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How many grape varieties are there?
Suzie Q, VA:
Is there an official (or at least a semi-agreed-upon) number of recognised wine grape varieties?
me:
There is no official register, although I wrote here last August about a couple in New York who were enterprisingly making a sort of periodic table of the 100 best-known grape varieties.
In the Oxford Companion to Wine , in the entry on grape varieties, we reckon there are probably about 10,000 varieties of vinifera , the European species of grapevine from which 99 per cent of all wines are made. The most famous list of varieties was assembled, in seven volumes, by...
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