Wine-grape

[f. WINE sb.¹ + GRAPE sb.¹]

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† 1. A cluster or bunch of grapes. Obs.

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c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3710. Ðes .xii. ðider hem hauen broȝt,… An win-grape on an cuuel-staf.

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2. A grape from which wine is made. U.S.

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1838. Penny Cycl., XI. 356/2. The fruit of several other species of vitis, natives of America, possess some merit as wine-grapes.

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1845–50. Mrs. Lincoln, Lect. Bot., 149. He has traced the northern limit of the wine-grape, where the mean annual temperature is about 50°.

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1868. Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869), 212. What varieties are in highest repute as wine grapes?

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