What: The common name for Vitis coignetiae — crimson glory vine — tells it all. It is indeed glorious when clothed in its large crimson autumnal garb. Its leaves are very large, often to a foot across ...

Hybrid grapes are becoming more common in winemaking, but what are they? Hybridization is the process of creating a new grape variety by combining two other varieties, usually through the grafting of ...

A few years ago I was looking for a seedless table grape to plant at my home, and found Raintree Nursery’s description of a cross between Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera called ‘Einset.’ Here’s what ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1990), pp. 121-126 (6 pages) Six-year-old vines of cv. Sangiovese, trained to Guyot, were treated with either 1% and 2.5% Hydrogen cyanamide seven, ...

I LATELY received from a neighbour a vine-leaf, taken from his own garden, exhibiting the uncommon phenomenon known as “autophyllogeny.” A small green leaf had arisen from the midrib, near the apex of ...

First it was pet turtles and now it’s wine grapes—I just can’t stop thinking about what it means to be native. The United States ferments 700 million gallons of wine each year, most of it from the ...