Isabella (grape)
Isabella is a red grape that has its origin in North America. It is a direct producer and obtained during the phylloxera disaster of great importance.
Description
The vine is vigorous and prolific. It has high fungus and phylloxera resistance and requires very little fertilizer. She gets on well with tropical and subtropical conditions. Isabella brings strong woolly shoot tips produced with a slight approach of carmine. Your medium-sized leaves are three-lobed with an elongated, wedge-shaped middle lobe. The top of the leaves is dark green. At the bottom they are grayish white and extremely woolly to tomentose. The petiole of the leaves has a V-shape and is closed to overlapping. The leaf margin has only a slight perforation.
The large, loose- grapes are mostly cylindrical to conical and simply shouldered. Your medium-sized, oval berries are thick- deep black and very fragrant. The berry color is emerging even before the actual maturity. Their taste has a pronounced Fox - tone ( strawberry flavor ). Another characteristic is that the grapes do not ripen at the same time.
Race and History
Isabella is an American hybrid of Vitis labrusca x Vitis vinifera or a selection of Vitis labrusca.
According to most sources, it is a hybrid vine Vitis labrusca of the American wild grape and an unspecified Vitis vinifera varieties. The Ampelograph Rudolf Goethe other hand, is of the opinion that it is a direct selection of Vitis labrusca and therefore would not be a hybrid vine. This is also supported by the fact that, as described for Vitis labrusca, was early on under the same name a selection of Vitis labrusca vines.
The name Isabella is expected to fall on the vine grower William R. Prince on Long Iceland. He received from Mrs. Isabella Gibbs grapevines and used this for his breeding. A resulting from this grape variety was named by the vine growers after the first name of Mrs. Isabella Gibbs. According to their statement, the vines should come from the town of Dorchester in South Carolina. The origin of South Carolina is doubted today. In 1816 the grape was first described. Already in 1820 came the grape to France and the brothers Baumann from the Alsatian Boll hamlet to Germany.
Use
When pressing, Isabella is a slimy must, which can be fermented only with difficulty. This reduces the yield and complicates the production of wine in addition to the non-contemporaneous maturity in addition. The wines are bright red and have an intense, reminiscent of artificial strawberry flavor Fox sound. Most grapes are used as table grapes. When it comes to processing, they are often, but occasionally made into grape juice or light rosé sparkling wine.
After the dramatic failure of European vines by phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, more resistant than the previously predominantly grape varieties have been sought. Consequently, Isabella was being imported along with other varietals coming from America to Europe and cultivated. So it was spread all over Europe. This is also where the large number of more than 50 synonyms.
Greater importance has the vine still in the CIS countries, primarily here in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, as well as in Switzerland, Portugal and on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Small stocks also exist in Austria, Italy and France. In Burgenland, it is often used for local wine specialty Uhudler. However, all red direct carriers are in Austria often mistakenly referred to as Isabella. In northeastern Italy, a wine named Fragolino is obtained from it. In the Italian -speaking countries there under the name of Uva fragola the same confusion as in Austria.
In New Zealand, it was planted because of their resistance to phylloxera. There it was in 1960 the most common variety. Isabella matures, even under tropical conditions and is therefore often cultivated in the countries of the New World, such as in Brazil, Uruguay, Japan, India and the Indonesian Bali.
The spread worldwide is estimated at about 70,000 hectares under vine. More than a quarter of this stock is based in Brazil.
When widespread in India Bangalore Blue grape variety is probably a selection of the grape Isabella. On the vine Carter and York -Madeira seedlings are involved by Isabella.
Synonyms
Albany, Albany Surprise, Alexander, American, Arkansas Grape, Black Cape, Captraube, Christie's improved isabella, Constantia, Constanzia, strawberry grape, Frutilla (Uruguay ), Gros Framboise, Isabelle, Isabellinha (Brazil), Izabella, Odessa ( CIS countries ), Paign 's Isabella, Payne 's early, Raisin dui cap, Raisin fraise, Sainte -Hélène, Schuykill, Seksarda, Starwberry grape, uva americana (Portugal ), Uva fragola, Woodward;