Catawba
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Week seventy-eight: CATAWBA (probability 30507), by David Sutton
CATAWBA is a variety of fox grape, or the red wine made from it; it takes its name from the Catawba, a river in the Carolinas, USA.
Given mankind's penchant for the fermented juice of the grape, it is not surprising that there are many more words designating varieties of grape, that can usually also be applied to the wines made from them. These will no doubt be already well known to the more sophisticated, or more bibulous, of my readers, but for the sake of those who like myself prefer a nice cup of tea any day here is a selection:
| CABERNET | a type of black grape used to produce a dry red wine |
| DOLCETTO | an Italian variety |
| GAMAY | a variety of red grape; a dry red wine made from this. Named for a French village. |
| GRENACHE | a kind of black grape; a red wine made from this |
| HANEPOOT | (also HAANEPOOT or HONEYPOT) a type of South African grape |
| MUSCAT | a sweet white grape used for raisins and to make muscatel wine |
| PINOT | a variety of both black and white grape |
| RIBIER | a large black grape |
| RIESLING | a type of grape grown especially in Germany; a dry white table wine produced from this |
| SYRAH | a red wine grape; wine made from this. Named from the ancient Persian City of Shiraz, where the grape is supposed to have originated. |
| VERDELHO | a white grape originally growing in Madeira; a white wine made from this |