🍇 Delaware
Red-skinned wine and table grape from the United States; 28 synonyms in VIVC.
Delaware 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 the breeder, its pedigree is (Vitis labrusca × Vitis aestivalis) × Vitis vinifera; VIVC does not mark it as confirmed by DNA markers. VIVC names A. Thompson and P. Provost as the breeders.
According to VIVC, it covered 70 ha in Korea (1981). Samples of the variety are kept in 25 collections.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 28 synonyms for it, among them Delavar, Delawara and French Grape, 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
🍇 Delaware → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
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- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Offspring
- 🍇 Berckmans, 🍇 Moyer, 🍇 Early Victor, 🍇 Nectar, 🍇 Croton, 🍇 Amos, 🍇 Brilliant, 🍇 Jewel, 🍇 Walter
- Related to
- 🌿 Vitis vinifera
Frequently asked questions
Where does Delaware come from?
According to VIVC, from the United States. VIVC names A. Thompson and P. Provost as the breeders.
What are the parents of Delaware?
According to the breeder, its pedigree is (Vitis labrusca × Vitis aestivalis) × Vitis vinifera; VIVC does not mark it as confirmed by DNA markers.
Under what other names is Delaware known?
VIVC lists 28 synonyms for it, among them Delavar, Delawara and French Grape, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🍇 Brilliant — An American red-berried hybrid by T. V. Munson.
- 🍇 Moyer — An early red table hybrid from Canada, bred around 1880; Hedrick described it as an early Delaware for cold regions.
- 🍇 Berckmans — An American hybrid with pink berries, a descendant of Delaware and Clinton.
- 🍇 Early Victor — A dark-berried hybrid for wine and the table, bred in the USA in 1871.
- 🍇 Nectar — A dark-berried hybrid for wine and eating, bred in the USA in 1888.
Similar
🍇 Headlight · 🍇 Hidalgo · 🍇 Manito · 🍇 Emily · 🍇 Lindley · 🍇 Winchell
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Delaware
- VIVC: area statistics DELAWARE
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata