[Sca-cooks] Verjuice grape question?

[Terry Decker]

In that they had white and red wine in period, I would say white and red 
grapes were available and probably the green ones, which IIRC are classed 
with the whites.  For that matter, the different colors show up in 
Renaissance paintings.  Taste doesn't travel well through time, so there is 
no way to definitely compare tastes.

The Concord grapes have a sharper, harsher taste than their European 
counterparts.

Bear

> OK.  I'll bite and show my ignorance.  Is it a correct assumption that 
> period grapes were green, not purple/red, seeded, of course, and probably 
> on the smallish side?  Do we know if they were sourer than modern grapes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Samrah
>
> Thus spaketh Bear:
> Concord grapes are a cultivated variety of Vitis labrusca, the fox grape.
> They originate in the Eqastern US and have purplish-black berries when 
> ripe.