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• n  common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes

• Its new vintner, who grows both hybrids and vinifera, is Mark Miller, 58, a former magazine illustrator.
• In New York acreage planted with vinifera grapes -- meaning the classical European varietals -- has vaulted from 349 to 2,135 since 1980.
• The answer is that the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers.

• vinifera grape
• common grape vine
• Vitis vinifera

News & Articles

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• Grapes from the vineyard to the winery
  Harvest is here, well almost here in some cases. Texas just harvested a great crop of Blanc du Bois grapes and will be harvesting its vitis vinifera classic grapes along with California.
  Aug. 9, 2013 - Greater Houston Weekly
• Love of grapes, wine comes to fruition at Va. vineyards
  More than 150 years before California had vineyards, settlers in Jamestown, Va., were crushing grapes.And by the time Father Junipero Serra brought the Mission grape to San Diego, Thomas Jefferson was planting Monticello with European vinifera.For the next...
  Aug. 7, 2013 - Charleston Daily Mail

Quotes

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• Ted Strickland in Coshocton Tribune
  Today's Ohio wines are better than ever,Strickland said. "Ohio vineyards and winemakers produce a wide array of fine wines to please every consumer's palate. These wines include award-winning vinifera and hybrid table wines, exciting...