Mac Candless

Synonym for the grape variety; see there.

The red grape variety comes from the USA. Synonyms are Troya (Australia); Jacquez, Jacquet (France); Tintiglia (Italy); Lenoir (Mexico); Alabama, Black El Paso, Black July, Black Spanish, Blue French, Blue French Grape, Burgundy, Cigar Box Grape, Clarence, Deveraux, El Paso, French Grape, Jack, Jacques, Jaquez, July Cherry, Long Laliman, Longworth's Ohio, Mac Candless, Madeira, Segar Box, Sherry of the South, Springstein, Sumpter, Thurmond, Tintiglia, Warren (USA); Zakez, Zsake. The ancestry is not clear and hotly discussed. It is probably a natural cross between the American species Vitis aestivalis and Vitis cinerea, and possibly an unknown European Vitis vinifera. The US botanist Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913) later assigned the hybrid to the species Vitis bourquina.

Jacquez - Weintraube und Blatt

The French vine breeder Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839) received seedlings of a vine by Isaac Lenoir, who lived in Horatio (Sumpter County, South Carolina), at the beginning of the 19th century. Herbemont selected them in his vineyard in Columbia (South Carolina) and named them Lenoir for the time being (by the way, a few years earlier,...

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