Agawam (grape)

Agawam (or Rogers 15) is a hybrid grape variety.<ref name="VIVC">Agawam Template:Webarchive, Vitis International Variety Catalogue, accessed on June 26, 2010</ref> It is a crossing of Carter (another hybrid grape with Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera in its pedigree) and Muscat Hamburg (a Vitis vinifera cultivar). Agawam is one of the so-called Rogers' Hybrids created by E.S. Rogers of Salem, Massachusetts, in the early-to-mid-19th century, and is unique among the named cultivars of that group in that it is self-fertile.

It can be used to make a rosé wine having a "foxy" flavor.<ref name="VIVC"/>

Synonyms

Agawam is also called Agavam, Rogers 15, and Rogers' Hybrid Nr. 15.

See also

• List of grape varieties

References

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