List of varieties 2009.


You will find more varieties in another table beneath.

Table grape Wine grape For wine and eating

Varieties grown in open field

Varieties grown in greenhouse or at wall

Hasansky Sladki

Kristaly

Smugljanka

Muscat Bleu

Muscat belij Sverhran

Skandia

Somerset Seedless*

Supaga

Cornij Bessemjanni Zimstoiko*

Beauty Seedless*

Korinka Russkaja

Kosmonaut

Sirvinta

Muskat Iantarny

Loza Mira

Kuzminski

Michurinski

Esther

Nero

Steuben

Solaris

Zilga

Rondo

Himrod*

Vanessa*

Liepajas Dzintars

Petite Jewel*

Bolero

Swenson Red

Einset*

Guna

Silva

VB 91-26-4

Reliance*

Frankenthaler

Alioshenkin

ES M-9-6

Cabernet Cortis

Birstaler Muscat

V68042



Varieties grown in open field.



    Hasansky Sladki (Varajane sinine, Baltica)

  • Origin: Russia, A.K. Bous

  • Hardiness: down to -35 C

  • Ripening: extremely early

  • Berries: blue, small

  • Clusters: medium/small

  • Flavour: sweet

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: juice, rose wine, high content of c vitamin, 21,8 mg per 100 ml. Beautiful foliage, buds need long time for ripening in the autumn



Skandia (TP 2-1-37)


  • Origin: USA, Minnesota, Tom Plocher

  • Hardiness: down to -35 C

  • Ripening: extremely early

  • Berries: blue,small

  • Clusters: small

  • Flavour : not a table grape

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth : vigorous

  • Characteristics: interesting for rose wine and juice



Kuzminski (Kuzminski Sinni, CGL 2-05-43)

  • Origin: Russia, Aleksander Kuzmin

  • Hardiness: down to -30 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: blue, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: neutral, good flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: table grape, juice,



Korinka Russkaja

  • Origin: Russia, Ivan Filippenko, Lena Stin

  • Hardiness: down to -25 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: white, very small

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: sweet, very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: seedless table grape




Solaris

  • Origin: Germany, Freiburg

  • Hardiness: down to -16 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: white, small/medium

  • Clusters: big/medium

  • Flavour: sweet good flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: excellent for white wine, some bunch rot



Liepajas Dzintars

  • Origin: Moldova, Latvia, Gunvald Vesmin

  • Hardiness: down to -25 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: sweet, very good muscat flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape, female



Guna

  • Origin: Latvia, Paul Sukatnieks

  • Hardiness: down to -30 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: red, big

  • Clusters: medium/small

  • Flavour: sweet, fruity, very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: very vigorous

  • Characteristics: table grape, female, prefers acid soil



Alioshenkin

  • Origin: Russia, Chemistrenko

  • Hardiness: down to -20 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: extremely big

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape, small kernels



Kristaly

  • Origin: Hungary, G Kriszten

  • Hardiness: down to - 30 C

  • Ripening: very early

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: white wine, table grape

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: Acid decreases very fast when berries have ripened



Somerset Seedless (ES 12-7-98)

  • Origin: US, Wisconsin, Elmer Swenson

  • Hardiness: down to -35 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: red-rose, small

  • Clusters: small/medium

  • Flavour: very good flavour, fruity

  • Productivity: medium, uneven

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: seedless table grape




Kosmonaut

  • Origin: Russia, Ivan Filipenko, Lena Stin

  • Hardiness: down to -20 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: blue-violet, medium/big

  • Clusters: medium/big

  • Flavour: very good, some muscat flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape



Zilga

  • Origin: Latvia, Pauls Sukatnieks

  • Hardiness: down to -35 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: blue, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: medium

  • Productivity: very high

  • Growth: extremely vigorous

  • Characteristics: table grape, beautiful foliage, prefers acid soil



Petite Jewel (Juvel)

  • Origin: US, Wisconsin, Elmer Swenson

  • Hardiness: down to -30 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: red, small

  • Clusters: small

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium/small

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: seedless table grape



Silva

  • Origin: Moldova, Latvia, Gunvald Vesmin

  • Hardiness: down to -20 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: sweet, very good muscat flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape


ES M-9-6

  • Origin: US, Wisconsin, Elmer Swenson

  • Hardiness: down to -35 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: small/medium

  • Flavour: good flavour,some muscat

  • Productivity: medium/small

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: interesting for white wine




Michurinski

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: down to -20 C

  • Ripening: early

  • Berries: blue, medium/big

  • Clusters: small/medium

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: table grape






Smugljanka

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: -35 C

  • Ripening: early/medium

  • Berries: blue, small

  • Clusters: small

  • Flavour: for red wine and juice

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: female






Supaga

  • Origin: Latvia, Pauls Sukatnieks

  • Hardiness: down to -25 C

  • Ripening: early/medium

  • Berries: white, medium/big

  • Clusters: medium/big

  • Flavour: good, fruity

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: table grape, prefers acid soil



