Red grape variety
Muscat Hamburg
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Muscat Hamburg is a red grape variety from United Kingdom. In the National Wine Agency's 2025 vineyard cadastre it covers 4 ha on 29 plots, 3.9 ha of them in Kakheti.
- Wines in the catalogue
- 4
- Wineries
- 3
- Vineyards, ha · cadastre 2025
- 4
About the variety
Muscat Hamburg is a black-berried muscat that originated in England; DNA data in VIVC confirm it as a cross of Muscat of Alexandria and Schiava Grossa (Trollinger). It is grown both as a table grape and for wine, which carries the typical muscat aroma.
- Berry colour
- red
- Origin
- United Kingdomper VIVC passport
- Where it grows — by catalogue wines
- Kakheti3 wines
- Vineyards · cadastre 2025
29 plots · Vine age: before 1990 — 0 ha, 1990–2009 — 1 ha, since 2010 — 3 ha
- Missing
- No data: tannin
What it looks like
Bunch, berries and leaf
Wines
Wines from Muscat Hamburg
Tender Rosé
Cooperative Ruispiri
Kakheti
A dry rosé Georgian wine made from Muscat Hamburg, Kisi and Mtsvane Kakhuri, region of Kakheti. The classic method, 12% alcohol. As described by sources: on the nose, floral, rose and strawberry; on the palate, long finish. Produced by Cooperative Ruispiri.
Black Muscat
Melitoni
Kakheti
Region of Kakheti: a dry red wine from Muscat Hamburg. Made using the traditional qvevri method; alcohol 14.5%. Produced by Melitoni.
Black Muscat Rose
Melitoni
Kakheti
Region of Kakheti: a dry rosé wine from Muscat Hamburg. Produced by Melitoni.
Hamburg Muscat Kakhuri Mtsvane Kisi
Ikalto Winery
A semi-sweet rosé Georgian wine made from Muscat Hamburg, Kisi and Mtsvane Kakhuri. Made using the European method; alcohol 11.5%. Sources note raspberry, rose and strawberry on the nose. Made at Ikalto Winery.
Where the data comes from
Sources for this page
Description
Facts from ampelographic sources and the country's official registers, in our own words.
Photos
Openly licensed photographs and photos from winery websites; the source of each frame:
- Bunch on the vine · photo: Silverije / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Bunch on the vine · photo: Silverije / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bunch on the vine · photo: Rosenzweig / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bunch on the vine · photo: Silverije / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bunch · photo: Doris Schneider, Ursula Brühl, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin
The variety's passport in the Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC).
Vineyard area
Vineyard cadastre 2025, National Wine Agency: plots registered under this variety; plots without an identified variety are not counted.
Wines
Our catalogue: the grape make-up comes from the winery's site or the label.
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