🍇 Sheridan

Sheridan is a black-berried grape variety bred at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York (now Cornell AgriTech), in the United States. The international grape catalogue VIVC classes it as an interspecific crossing of Herbert and Worden, made in 1903 by S. A. Beach, and lists the synonyms New York 4272 and NY 4272. VIVC gives the breeder's institution as the Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University (code USA093).

Cornell's list of grape varieties named at the Geneva station records Sheridan with the release year 1921, the cross Herbert x Worden, the old New York number 4272 and blue fruit. The same list gives the variety Pontiac, released in 1922, with the same cross and the number 4265.

VIVC lists Sheridan both as a wine grape and as a table grape. It records complete seed formation, hermaphrodite flowers and SSR marker data. The variety is held in eight collections: BRA003, CAN058, DEU098, JPN 03, UKR039, USA 06, USA167 and ZAF 01. VIVC does not list it in the European Catalogue.

If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.