Cultivars
'Alicante Bouchet'
This is an excellent ornamental vine with intense crimson foliage during autumn.

'Albany Surprise'
The fruit from this plant produces sweet white table grapes.

'Cabernet Sauvignon'
The black grapes produce some of the best red wines.

'Chardonnay'
The grapes from this plant produce popular white wines.

'Ganzin Glory'
This is an ornamental vine with excellent autumn foliage in crimson.

' Merlot'
The grapes produce black wine that is sometimes mixed with 'Cabernet Sauvignon'.

' Muller Thurgau'
A white wine grape that is used for production wines.

'Pinot Noir'
This grape produces red wine and the peeled grapes are fermented to produce champagne. Pink champagne is a result of some skin contact during production.

'Purpurea'
This is an ornamental vine with excellent crimson leaves during autumn.

'Riesling'
This white grape is responsible for many wines depending on the ripeness of the fruit when processed. It is the main variety used in German vineyards.

'Schiava Grossa'
This greenhouse vine produces black table grapes.

'Semillon'
The grapes from this vine produce white wines.

'Shiraz'
This black wine grape is widely grown in Australia.

Vitaceae
Grapevine and Virginia Family
This dicotyledon family consists or 12 genera that are mainly woody lianas with leaf opposite tendrils sometimes ending in discoid suckers and are rarely shrubs or small trees.

Distribution
This family of plants is mainly found in subtropical, tropical and warm temperate regions in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Diagnostic Features
The leavesare simple or compound with stipules and arranged alternately with lobed or coarsely dentate margins rarely entire.

The small actinomorphic flowersare bisexual or rarely unisexual and are arranged racemes or compound-cymose opposite the leaves or terminally. There are 3-5 connate sepals that form a tube and the (3); 4 to 5 free petals are valvate and commonly deciduous.

There are 3-5 small stamens that are arranged oppositely the petals. The ovary is superiorwith 2 -carpels and containing 2-locules with 2-ovules per locule. The simple style has a tiny stigma.

The fruitis a berry containing 1 to 4 seeds.

Note
The grapevine is cultivated throughout the world for wine, table grapes, dried fruit, and juice and over 6.5 million hectares are under cultivation with over 50% produced in Europe. Other genuses are grown as ornamentals.

This plant toleratesbetween USDAzones 6a to 10a and grows to 20m (60 ft)
Fahrenheit      -10şto 35şF
These temperatures represent thelowestaverage.
Celsius     -20.6şto 1.6şC

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