Key facts
- Species
- Vitis vinifera
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- grape variety
- Image
- Muscat blanc et Muscat noir by JM Rosier.jpg
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- Commons category
- Muscat (cépage)
- found in taxon
- Vitis vinifera
- time of earliest written record
- 1230-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
White Muscat – early ripening "July" variety
The Muscat family of grapes includes over 200 grape varieties belonging to the Vitis vinifera species that have been used in wine production and as raisin and table grapes around the globe for many centuries. Their colors range from white (such as Muscat Ottonel), to yellow (Moscato Giallo), to pink (Moscato Rosa del Trentino) to near black (Muscat Hamburg). Muscat grapes and wines almost always have a pronounced floral aroma. The breadth and number of varieties of Muscat suggest that it is perhaps the oldest domesticated grape variety, and there are theories that most families within the Vitis vinifera grape variety are descended from the Muscat variety.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “muscat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.