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Posted by boizeau (My Page) on Sat, Dec 6, 08 at 13:17
I am really into hybrid wine grapes, and have been doing some breeding over the years. Wondered if anyone else making wine has toyed with a chance seedling or even made a cross of two wine grapes. My focus is mainly on muscat wine types, but I do have one red wine hybrid that has a flavor of Watermellon!
Don't know that it will be a market winner, but it is a decent flavored wine. |
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RE: hybrid grape wines
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I see that Millers Nurseries has several cross bred wine grapes.
One that interest me is their corit noir. It has
steuben as one parent.
They state that it makes a good "vinifera". I'm not sure what a vinifera type wine is. I cant find any and the definition is only "grape wine". |
RE: hybrid grape wines
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Vitis vinifera is the latin name given to European grapes.
Vitis labrusca, vitis riparia, and vitis rupestris are American grapes along with Muscadina rotundifolia. |
RE: hybrid grape wines
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| And in the early days of the US, they tried making wine from the non-European grapes and it was always disappointing. That's why they imported the vinifera. There were a few hybrids that got popular - Norton for example, but basically you are better off sticking with the vitis vinifera. |
RE: hybrid grape wines
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Most Gardeners, who do not live on the West Coast, have a climate that is either too hot or too cold or to humid to grow Vinifera Grapes, so the Research Stations in those areas have breeding programs in place for table and wine grapes, as well as a few private firms, nurseries etc., so it is not essential to use Vinifera for wine making, though that species has had a 200 year head start in development.
There are some very good wines made from hybrids now. |
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