He was right about labrusca grapes; they had had their day.

But labrusca is not where this state's leading-edge vintners are pointed.

By the way, don't knock labrusca wines for tasting like jam and soda pop.

To make labrusca wines more palatable, they are often cut with water, California wine or grape juice concentrate.

The labrusca vines were impervious to the bug.

Evan planted several varieties of Vitis labrusca there.

Concord grapes and other Vitis labrusca grapes are grown in the region as well.

Made from labrusca grapes, its aroma is unusual, and is combined with a large amount of residual sugar.

It still is, to a lesser degree, but today much of the labrusca tonnage winds up in wine coolers, including Canandaigua's.

He conceded that more tender loving care is needed for the European varietals than for hybrids or labrusca.

It is Vitis Labrusca which lends the wine its characteristic "strawberry" flavouring.

Most are self-fertile, unlike wild Vitis labrusca.

There is ample evidence that the labrusca was growing wild in North America centuries before the Europeans discovered the continent.

It is thought to be a hybrid between Vitis vinifera and Vitis labrusca.

Yes, labrusca grapes, which stereotyped New York State as America's sweet-wine capital, are still around.

He estimated that New Jersey's production was now 70 percent hybrid, 25 percent vinifera and 5 percent labrusca.

But tasting what some of these same vintners are doing with labrusca, an American native grape species, as well as hybrids can be absolutely eye-opening.

This promoted another indigenous agricultural item of the American Colonies, the Vitis labrusca grapes.

Many consider the likely male parent to have been Catawba, itself probably half Vitis labrusca, which Bull had growing nearby.

Noah, its other parent, is itself a cross of Vitis labrusca and Vitis riparia.

The Catawba has the characteristic labrusca "slip-skin" which is thick but slides easily off between the fingers, leaving the pulp intact.

Working together, French and American entomologists learned to graft the vinifera vines onto the phylloxera-resistant labrusca roots.

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Anthony "Boom" Labrusca is a Filipino actor.

Each year, he makes a total of about 15,000 cases of 15 different wines, all from French-American hybrids and native grapes of the labrusca species.