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List of grape varieties

List of grape varieties is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of grape varieties rather than just read about it. In short: This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species, including those unimportant to agriculture, see Vitis.

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Reference excerpt

This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species, including those unimportant to agriculture, see Vitis. The term grape variety refers to cultivars (rather than the botanical varieties that must be named according to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants).

Single-species grapes While some of the grapes in this list are hybrids, they are hybridized within a single species. For those grapes hybridized across species, known as interspecific hybrids, see the section on multispecies hybrid grapes below.

Vitis vinifera (wine)

Red grapes

White grapes

Rose grapes

Vitis vinifera (table)

Red table grapes

White table grapes

Vitis labrusca (wine and table) Many commercial varieties commonly called labrusca are actually complex interspecies hybrids.

Wine grapes

Red table grapes

Purple/pink table grapes

Varied/other

Vitis riparia (wine grape rootstock and hybridization source) Riparia Gloire Riparia Grand Glabre Riparia Scribner Riparia Martin Riparia 89 Americas

Vitis rotundifolia (table and wine)

Vitis rupestris Rupestris St. George

Vitis aestivalis (wine) Black Spanish

Vitis mustangensis (table/wine/dyes) Mustang Grape

Multispecies hybrid grapes

Vinifera hybrids (wine) Hybrid grape varieties (see Hybrid grapes) or "hybrids" is, in fact, the popular term for a subset of what are properly known as hybrids, specifically crossings between one species of the genus Vitis and another. The scientific definition of a hybrid grape is any crossing (intra- or inter-specific) of two grape varieties. In keeping with the popular definition, however, the ones listed below are inter-specific hybrids where one parent is a European grape. Most of these are complex mixtures of three or more species and all parents are not always clearly known.

Vinifera hybrids (table) Boskoop Glory, Vitis vinifera × Vitis labrusca Honey Red Kyoho, Vitis vinifera × Vitis labrusca Pione, complex hybrid Rombough Seedless, Vitis labrusca × Vitis × Esprit Thomcord, Vitis vinifera × Vitis labrusca

Non-vinifera hybrids (table and wine) Beta, Vitis labrusca × Vitis riparia Cascade, complex hybrid Clinton, Vitis labrusca × Vitis riparia Bordo/Ives noir, probably Vitis labrusca × Vitis aestivalis Jaeger 70, Vitis aestivalis and Vitis rupestris L'Acadie blanc, complex hybrid Landal noir, complex hybrid Landot noir, complex hybrid Minnesota 78, Vitis labrusca × Vitis riparia × possibly Vitis vinifera Muscat bleu, complex hybrid Seyval blanc, complex hybrid Seyval noir, complex hybrid

Non-vinifera hybrids (rootstock) SO4, Vitis berlandieri Planch. × V. riparia Michx. 5BB, Vitis berlandieri Planch. × V. riparia Michx. 5C, Vitis berlandieri Planch. × V. riparia Michx. 110R, V. berlandieri × V. rupestris 1616 Couderc, Vitis solonis × V. riparia Harmony, ((V. riparia × V. labrusca) × V. vinifera) × Vitis champinii 8909-05, Vitis rupestris 'A. de Serres' × Vitis rotundifolia 'Cowart' 3309 C, V. riparia × V. rupestris

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of grape varieties

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of grape varieties ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of grape varieties

In research: List of grape varieties appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of grape varieties in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of grape varieties is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Grape varieties, Lists of cultivars, Wine-related lists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for List of grape varieties outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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