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Concord is a red grape used mostly in the North and Pacific Northwest of the United States. It offers a dark blue skin, large seeds and strong aromas.
Concord is often sold as table grapes and used to make grape jelly, grape-flavored soft drinks and candy.
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When used to produce wine, Concord grapes generally give a surprising "foxy" flavor, radically different from European-style wines. Most Concord wines produced in the US and Canada are finished sweet and sold as desert-style wines.
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Concord was created in 1849 by Ephraim Wales Bull in the town of Concord, Massachussetts. Its ancestry is still debated, but has been proven to be a mix of European and native American grapes.
More than 400,000 tons of Concord are harvested each year in the US, mostly in New York and Washington, representing 8% of total US grape harvest (wine and non-wine). A significant amount is also grown in Canada.
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Concord produces small vines and low crops unless grafted onto a good growth rootstock and planted in soils of optimum fertility.
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