Champagne grape
Vitis vinifera · Fruit
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The Champagne grape is the marketing name for the Black Corinth, an ancient Greek Vitis vinifera cultivar whose tiny, seedless, deep-purple-to-black berries hang in dense little clusters and taste intensely sweet — eaten fresh as a delicate garnish and dried into the small currants of baking, with no link to the wine or to true currants.
Picking a good onedrag
Picked early, sharp and hardWrinkled, shedding, winey
Full colour, firmBuy itGood for snacking, salads or freezing whole, with two to three weeks left in the fridge.
ColourFull, even colour for the variety
FleshFirm and plump, springs back
The stemGreen and pliable, nothing drops
SmellClean, faintly sweet at the bag
These cues are Grape's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
96%
Edible part
4.9 g · stems off
5.1 g
Weight each
each one
65%
Juice
about 650 ml a kilo
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 5× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Vented bag, gentle air
Airflow