8 best grape varieties

Early ripe table grapes with light-colored berries. Bush vigorous. Saplings quickly grow and start fruiting early. In good years, the vine matures well, but crop overload delays ripening. The clusters are dense, weighing 600 grams on average, but with good care they reach 1.5-2 kg, with blades, wide-conic. Berries 2.8 - 3 cm long, weighing from 7 to 15 g, ovoid, amber-white. The flesh is juicy and fleshy, the skin is strong. The taste is simple, with a slight nutmeg aroma at the stage of full ripening. Berries tolerate transportation. Productivity depends on agricultural technology, the method of forming and the age of the bush. Responsive to agricultural practices, including fertilization. Shows resistance to mildew at 3.5 points. Winter hardiness is average, refers to covering.

A good early grape variety of the dining form of Volgograd breeding. It is vigorous and highly productive, it takes root quickly and adapts to the microclimate, with a good maturation of the shoots. Cutting done on 5 - 6 or 8 - 10 eyes. The cluster is friable, loosely branching, conical, depending on care, it can weigh from 500 g to 2 kg. Berries are oval, amber colored with a whitish bloom, weighing 4.5 g. The third part (in some years up to 50%) of berries without seeds, responds well to preparations for ramishes. Pulp harmonious taste, crispy. Peel of medium density. Winter hardiness is good, but in the Middle zone requires light cover. It has good adaptive properties, the vine ripens even in adverse years. Due to insufficient disease resistance, it is grown with preventive treatments throughout the season.

Early seedless variety with brightly colored berries. North American breeding. It is characterized by moderate growth of shoots. A cluster of medium size or small, weighing 100 - 200 g, dense, cylindrical. The berries are round, weighing 1 - 2 g, pink. Taste is rated very high. The skin is medium density, strong, eaten. Adapted for the northern regions. It has high winter hardiness and good immunity. In regions with winter temperatures not lower than minus 20 - 25 degrees, it can be grown in a non-covering culture. When grown in the Ryazan and Moscow regions, the beginning of ripening is noted in the first decade of August.

This early ripening universal grape is good for the Moscow region and for the northern regions. Bushes vigorous. Shoots mature perfectly. Good compatibility with rootstocks, fast rooting.The cluster is cylindrical, with one wing, dense, weighing 300 - 450 g. The berries are round-oval, dark blue, weigh about 4 g. The mucous pulp, the skin is thick. The taste is simple, characterized as isabelny. Ripened clusters can remain on the vine for a long time, without falling off and not losing taste. It is resistant to gray rot, mildew and oidium. Frost resistance is good, but is grown up with shelter for the winter. It is especially appreciated for cold resistance: berries ripen and gain sugar and in regions with insufficient for southern varieties the amount of active temperatures. Positive experience of cultivation obtained by the growers from the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

Seedless variety of medium ripening. Bushes vigorous. The clusters are cone-shaped, branchy, 40 cm long, often with lobes, of average density, average weight of 500 - 600 g. Oval berries, 2.5 - 3 cm long, weight of 2.5 - 4 g, pink-red. The pulp is dense, sugary with a light nutmeg. Suitable for transportation and long-term storage. In the spring, buds wake up later than early varieties. Not suitable for cultivation in the Central region. In the Moscow region in the open field does not ripen. In the Voronezh region in the rainy summer does not gain sugar. Good reviews of winegrowers from the Volgograd region, where it is grown in a covering culture.

Mid-season table-raisin grapes of Uzbek selection. Bush with a high growth force. Requires careful shaping, be sure to remove stepsons. The cluster is cone-shaped, branchy, of average density, weighs 800 to 1500 g, with professional care, the weight of individual clusters exceeds 3 kg. The berries are cylindrical, weighing 10 - 15 g, pink with a darker tan, with an average wax coating. The flesh is tender, dense, crisp. The skin is thin.Experienced growers from an adult bush collect more than 70 kg. Does not possess complex stability and needs frequent prophylactic treatments. Ripening berries attract wasps, so the clusters are protected. After heavy rains, the berries have cracked skin. Forms high yields under the condition of high soil fertility. Due to the low frost resistance, even in the Central zone, a good shelter is needed, in the Moscow region it is more often grown in greenhouses.