Grapevines

Can you make a cosmo, a grape cosmo, 'cause they're cosmopolitan? I don't remember what cosmopolitan means in this context.

Um, the genus name for this is, uh, Vitis, that is of the family Vit- Vitaceae.

Uh, that is the grape family.

So the grape is the fruit that comes from the vine, but also it's the vine.

What did do well were hybrids, híbridos productores directos, HPD, direct producer hybrids.

Since nearly half the Vitis american graphs failed after planting, they decided to plant these hybrids.

The problem actually turned out that these hybrids that they thought were so great were actually susceptible to phylloxera, so it didn't solve any problems.

And again, it wasn't, like, a huge disaster because of the sand, but over the next couple of decades, the hybrids became the majority of vines.

It is cheating.

Um, well, I guess, so what was I seeing recently a lot of? Vitis coignetii.

What are you...

Oh, sorry.

I've just written Vitis coignetii.

Oh, that's all right.

[laughs]

But it is unusual.

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this crossing of Vitis vinifera with, with, uh, whether it's American Vitis libru- labrusca or, or a- Asian forms of Vitis.

We are more familiar with them because they were cool climate varieties that could ripen in our damper, cooler climate here in the UK.

Grape varieties such as Solaris or Regent or Bacchus.