Grape

Grapes are among the most popular fruits in the world. They are eaten as fresh fruits, but are even better appreciated when fermented into white or red wine. Here is some basic information about grapes together with some photos, proverbs, and a recipe.

Basic information on grapes

Scientific name:	Vitis vinifera
English:	Grape
English:	Common grape vine
English:	Red grape
English:	White grape
Dutch:	Druif
Dutch:	Wijnstok
Dutch:	Witte druif
Dutch:	Blauwe druif
Spanish:	Uva
Spanish:	Vid
Spanish:	Parra
Spanish:	Videira
French:	Raisin
German:	Weinrebe
German:	Weinbeere
Italian:	Vite comune
Italian:	Vite euroasiatica
Italian:	Uva
Family:	Vitaceae
Order:	Vitales
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Photos

Proverbs

• A grape that sees another gets ripe.
• Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.
• Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
• Every raisin contains a pip.
• Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive. (Pliny)
• Grapes are eaten one by one.
• Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
• Grapes picked too early don't even make good vinegar.
• He's hardly a sour grape, yet behaves like a raisin.
• Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines.
• Leaves enough, but few grapes.
• Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.
• One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
• Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.
• Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape.
• The grape is not ripened by the rays of the moon.
• The grapes are sour.
• The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo)
• The sweetest grapes hang highest.
• There is a devil in every berry of grape.
• When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.

Did you know that?

• Wine is usually made from grapes, but can also made from many other fruits such as oranges, bananas, and mango.
• Wine made from honey is called mead.
• You can make wine at home.

Recipes

Grapes

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