Sirvinta

  • Origin: Litauen, Anton Gailunas

  • Hardiness: down to -25 C

  • Ripening: early/medium

  • Berries: red, medium/big

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: good, fruity

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: prefers acid soil,female



Esther

  • Origin: Hungary

  • Hardiness: down to -20 C

  • Ripening: medium

  • Berries: blue, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape




Rondo (GM 6494/5)

  • Origin: Germany, Helmut Becker

  • Hardiness: down to -20C

  • Ripening: medium

  • Berries: blue, medium/big

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: for red wine, good as table grape

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: valuable red wine variety, good table grape too




Bolero (GM 8221-3)

  • Origin: Germany, Geisenheim

  • Hardiness: down to - 20C

  • Ripening: medium

  • Berries: blue, big

  • Clusters: very big

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: very high

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: good red wine variety and table grape



Cabernet Cortis

  • Origin: Germany, Freiburg

  • Hardiness: down to -16 C

  • Ripening: medium

  • Berries: blue, small

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: for red wine

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: excellent red wine variety



VB 91-26-4

  • Origin: Schweiz, Valentin Blattner

  • Hardiness: down to -14/-16 C

  • Ripening: medium

  • Berries: blue, small

  • Clusters: small

  • Flavour: for wine

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: excellent red wine variety



Varieties grown in greenhouse or at wall






Muscat Bleu

  • Origin: Schweiz, V Blattner

  • Hardiness: dow to -16 C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: blue, medium/big

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: table grape



Muskat Iantarny

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: down to -20C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: white, medium/big

  • Clusters: medim/big

  • Flavour: very good muscat flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: excellent table grape




Chornij Bessemjanni Zimstoiki

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: down to - 30C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: black

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: seedless table grape



Himrod

  • Origin: US

  • Hardiness: down to -25C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: white, medium/small

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: very vigorous

  • Characteristics: excellent seedless table grape




Swenson Red

  • Origin: US, Elmer Swenson

  • Hardiness: down to -30C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: white, medium/small

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: very vigorous

  • Characteristics: excellent table variety




Reliance

  • Origin: US

  • Hardiness: down to -25C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: red, medium/small

  • Clusters: medium/big

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: good table grape




Birstaler Muscat

  • Origin: Schweiz, V Blattner

  • Hardiness: down to -16 C

  • Ripening: medium/late

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: medium

  • Flavour: good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: good table grape



Muskat belij Sverhranni

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: down to -25C

  • Ripening: late

  • Berries: white, medium

  • Clusters: very big

  • Flavour: very good, muscat flavour

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: very good table grape with a light muscat flavour



Beauty Seedless

  • Origin: USA

  • Hardiness: down to -20C

  • Ripening: late

  • Berries: blue,small

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good, sweet flavour

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: sweet seedless table grape



Loza Mira

  • Origin: Russia

  • Hardiness: down to -25C

  • Ripening: late

  • Berries: white with som red, big

  • Clusters: very big

  • Flavour: very good

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: very good table grape with a light muscat flavour




Vanessa

  • Origin: Canada

  • Hardiness: down to -30C

  • Ripening: very late

  • Berries: red, medium

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good flavour

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: very vigorous

  • Characteristics: very good seedless table grape



Einset

  • Origin: USA

  • Hardiness: down to -30C

  • Ripening: very late

  • Berries: red, medium

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good flavour, fruity, strawberry

  • Productivity: medium/high

  • Growth: very vigorous

  • Characteristics: excellent seedless table grape




Steuben

  • Origin: USA

  • Hardiness: down to -30C

  • Ripening: very late

  • Berries: blue, medium/big

  • Clusters: medium/large

  • Flavour: very good, sweet, spicy

  • Productivity: high

  • Growth: vigorous

  • Characteristics: slipskin




Frankenthaler (Black Hamburg)

  • Origin: Germany

  • Hardiness: down to -20/-25C

  • Ripening: very late

  • Berries: blue, very big

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good, very sweet

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: excellent table grape



V 68042

  • Origin: Canada, Ontario

  • Hardiness: down to -20C

  • Ripening: very late

  • Berries: blue, very big

  • Clusters: big

  • Flavour: very good, very sweet

  • Productivity: medium

  • Growth: medium

  • Characteristics: very good table grape




table.

