Riverbank grape
Vitis riparia
The riverbank grape (Vitis riparia), the hardiest, the most disease-resistant, the most vigorous, the best suited to shade, the one that makes the best pies and the best jellies!
The bunches of good volume improve after frost, but remain rather acidic, which obviously destines them for sweet processing, or dried. Often drastic, the pruning of the vines allows to pick edible leaves, softened and salted in brine, which will make local vine leaf rolls, traditionally stuffed with seasoned rice, accompanied by its wild grape wine, which the explorer Jacques Cartier once described as being full-bodied, intense and staining! Often drastic, the pruning of the riverbank grape allows to pick edible leaves. Softened and salted in brine, they will make local vine leaf rolls, traditionally stuffed with seasoned rice. Self-fertilizing. Native.
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