🍇 Mavrud
Dark-skinned wine grape from Bulgaria; 20 synonyms in VIVC.
Mavrud is a dark-skinned wine grape from Bulgaria.
VIVC gives no parents for it.
According to VIVC, it covered 1,709 ha in Bulgaria (2009). Samples of the variety are kept in 15 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 20 synonyms for it, among them Kachivela, Kacivela and Karvouniaris, 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
🍇 Mavrud → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- What is made from it
- 🥃 Karnobat Grape Rakia (Karnobatska grozdova rakya), 🥃 Burgas Muscat Rakia (Bourgaska Muscatova rakya), 🥃 Pomorie Grape Rakia (Pomoriyska grozdova rakya)
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Bulgarian wine
- Where it grows
- 📍 Thracian Lowland, 📍 Sakar, 📍 Asenovgrad
- Main grape in
- 📍 Asenovgrad, 📜 Plovdiv, 📜 Perushtitsa, 📍 Thracian Lowland
- Offspring
- 🍇 Buket, 🍇 Trakiyska Slava
Frequently asked questions
Where does Mavrud come from?
According to VIVC, from Bulgaria.
What are the parents of Mavrud?
VIVC gives no parents for it.
Under what other names is Mavrud known?
VIVC lists 20 synonyms for it, among them Kachivela, Kacivela and Karvouniaris, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Bulgarian wine — Wine of Bulgaria: 31,234 ha of vines in 2025, two regional PGIs, the Danube Plain and the Thracian Lowland, and 52 PDOs.
- 📍 Thracian Lowland — A plain in southern Bulgaria between the Stara Planina and the Rhodopes; a PGI regional wine whose zone covers almost the whole south of the country.
- 🥃 Burgas Muscat Rakia (Bourgaska Muscatova rakya) — Bulgarian wine spirit with an EU GI from Burgas Province: Muscat aroma, at least 6 months in oak, 40% vol.
- 🍇 Buket — A Bulgarian red grape bred in 1951 from Mavrud and Pinot Noir; it gives deeply coloured, extract-rich wines.
- 📍 Asenovgrad — A town long associated with Mavrud.
Similar
🍇 Misket Cherven · 🍇 Pamid · 🍇 Rubin · 🍇 Storgoziya · 🍇 Rusalka · 🍇 Sungurlarski Biser
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Mavrud
- VIVC: area statistics MAVRUD
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata