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  • From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberry grape
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:24:45 -0400

A 05:00 07.04.19 -0500, vous avez écrit :
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Now here's a grape that's popular in Italy as a dessert grape. In Italy it's known as "Uva Fragola" which translates to strawberry grape. According to an Italian freind that visits italy frequently told me that this grape taste more like a ripe strawberry.
A gardener in northern italy near Genova grows this grape. He mentioned that Strawberry grape is a hybrid between american and european grape. It's very vigorous and productive. Disease resistance as well, producing red color grapes. It's illegal to produce wine made from Strawberry Grape in Italy. I'm not sure why.
Here's a discription from a UK nursery source:
"STRAWBERRY GRAPE (also known as ‘Fragole’). This is an unusual variety, because its flavour is strawberry-like. The fruit is mauve and is very prolific either in greenhouse or indeed quite successful outside. Is a strong grower and makes good fruity wine."
Does anyone grow this grape in the US?


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Bass,
In Europe, wine making from hybrid varieties is forbidden - only pure vinifera vines are accepted.
Here is an article about the Isabelle grape, which is probably the one you enquire about.
Claude

>From http://www.stratsplace.com/hawkins/wgg.html
ISABELLA:
Moderately cold-resistant American labruscana grape grown on limited acreages in New York state for use as a tablegrape and in varietal and sparkling wine blends. ... Still grown in cooler regions of Italy and Australia, where it is named Fragola. Also found in eastern Europe under a variety of alias names, (such as Seksarda in Croatia, former province of Yugoslavia and as Izabella in Hungary and Georgia CIS). This historically significant variety has over fifty synonym names as a result of its post-phylloxera popularity in the late 19th century. Thought to be derived from a native Vitis Labrusca grape of N. America and an unknown european vinifera probably created by random pollination as a result of the 18th century attempts to establish European vines in the U.S. Reputedly discovered in Dorchester, N. Carolina around 1816 it was promoted by William R. Prince, an influential nursery owner established in Flushing, N.Y, and named after a famous "southern belle", the wife of Col. George Gibbs. Currently being selectively removed and replaced by varieties that lack the "grapey/foxy" taste and flavor of this grape although it still has its admirers. Modern winemaking techniques have succeeded in eradicating the agent responsible, resulting in a popular, strawberry/boysenbery-like flavored wine where those techniques are practiced. It is still grown in quantity in Brazil and other fungus prone regions of South America.



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