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Plant

Grape

Vitis vinifera

Also known as: Vitis vinifera

A woody perennial vine in the family Vitaceae — domesticated in the Caucasus and the Levant ~8,000 years ago. The substrate of wine, the world's oldest documented fermented beverage. The species and the practice of viticulture spread with Mediterranean civilization; the global production today is split between wine grapes, table grapes, raisins, and juice. Few crops have been as culturally and economically generative across continents over millennia.

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Scientific

Vitis vinifera is one of dozens of Vitis species, but accounts for the overwhelming majority of cultivated wine and table grapes. North American Vitis species (V. labrusca, V. riparia) became globally important in the late 19th century when their rootstock saved European viticulture from phylloxera — an American root-aphid that nearly destroyed V. vinifera across Europe in the 1870s–1890s. Modern wine grapes are V. vinifera scions grafted onto American rootstock.

Cultural and historical

The earliest wine-making evidence (8,000-year-old jars in Georgia, the Caucasus) establishes wine as one of humanity’s oldest engineered beverages. The Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans spread viticulture across the Mediterranean; medieval monasteries preserved and refined techniques; the modern global wine industry maps the colonial-period diffusion (New World wine regions in [[berkeley|California]], Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia).

Table grapes and raisins were equally important historically — the Roman uva passa and the Middle Eastern zabib are documented millennia old.

Global production

Top producers: China, Italy, France, Spain, USA.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Shares approach with: [[olive]] · [[almond]] · [[wheat]] · [[tomato]] · [[tea]]
  • Member of: [[plants]] · [[mediterranean-ancient-orchard]] · [[seven-species-of-israel]]
  • Cousin of: [[wild-grape]]
  • Grown by: [[benjamin-vineyards]] · [[buried-farm-vineyard-and-orchard]] · [[country-mill]] · [[daisy-creek-vineyard]] · [[dover-vineyards]] · [[rocklands-farm]] · [[russell-orchards-farm-and-winery]] · [[spencer-farm]]
  • Produced by: [[cnpo-terra-comercio-de-frutas-ltda-sao-paulo-sp]]

Sources

  • FAO Crop Statistics
  • Wikipedia — Grape

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Farms and nurseries in the 0mn1.one directory that grow grape. Each is a real working operation — visit, buy from, learn from.

Benjamin Vineyards

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Benjamin Vineyards — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Buried Farm Vineyard and Orchard

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Buried Farm Vineyard and Orchard — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Country Mill

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Country Mill — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Daisy Creek vineyard

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Daisy Creek vineyard — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Dover vineyards

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Dover vineyards — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Rocklands Farm Winery

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Rocklands Farm Winery is a 34-acre family-owned working farm and winery in Poolesville, MD (Montgomery County), founded 2010. Low-intervention, handcrafted wines from Maryland and Mid-Atlantic fruit; Slow Food DC affiliated.

Russell Orchards Farm and Winery

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Russell Orchards Farm and Winery — a farm verified in OpenStreetMap. See [[farm]] for the directory's editorial position; this entry may also operate retail surfaces (farm stand, CSA, farmers-market) that should be added as separate relations.

Spencer Farm

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An Indiana farm in Noblesville running two distinct operations on the same property: a berry farm with you-pick fields and farm market, and a vineyard + winery housed in a restored 1883 farmhouse that opened as a working winery in October 2019. The vineyard sits in an outdoor event space among the vines.

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Scientific

grows

substrate of

  • Mediterranean Basin Vitis vinifera domestication in the southern Caucasus and eastern Mediterranean, spread across the basin by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans

Practical

produces

Cultural

shares approach with

  • Pomegranate Seven-species kin; both fertility-and-abundance symbols across Mediterranean, Persian, and biblical traditions.

General

shares approach with

  • Olive auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
  • Opium poppy auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated

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