🍇 Magarach 417

Magarach 417 is a white table grape variety bred at the Magarach National Institute of Vine and Wine in Yalta (Crimea, Ukraine; the peninsula has been temporarily occupied since 2014). It belongs to the European species Vitis vinifera. According to the breeder's data cited in the VIVC catalogue, its parents are Moscato Violetto (Muscat Rouge de Madère) and Khalili Belyi; this pedigree has not been checked with DNA markers.

The variety became a parent of another release from the same institute, Sverkhrannii Bessemyannyi, obtained from the cross Magarach 417 × Magarach 653; the second parent, according to the offspring's VIVC passport, comes from Madeleine Angevine and Ak Yakdona. The variety has no synonyms, the passport gives no years of crossing, and VIVC names no collection that holds it.

Why it matters to you. Magarach 417 is a link in the breeding work of the Ukrainian Magarach institute: from a Muscat parent to a variety named Sverkhrannii Bessemyannyi (very early seedless). If you study Crimean table grape breeding, this variety helps trace the pedigree. And the lack of collection samples in VIVC means that the fate of Magarach 417 is little known today.