The red grape variety is an interspecific new breeding between unknown varieties of the species Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. Synonyms are Black Palestine and Schuylkill. The name was given after the town in Pennsylvania. The hybrid was crossed in the USA by the breeder W. E. Hulings at the beginning of the 19th century. It was mentioned in 1830 by R. W. Prince in the documentation "Treatise on the Vine". The variety is cultivated in the US state of New York, among other places. No stocks were reported in 2016 (Kym Anderson statistics).
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Markus J. Eser
Weinakademiker und Herausgeber „Der Weinkalender“