Earliest ripening, best hardiness and flavour, biggest weight of berries and clusters, highest productivity and most vigorous growth are marked with 9 in the table underneath. There is a graduation down to 1. Wine grapes are marked with red, rose or white. If the variety is of interest as a table grape, a number is added to describe this. Varieties with numbers 1 or 2 must be grown in green house in Norway. Varieties marked with 3 must very often be grown in greenhouse too. Seedless varieties are marked with the sign *



Variety

Country

Ripening

Hardi-ness

Colour of berries

Flavour

Wine

Weight berries

Weight clusters

Produc-tivity

Growth

Alioshenkin

Russia

7

5

white

7-8


6

9

9

7

Beauty Seedless*

US

2

4

blue

7-8


3

7

7

5

Birstaler Muscat

Schweiz

3

4

white

8


6

6

7

6

Bolero (GM 8221-3)

Germany

4

5

blue

7-8

7 red

7

8

9

7

Cabernet Cantor

Germany

4

4

blue



4

6

5

6

Cabernet Cortis

Germany

4

4

blue


8 red

4

5

5

6

Don Muskat

Russia

4

6

blue

6-8


5

7

7

6

Einset*

US

2

7

red

8-9


6

7

7

8

ES 12-9-76*

US

5

7

white

7


3

3

5

6

ES M-9-6

US

5

8

white






7

Esther

Hungary

5

4

blue

7-9


6

5

6

6

Frankenthaler

Germany

1

5

blue

7-9


9

8

6

6

Golubok

Ukraina

3

6

blue


7 red + juice

4

5

7

6

Variety

Country

Ripening

Hardi-ness

Colour of berries

Flavour

Wine

Weight berries

Weight clusters

Produc-tivity

Growth

Guna

Latvia

7

7

red

5-8


8

4

6

8

Hasansky Sladki

Russia

9

8

blue

6-7

7 rose + 8 juice

3

5

5

8

Himrod*

US

3

6

white

7-9


6

7

6

8

Juvel* (Petite Jewel)

US

5

7

fiolett

7


3

3

5

6

Jubilei Novgoroda

Russia

7

7

white

5-7

7

4

4

8

Korinka Russkaja*

Russia

8

6

white

8-9


2

5

6

7

Kosmonaut

Russia

6

5

blue

7-8


7

7

7

5

Kristaly

Hungary

7

7

white

7-8

7 white

6

6

6

6

Kuzminski

Russia

8

7

blue

7-8

6 red juice

6

6

6

6

Liepajas Dzintars

Moldova/Latvia

8

6

white

7-9


6

5

5

6

Loza Mira

Russia

2

6

white

7-9


8

8

7

6

Michurinski

Russia

6

5

blue

7-8


7

7

6

7

Moskovski

Russia

6

4

blue

7-8


7

7

6

6

Variety

Country

Ripening

Hardi-ness

Colour of berries

Flavour

Wine

Weight berries

Weight clusters

Produc-tivity

Growth

Muscat Bleu

Schweiz

4

3

blue

7-8


6

6

6

6

Muskat belij Svehrranni

Russia

2

6

white

7-8


6

7

8

6

Muskat Iantarny

Russia

3

5

white

7-8


6

6

7

6

Nero

Hungary

3

5

blue

7-8


6

6

6

6

Ranni TSHA

Russia

6

6

blue

6-8


6

6

6

7

Reform

Hungary

6

5

white

6-7

7 white

6

5

4

6

Riesel

Schweiz

4

4

white


7-8 white

4

5

5

5

Rondo

Germany

4

6

blue

6-7

7-8 red

7

7

7

7

Sirvinta

Litauen

5

6

red

6-8


7

6

5

7

Skandia (TP 2-1-37)

US

8-9

8

blue


rose + juice

3

3

6

8

Smugljanka

Russia

6

8

blue


7-8 red + juice

3

3

5

8

Solaris

Germany

8

4

white

7-8

8 white

5

7

5

7

Somerset Seedless*

US

6

8

red

8-9


3

3

5

6

Variety

Country

Ripening

Hardi-ness

Colour of berries

Flavour

Wine

Weight berries

Weight clusters

Produc-tivity

Growth

Steuben

US

2

7

blue

5-9


7

6

6

7

Supaga

Latvia

5

6

gul

6-8


7

6

6

7

Swenson Red

US

3

8

red

8-9


8

7

6

8

TP 1-2-15

US

5

8

blue


red

3

6

7

8

V 68042

Canada

1

5

blue

8-9


9

7

6

7

Vanessa*

Canada

2

7

red

7-8


6

7

6

8

VB 91-26-4

Schweiz

4

4

blue


7-8 red

4

3

5

6

VB 91-26-5

Schweiz

4

4

blue


7-8 red

4

4

5

6

Zilga

Latvia

6

8

blue

5-7


5

3

8

9

Variety

Country

Ripening

Hardi-ness

Colour of berries

Flavour

Wine

Weight berries

Weight clusters

Produc-tivity

Growth