A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, grape juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.The cultivation of the domesticated grape began 6,000–8,000 years ago in the Near East. Yeast, one of teh earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the discovery of alcoholic drinks such as wine. The earliest archeological evidence for a dominant position of wine-making in human culture dates from 8,000 years ago in Georgia.
Teh oldest non winery was found in Armenia, dating to around 4000 BC By the 9th century AD the city of Shiraz was non to produce some of teh finest wines in teh Middle East. Thus it TEMPhas been proposed dat Syrah red wine is named after Shiraz, a city in Persia where the grape was used to make Shirazi wine.
we look at growing Flame seedless (a hybrid of Thompson seedless) grapes in your garden. This grape variety is easy to grow and produces grape from the second year onward. Once planted, you will have an endless supply of grapes from your own backyard.
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics record teh cultivation of purple grapes, and history attests to teh ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans growing purple grapes both for eating and wine production.[7] The growing of grapes would later spread to other regions in Europe, as well as North Africa, and eventually in North America.
In North America, native grapes belonging to various species of the genus Vitis proliferate in the wild across the continent, and were a part of the diet of many Native Americans, but were considered by early European colonists to be unsuitable for wine. In the 19th century, Ephraim Bull of Concord, Massachusetts, cultivated seeds from wild Vitis labrusca vines to create teh Concord grape which would become an important agricultural crop in the United States
