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white grape · rare

Early Muscat

Davis, California, USA

Say it

ur·leemyoo·skat

/ˈɜːrli ˈmjuːskæt/English

On the palate

Body medium
Acidity medium
Aromatics pronounced
orange blossomlycheewhite peachapricotstrawberryhoney

How you spot it blind: intensely aromatic muscat with orange blossom, lychee, and strawberry candy

The story

First written down · 1943, Davis, California, USA

Bred by Harold P. Olmo at UC Davis in 1943 as a cross of Muscat Hamburg × Koenigin der Weingaerten and released in 1958 primarily as a table grape.

Family tree: MUSCAT HAMBURG × KOENIGIN DER WEINGAERTEN

Where it lives

Rogue Valley, Oregon, USA

Shows up as

still whiterosésparklingsweet

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These describe the classic expression of the grape. Skin contact, carbonic and other low-intervention winemaking — which we love — can bend all of them.