🍇 Catawba
Red-skinned wine and table grape from the United States; parents Vitis labrusca × Semillon; 41 synonyms in VIVC.
Catawba is a red-skinned wine and table grape from the United States. VIVC classes it as an interspecific hybrid rather than a pure Vitis vinifera variety.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Vitis labrusca and Semillon. The breeder had given the pedigree as Vitis labrusca × Vitis vinifera.
According to VIVC, it covered 1,291 ha in Canada (2006) and 12 ha in South Africa (1992). Samples of the variety are kept in 21 collections.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 41 synonyms for it, among them Arkansas, Catalan and Catowba Tokay, so the same grape can turn up under other names. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Catawba → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Related to
- 🍷 Sparkling wine, 🍷 Sweet wine
- Offspring
- 🍇 Concord, 🍇 Ulster, 🍇 Woodruff, 🍇 Diana, 🍇 Iona
- Parents
- 🍇 Vitis labrusca, 🍇 Sémillon
Frequently asked questions
Where does Catawba come from?
According to VIVC, from the United States.
What are the parents of Catawba?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Vitis labrusca and Semillon. The breeder had given the pedigree as Vitis labrusca × Vitis vinifera.
Under what other names is Catawba known?
VIVC lists 41 synonyms for it, among them Arkansas, Catalan and Catowba Tokay, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🍇 Sémillon — A white grape from France; the main grape of sweet Sauternes, where the berries are picked by hand in several passes.
- 🍷 Sparkling wine — Four EU categories with at least 3 bar of carbon dioxide; traditional, tank and ancestral methods; Champagne, Cava, Prosecco.
- 🍇 Concord — An American grape bred by Ephraim Bull around 1849: Catawba × Vitis labrusca; 34,000 ha in the US (2015), the basis of grape juice and jelly.
- 🍇 Diana — A red-berried American grape from 1834, a seedling of Catawba.
- 🍇 Iona — An American grape from 1855, a Catawba seedling with red berries.
Similar
🍇 Diamond · 🍇 Lady · 🍇 Lady Washington · 🍇 Colerain · 🍇 Pocklington · 🍇 Belvidere
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Catawba
- VIVC: area statistics CATAWBA
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata