I am looking on several hundred acres of family land for wild grapes. I have found this growing wild. I have yet to harvest it, but I am ...Read Moreinterested in using what juice I can get with muscadine and making a wine. I have noticed that last year there were A LOT more clusters than there are this year (2014).
After much research, I've concluded this is the grape that is so widespread in my area. Texas has 13 or 14 varieties of native grapes and...Read More the rootstock of some (including sand grape) were used to cure the phylloxera plague in 19th century Europe, where most of the vineyards were destroyed. Native Texas grapes are resistant. Without those native Texas rootstock, there would be no V. vinifera wine industry in Europe today. From what I've read elsewhere, it's more commonly called "winter grape" than "summer grape" as on this site. This is supposedly because the fruit ripens more toward winter. They have been ripening here for at least the last month and there are many freshly ripened ones still on the vines and it's now mid October. I also read elsewhere that you can see "spider webs" on the back of the leaf under slight magnification and I did find this on the leaves. I'll be uploading pics. The grapes are the size of a sweet pea, sometimes slightly larger and the taste is mildly tart and semi-sweet and not much juice. There are one to three seeds per grape.
I am looking on several hundred acres of family land for wild grapes. I have found this growing wild. I have yet to harvest it, but I am ...Read More
After much research, I've concluded this is the grape that is so widespread in my area. Texas has 13 or 14 varieties of native grapes and...Read More