Grape vine identified

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• steephill Posts: 2,841

  September 2018

  Apart from the colour of the ripe grapes  the shape of the leaves and the grape bunches are the most useful identifying characteristics. Select a typical leaf and photograph it lying flat so that you can see if it has lobes and holes. With grape bunches is it conical or cylindrical, does  it have a single bunch or is there a main bunch and a smaller side bunch?
  
  Once you know this it is easier to find a match online or in reference books. Outdoor grapes in the UK are likely to be from a limited range not including the main commercial wine varieties such as syrah, cabernet sauvingnon or merlot although it is still possible. I have a merlot growing in the garden as well as a Leon Millot.
  
  If you could post photos as I suggested above it would help us find possible matches.

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• ZeroZero1 Posts: 577

  September 2018

  Most grapes look the same alas. Are they seeded or not. A best selling seeded /red grape is Hamburg - which the tale goes, comes from a vine originally planted in Henry the Eighth's grardeners in Hampton Court. 
  If a grape is seedless this would narrow it down a lot, to a "dessert" grape

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• Kayellenbourne Posts: 4

  September 2018

   
  This is the first vine the grapes grow with one main bunch with a smaller second bunch with a conical shape. 

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• Kayellenbourne Posts: 4

  September 2018

  
  This is the second vine the grape bunches grow as just one main bunch and the bunches are more cylindrical and grow very close the the vine. 

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• Kayellenbourne Posts: 4

  September 2018

  Both the grape varieties have seeds and are small grapes not large dessert grapes

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