red grape · regional specialty

Muscat de Hambourg

Bedfordshire, England

Say it

moos·kahduhahn·boor

/mys.ka də ɑ̃.buʁ/French

Final 't' in Muscat is silent; 'Ham-' carries the French nasal vowel (ahn-). English speakers commonly say 'MUS-kat HAM-berg'.

On the palate

roselycheeraspberrymelonorange blossom

How you spot it blind: musky rose-and-lychee Muscat perfume in a light, low-tannin red

The story

First written down · circa 1850, Bedfordshire, England

Bred at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, by head gardener Seward Snow as a cross of Schiava Grossa × Muscat of Alexandria; parentage confirmed by nuclear and chloroplastic microsatellite markers (Crespan, VITIS, 2003).

Family tree: SCHIAVA GROSSA × MUSCAT OF ALEXANDRIA

Where it lives

Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Hungary · Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, France · China · California, United States

Shows up as

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Also answers to Muscat de Hamburg, Black Muscat, Rosa del Peru, Moscatel Tinto.