Catawba Grape

Catawba (grape)

Catawba is a red American grape variety used for wine as well as juice, jams and jellies. Grown predominantly on the East Coast of the United States, this purplish-red grape is a likely a hybrid of the native American Vitis labrusca and the Vitis vinifera cultivar Sémillon. Its exact origins are unclear but it seems to have originated somewhere on the East Coast between the Carolinas and Maryland.

Grape

A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.

Shades of violet

Violet is a color term derived from the flower of the same name. There are numerous variations of the color violet, a sampling of which are shown below.

catawba

Noun

1. The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.
2. A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape.

grape

Noun

1. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
2. Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

Adjective

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.