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Niagara
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Niagara is a white slip-skin American grape with strong labrusca “foxy” aroma, used for juice, jelly, and regional fresh eating in the Northeast and Great Lakes. Berries are green-gold and pull from the skin like Concord; flavour is sweet, musky, and distinctly non-vinifera. It thrives where European vines struggle with cold. Cook into pale jams and juices; drink as bottled white grape juice with nostalgic character. Fresh clusters are a seasonal farm-stand treat. Wine from Niagara is often hybrid-sweet or specialty rather than fine dry table wine.
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Niagara originated in New York from Concord × Cassidy as a white labrusca-type grape.
Niagara juice and regional fresh markets grew across the northern US and Canada.
Niagara remained a cold-climate juice and farm-market white grape.