List of grape varieties
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
- Black Corinth
- Black Monukka
- Black Rose
- Cardinal
- Mazzarrone
- Red Corinth
- Red Globe
- Valencia
- Red Flame
- Richard Walden
White table grapes
- Agh Shani
- Calmeria
- Centennial
- Cotton Candy grapes
- Koshu
- Malingre Précoce
- Mazzarrone
- Moonballs
- Perlette
- Rozaki
- Shine Muscat
- Sugraone
- Sultana / Thompson Seedless
- Superior Seedless (Menindee Seedless)
- Valvin Muscat
- White Corinth
Vitis labrusca (wine and table)
Many commercial varieties commonly called labrusca are actually complex interspecies hybrids.
Wine grapes
Red table grapes
- Canadice
- Christmas Rose
- Crimson Seedless
- Einset
- Emperor
- Flame Seedless
- Reliance Seedless
- Rouge
- Ruby Roman
- Ruby Seedless
- Swenson Red
- Tudor Premium Red
- Suffolk Red
- Vanessa
- Yates
Purple/pink table grapes
- Alden
- Autumn Royal
- Beauty Seedless
- Bluebell
- Buffalo
- Concord
- Coronation
- Fantasy Seedless
- Glenora
- Jupiter
- Marroo
- Mars
- Niabell
- Ribier
- Steuben
- Van Buren
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)
- Big Red (grape)
- Black Beauty (grape)
- Black Fry
- Carlos (grape)
- Cowart
- Darlene (grape)
- Dixie Red
- Early Fry
- Fry (grape)
- Granny Val
- Higgins (grape)
- Hunt
- Hunter (grape)
- Ison's
- Janebell (grape)
- Janet (grape)
- Jumbo (grape)
- Late Fry
- Magnolia (grape)
- Muscadine
- Nesbit (grape)
- Noble
- Pam (grape)
- Pineapple (grape)
- Scarlet (grape)
- Scuppernong
- Southland
- Sugargate
- Supreme (grape)
- Summit (grape)
- Sweet Jenny
- Tara (grape)
- Triumph (grape)
- Rupestris St. George
Vitis aestivalis (wine)
Vitis mustangensis (table/wine/dyes)
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.
- Alexander
- Agawam
- Aurore
- Baco 22A (Baco blanc)
- Baco noir (Baco 1)
- Blanc du Bois
- Brianna
- Cabernet blanc
- Cabernet Cortis
- Cayuga White
- Chambourcin
- Chancellor
- Chardonel
- Chelois
- Corot noir
- Couderc noir
- Crimson Cabernet
- De Chaunac
- Edelweiss
- Elvira
- Esprit
- Flora (grape)
- Flot rouge
- Frontenac
- Goethe
- Herbert
- Kay Gray
- L'Acadie blanc
- L'Ambertille
- La Crescent
- La Crosse
- Léon Millot
- Louise Swenson
- Luci Kuhlmann
- Marechal Foch
- Marechal Joffre
- Marquette
- Massasoit
- Melody
- Merzling
- Noiret
- Norton / Cynthiana
- Onaka
- Orion
- Phoenix
- Plantet
- Prairie Star
- Ravat blanc / Ravat 6
- Ravat noir / Ravat 262
- Rayon d'Or
- Regent
- Rembrandt
- Requa
- Rondo
- Rosette
- Rougeon
- Royalty
- Rubired
- St. Croix
- St. Pepin
- Severny
- Solaris
- Sovereign Opal
- Traminette
- Triomphe d'Alsace
- Valvin muscat
- Vidal blanc
- Vignoles / Ravat 51
- Villard blanc
- Villard noir
- Zarya Severa
Vinifera hybrids (table)
- Boskoop Glory, Vitis vinifera x Vitis labrusca
- Honey Red
- Kyoho, Vitis vinifera x Vitis labrusca
- Pione, complex hybrid
- Rombough Seedless, Vitis labrusca x Vitis x Esprit
- Thomcord, Vitis vinifera x Vitis labrusca
Non-vinifera hybrids (table and wine)
- Beta, Vitis labrusca X Vitis riparia
- Cascade, complex hybrid
- Clinton, Vitis labrusca X Vitis riparia
- Bordo/Ives noir, probably Vitis labrusca X 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 X Vitis riparia X possibly Vitis vinifera
- Muscat bleu, complex hybrid
- Seyval blanc, complex hybrid
- Seyval noir, complex hybrid
Non-vinifera hybrids (rootstock)
- SO4, Vitis berlandieri Planch. X V. riparia Michx.
- 5BB, Vitis berlandieri Planch. X V. riparia Michx.
- 5C, Vitis berlandieri Planch. X V. riparia Michx.
- 110R, V. berlandieri x V. rupestris
- 1616 Couderc, Vitis solonis x V. riparia
- Harmony, ((V. riparia x V. labrusca) x V. vinifera) x Vitis champinii
- 8909-05, Vitis rupestris 'A. de Serres' x Vitis rotundifolia 'Cowart'
- 3309 C, V. riparia x V. rupestris
See also
- Annual growth cycle of grapevines
- Hybrid grape
- International variety
- Lists of cultivars
- Vitis 'Ornamental Grape', a nonflowering and nonfruiting variety
Notes
References
Further reading
- Robinson, Jancis (2002). Vines, Grapes and Wines. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 1-857-32999-6.
- Clarke, Oz (2001). Grapes and Wines. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-85726-2.
External links
- National Grape Registry (NGR)
- PlantGrape (catalogue of vines grown in France: varieties, rootstocks, clones)
- Wine varietal directory
- Most common varietal wines
- Grape varieties and Common Blends
- Grape Growers Handbook