If you want to say that you can't miss the fruit in August and September, you must be indispensable to the grapes. Right now, it's the season for grapes to hit the market. In the vineyard, the green leaves are covered with grapes full of grains and heavy grains, peeling off the purple coat, revealing the crystal clear green flesh, putting one in the mouth, full and juicy, really sweet to the heart.
Variety Full of sweetness
Huashang Daily reporter came to a supermarket in Yanta District of Xi'an City and saw that the fruit area has been filled with various varieties of grapes, including Hutai No. 8, Sunshine Rose, Sapphire, etc., and many consumers are also choosing to buy. A grape grower in Caotang Town, Enyi District, told reporters, "There are now 10 varieties of sunshine roses, goldfingers, sapphires and so on. There are more tourists who drive over the weekend, so you can taste and pick them at the same time. ”
According to the data released by the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics, in 2020, The grape output in Shaanxi Province was 807,000 tons, the grape orchard area was 731,500 mu, and the grape output was 1,226 kg per mu. Among them, Xi'an grape planting area of more than 120,000 mu, the annual output of nearly 180,000 tons, mainly concentrated in Enyi, Chang'an, Baqiao, High-tech, Xixian and other areas. Fang Yulin, dean of the School of Wine of Northwest A&F University, said: "Shaanxi has a long history of planting grapes, has a good foundation, and is distributed in northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi, and the climate types in our province are diverse, which is very suitable for grape growth. ”
For friends in Xi'an, the most familiar grape is Hutai No. 8, which generally ripens around the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Ms. Ji Wenyan of the Xi'an Grape Research Institute told reporters that the Xi'an Grape Research Institute first cultivated grape varieties No. 1-10 in the Taiping River Basin of Enyi, of which the most successful grapes were Hutai No. 8, No. 9, no. 10. "Totai No. 8 has a very thick taste, and when you eat it in your mouth, even the root of your teeth is sweet. When you eat the first one and eat the second one, the sweetness of the first one is still in your mouth. ”
According to Fang Yulin, in addition to Hutai No. 8, the grapes planted in Xi'an also have varieties such as Jufeng, Summer Black, Sunshine Rose, Giant Rose, Moldova, Sapphire, etc., "but there are also many growers who have other preferences", the growers of Caotang Town told reporters, "Our grape area is seven or eight acres, planted more than 40 grape varieties, there are beauty fingers, drunken golden incense, sunshine roses, fragrant concubines ..."
Eat grapes by all means
From the pulp point of view, Totai No. 8 belongs to the soft meat type, and the sunshine rose belongs to the crisp meat type. Crispy grapes are easier to store and transport in comparison, but many growers and merchants have come up with many ways to "fragile" soft-flesh grapes. For example, bagging boxes, Hema also "wore" an "air sense" jacket for Hutai No. 8, modeled on the packaging of wine, and packaged a single bunch of grapes with a breathable air column, which solved the problem of too high maturity and grain loss when distributing on the hard pole Ofta Line 8.
Now, in addition to tasting the grapes directly, many wine lovers will buy grapes and choose to make their own wines. Fang Yulin reminded that due to the irregularity of the brewing equipment and means, there are food safety risks, such as microorganisms exceeding the standard, formaldehyde exceeding the standard, etc., which may cause harm to the body after drinking, so everyone is not encouraged to make their own wine. If you want to drink it, you can consider brewing in small containers.
Recommended grape picking location
■ Enterprise Treasury Manor
The vineyard covers an area of more than 300 acres, and the planting varieties include Hutai No. 8, Sunshine Rose, Beauty Finger, etc. More than ten kinds, and the current mature varieties are Hutai No. 8, Summer Black, Giant Rose, Drunken Golden Fragrance, And Goldfinger.
Address: Yucian Street, Enyi District, Cut Ear Village
■ Xi'an Grape Research Institute
The R&D base of Hutai No. 8, 9 and 10 has also developed a series of products such as grape juice, wine, ice wine, etc., especially ice wine is very distinctive.
Address: Enyi District 107 Provincial Road North Shanshui Courtyard Community opposite
■Totai grape base in Enyi District
It is known as the "first village of Chinese grapes", in addition to the star product - Hutai No. 8, there are also grape varieties such as Xia Hei and Xinghua Wang.
Address: Yezhai Village, Caotang Town, Enyi District, Huashang Daily reporter Qu Lili Intern reporter Zhang Miaomiao