NOMENCLATURE OF RAPES. 



WINE GRAPES. 



1 will now proceed to describe the varieties which are most 

 generally used for making wine, and which form the major 

 part in the finest known vineyards. Under this head are neces- 

 sarily included many varieties that are very estimable as table 

 grapes, but whose most important use in foreign countries be- 

 ing for wine, they are consequently placed under this head. 



BLACK CLUSTER. PR. CAT. No. 94. 



Maurillon, Duh. Manosquen. 



Maurillon noir. Merille. 



Morillon noir. Noirien, or Noirier. 



Pineau noir, of Burgundy. Massoutel. 



Pineau de Bourgogne, Chaptal. Gribalet noir. 



Auvernat, or Auvernas. Farinau. 



Auvernat noir. True Burgundy. 



Pimbart. Small black cluster. 

 Black Orleans. 



Vitis uva mediocri, sublaxd, acinis didcibus, nigricantibiis, 



This variety has leaves slightly five lobed and very regularly 

 indented ; the bunch is of moderate size and shouldered ; the 

 berries are rather oblong and hang loosely, and are about the 

 size of the white muscadine ; the taste is pleasant, with a pecu- 

 liar flavour. It is not considered a table fruit, but is highly 

 prized for wine, and ripens its crops unifoimly, and at the 

 same time as the white chasselas. It stands the frost 

 well, being one of the most hardy kinds. The crops are 

 not great, but the wine is rich, keeps well, and has an agree- 

 able bouquet. The Maurillon class, of which the finest vine- 

 yards of Burgundy are composed, and the different varieties 

 of which are deemed the staple of the vineyards of France, 

 owes its name, which is derived from the word maure, to the 

 black colour of this the original variety, and many other 

 black grapes which are not of the family of the Morillon of 



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