Vitis labrusca ‘Niagara’

You’ll really fall for Niagara! Niagara is an attractive, productive and vigorous old-style variety, from 1882, with large, slipskin berries; juicy with a strong foxy flavor, and the origin of most of the white grape juice sold in the US. Can be used as a seedless table grape and for juice, jelly and sweet wines, this is the product of a cross between Concord and Cassady varieties. A real taste treat for lovers of unique labrusca cultivars!

Although it has a following, Niagara is not known as a high-quality wine grape as it tends to have an abundance of “foxy” flavors and aromas, especially when ripe; harvest at 14° brix or earlier for wine production. Growth and habit similar to its parent Concord. Ripens midseason in warm summer areas.