Grapes are grown in two types: technical varieties and canteens. Of the first, wines, juices, concentrates, cognacs, soft drinks, marinades, jams are produced and dried grapes (kishmish, raisins, geese) are produced, and the latter are used for unprocessed consumption. Technical grades of grapes are often called wine, as they are mainly used for making wines.
In this article we will get acquainted, what sorts of grapes are used for making what brands of wines.
Features of wine grape varieties
The distinctive features of these varieties are:
- bunch structure (small size, but more dense);
- size of berries (smaller);
- high concentration of juice in the berry (up to 85% of the mass).
The quality and brand of the product (wine, champagne, etc.) depends on the color, acidity and sugar content of the material used (grape berries).
The best wine grape varieties that have spread throughout the world are: Aligote, Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet-Sauvignon, Muscat white and pink, Saperavi, Traminer, Rkatsiteli. Winemakers produce wine materials for champagne, white and red dining rooms, dessert and strong wines of high quality.
Everyone knows that grapes primarily differ in color, and therefore the product also differs from the white grape varieties: white wines, red ones from red ones.
The main varieties for making red wine:
- Bastardo Magarachsky - vintage wine "Bastardo";
- 40 years of October;
- Saperavi and Saperavi North are Georgian wines that require long aging;
- Tavrida;
- Golubok - "Cahors";
- Ruby maharacha;
- Gurzuf pink - pink wines;
- Cabernet Dors and Cabernet Jura;
- Muscat Donskoy and Muscat Blau;
- Medina - dry wines;
- Livadia black;
- Cabernet Sauvignon - red dining rooms, dessert and strong wines, for example "Oksamit Ukrainy" and "Bolgradske dessert";
- Cabernet Sauvignon is high - Cabernet Myshako, Cabernet Tamani, Southern Night, Black Eyes.
The main grape varieties for making white wine:
- Aligot - champagne, table wines: different kinds of "Aligote", "Perlina Stepu";
- Muscat Ottonel - semi-dry and semisweet wines, "Muscat amber";
- Chardonnay - the main variety for champagne and make white Burgundy wines: "Cote de Bon", "Chablis", "Cat Chalonnese", "Pouilly Fuisise";
- Riesling - table wines of the brand "Riesling";
- Magarach, Citronny Magarach, Gift of Magarach, Firstborn of Magarach;
- Sauvignon Blanc - sweet wines of Sothern, Barsaka, dry Gravel, Sancerre, Pouilly-fumé;
- Bianco;
- Feteasca;
- Terbash;
- Muscat steady;
- Viorica;
- Muscat Holodrigi;
- Muscadel or Pedro Jimenez of the Crimean;
- Muscat of Odessa;
- Zigerebe.
Separately, it should be said about the production of wine from the Moldova grapes, which most winegrowers refer to table varieties. From it a fine dry wine "Moldova Fanagoria" is made.
But from grapes of Isabella, considered a wine grade, making wine for sale in Europe and the US is prohibited. This is due to the fact that in the process of making wine from this grapes, it produces a lot of toxic substance - methanol. But this does not apply to getting pasteurized juice from Isabella. Although on the territory of some countries, at home, they continue to make from this grape variety a fine table wine.
Knowing what sorts of grapes are made of this or that wine, you can, using simple adaptations and growing the desired variety in your own area, make a delicious home-made wine.