WORLD’S GRAPES - Demystifying "The Vine"

WORLD’S GRAPES

WHAT ARE WORLDS GRAPES?

The Worlds Grapes Chapter of DtheV.Com is My Collection of All the Grapes I Have Found and Classified. As a Un-Certified Wine-Nerd I Have a Great Interest In All of the Grapes of the Wine World. I Spend Time and Energy Searching and Quantifying New Grapes For My Personal Understanding and the Greater Understanding of Other Students of the Wine World Who Are Paying Attention to Indigenous and Rare Grapes.

DISSERTATION– A Thesis or Study On a Particular Subject, Usually Written as a Requirement to a Higher Learning Level, or Acceptance Within a Pretentious Industry.

MY WINE DISSERTATION~

“I Want to Disprove the Theory or Wine Dogma That There Are Over 10,000 Grapes Varieties.”
- I Want to Discover, Evaluate, Catalog and Study the Worlds Grapes, While Bringing Attention to the Fact That There Are Not +10,000 Different Grapes Varieties. As a Passionate Ampelographer I Spend Hours Each Day Looking For New Varieties. I Want to Demystify and Promote Historical Significance and Genetic Lineage of All the Worlds Grapes. If You Google “How Many Grape Varieties Are There?” The Answer is 10,000. This is Wine “Dogma”, and A lot of Wine Wine Experts Are Pushing it. There Once Could Have Been More Varieties, “Maybe”. We Will Never Know. Between Viticultural Calamities Such and Phylloxera and Powdery Mildew and Human Intervention Such Viticulture Monoculture and Urban Sprawl the Past Two Centuries a Lot of Varieties Have Died Off. To My Knowledge There is No Complete List of the Grapes of the World Besides My World’s Grapes Section In DtheV.Com.

Number of Grape Varieties “Experts Thinks Exist”… +10,000
Number of Grape Varieties “I Thinks Exist”… 3,500-ish
Number of Grape Varieties I’ve “Researched and Logged”… 2,283
Number of Grape Varieties I’ve “Tried and Evaluated”… 234

“I Demystify the Entire World of Grapes From Abaajiche to Zweigelt.”

ASSOCIATIONS~ ~Vine Century Club~
- Mission~ The Wine Century Club is For Adventurous Wine Lovers Worldwide. If You’ve Tasted at Least 100 Different Grape Varieties, Your’re Qualified to Become a Memeber. If You Havent’t Tried 100 Different Grape Varieties, But Are Interested In the Concept, Your’re Welcome to All of Our Events. Please Join Us In Promoting the Awareness of Uncommon Wine Grape Varieties.

ASSOCIATIONS~ ~Vitis International Variety Catalogue VIVC~
- Mission~ Documentation of the Grape Genetic Resources and Facilitation With Regard to the Exchange of Grape Material Information.

WINE & PHILOSOPHY? –“CONTENTIOUS WINE ISSUE!” “10,000 Grape Varieties?”
- NO…“The Wine World Generally Accepts That There’s Over 10,000 Grape Varieties But Are There Really? As of 2023 I Can Only Find, and Classify 2,281 Different Grapevines Grown Around the World. If Some Organization Can’t Come Up With an Official List or Un-Official List of All the Different Grapes Varieties We Should Continue to Remain Skeptical. In the Meanwhile My “Grapes of the World” Catalog On DtheV.com Should Continue to Be Seen the “Benchmark” and I Will Use My Estimation of 3,500.”
- YES...“Google States Without Evidence That There Are Over 10,000 Grape Varieties and Someone Would Be a Fool to Try to Find and Catalog Them All.”

WINE & PHILOSOPHY?–“CONTENTIOUS WINE ISSUE!” “The Vitis International Variety Catalogue VIVC. Which is the Foremost Authority On the Grapes of the World States That There Are Over 10,000 Grape Varieties!”

WINE & PHILOSOPHY?–“CONTENTIOUS WINE ISSUE!” “If a Certain 42 Grapes Where Experimentally Crossed at Geisenheim Grape Institute In Germany In 1879 and In the Past Over 100 Years Only 4 Has Been Reproduced Should the Other 38 Grapes Be Considered a Type of Grape?”
- YES…“If a Grape Was Crossed Once It Can Be Crossed Again.”
- NO…“If a Grape Crossed and Not Good or Interesting Enough For Mass Production and Hasn’t Been Produced In Over 100 Years It Isn’t a Grape or at Least a Grape We Should Count On the Official Number of Different Grape Varietals of the World.”

NUBER Of VARIETAL DISCLAIMER

Clones Arn’t Counted Twice- Generally Clonal Varieties of the Same Basic Varietal Are the Same Grape Rather Than a Separate Varietal.
- “Major”, Mutations Which Are Clones Are Counted…Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gri, Pinot Munier.
Synonyms Arn’t Counted Twice- Ancient Viticulture and Language Predates Modern Viticulture by Thousands of Years. The Reason You See Multiple Names of the Same Grape Growing In Different Regions is That Viticulture, Grapes and Wine Tradition Evolved In Different Regions Septeratly. No Thought Was Given That the Zinfandel Growing In California Was the Same as the Primitive Grape Growing In Italy Was the Same as the Crljenak Kastelanski Grape Being Grown In Croatia.
- ~Example~ Pinot Noir/ Pinot Nero/ Blauburgunder/ Spatburgunder All Counted as 1.

COLORS

WHITE= Yellow, Light Green, Green, Gold
BLACK= BLue, Red, Purple
- **White/ Black Grapes Refers to the Lowest Common Denominator When Mentioning Grape Color, But Obviously More Accurate Colors Exist.

“Are You Still Using Google to Find Information On Grapes Varieties?”

TOP GRAPES VARIETIES GROWN WORLDWIDE 2020

1) Cabernet Sauvignon 2) Merlot
3) Tempranillo 4) Airen
5) Chardonnay 6) Syrah
7) Garnacha 8) Sauvignon Blanc
9) Trebbiano 10) Pinot Noir
11) Sangiovese 12) Riesling
13) Bobal 14) Cabernet Franc
15) Malbec 16) Monastrell
17) Rkatsiteli 18) Pinot Gris
19) Mazuelo 20) Macabeo

SUB-CHAPTERS Of WORLD’S GRAPES
- World’s Grapes ‘A‘ World’s Grapes ‘B‘
- World’s Grapes ‘C‘ World’s Grapes ‘D‘ – ‘E‘
- World’s Grapes ‘F‘ World’s Grapes ‘G‘ – ‘H‘
- World’s Grapes ‘I‘ – ‘J‘ World’s Grapes ‘K‘ – ‘L‘
- World’s Grapes ‘M‘ World’s Grapes ‘N‘ – ‘O‘
- World’s Grapes ‘P‘ – ‘Q‘ World’s Grapes ‘R‘
- World’s Grapes ‘S‘ World’s Grapes ‘T‘
- World’s Grapes ‘U‘ – ‘V‘ World’s Grapes ‘W‘ – ‘X‘
- World’s Grapes ‘Y‘ – ‘Z‘
**Refer to Proceeding Sub-Chapters For Detailed Information On These.
**Refer to “The GRAPE ITSELF” For Additional Information.

**Refer to “BIBLIOGRAPHY/ Sources” For Details On Scholarly Works Referenced.