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Tempranillo
Tempranillo (also Tinta del País, Tinto Fino, Aragonés) is Spain's early-ripening black wine grape, backbone of Rioja and Ribera del Duero, about 231,000 ha worldwide, first documented in 1513, drought-sensitive.
Viognier
Viognier is an aromatic white wine grape from the northern Rhône, sole variety of the Condrieu AOC. Nearly extinct in 1965 (8 ha), it recovered to over 16,000 hectares worldwide; relative of Syrah via Mondeuse blanche.
Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca, the fox grape, is a North American grapevine native from southeastern Canada to the eastern USA, ancestor of Concord, Catawba, and Niagara; slipskin berries with foxy methyl anthranilate flavor and fungal disease resistance useful in breeding.
Vitis rotundifolia
Vitis rotundifolia, the muscadine grape (also Muscadinia rotundifolia, scuppernong), is a southeastern U.S. grapevine with 2n=40 chromosomes, thick-skinned bronze to purple berries, and resistance to Pierce's disease and phylloxera.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel, also called Primitivo in Italy and Tribidrag or Crljenak Kastelanski in Croatia, is a red wine grape genetically identical across all three names. It is California's third most planted winegrape, first documented by name in Boston in 1832.