The Levokumsky grape has won the well-deserved love of Russian winegrowers for its qualities and characteristics, good yield, ease of cultivation, resistance to many diseases and excellent frost resistance.

About the Levokumsky variety

This variety got its name from the name of the village in which it was bred by amateur breeders. The village of Levokumskaya is famous for its two-hundred-year history of winemaking and, accordingly, the cultivation of universal varieties suitable for obtaining grape juice and raw materials for making all kinds of wines.

The progenitor of this variety is a visiting North American named Vitis Labrusca. Seedling variety Levokumsky hybrid American from free pollination, bred by an amateur winegrower.

Note.The variety is grown on an industrial scale in the vineyards of the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, the North Caucasus.

Ripe bunch of Levokumsky grapes

The Levokumsky grape variety has a universal purpose. And although the fruits of this grape variety are small and ordinary in taste and smell, the wine from them has a wonderful noble ruby ​​red color, and also boasts an unsurpassed aroma and taste. Grape juice has approximately the same properties.

Such high taste characteristics are due to the thin black skin and high content of sugars and tannins. After all, it has long been known that it is these components that are the basis for obtaining high-quality wines - sparkling, dry and dessert.

Characteristics and parameters of the variety

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Important! Levokumsky grape variety has a number of outstanding qualities in comparison with other universal grape varieties. This is recognized by many experts and amateurs who are at least a little versed in viticulture.

Here are its main characteristics:

  • Ripening is medium early. From bud swelling to harvest 110-140 days, depending on the growing region. Amicable return of the harvest.
  • Excellent resistance to diseases such as gray rot, mildew, phylloxera. This allows you to grow it without additional treatments with chemicals, as an environmentally friendly product.
  • High frost resistance, frost resistant. Freely withstands frosts down to -27 degrees Celsius without shelter and up to -40 degrees with shelter. This allows you to grow it not only in the Moscow region and the middle lane, but also in Siberia.
  • It does not need vaccination, as it is tuberous.

Description of Levokumsky grapes would be incomplete without the following information: it is tall and, therefore, requires proper shaping, timely pruning of the bush. The leaves are large, smooth, tend to a round shape, the bark is silvery-brown.

Levokumsky grape

It blooms together, the flowers are bisexual, does not need cross-pollination. Small brushes, weighing up to 150 g, but a beautiful pyramidal shape. Berries with a matte bloom sit tight. The taste is harmonious, the sugar content is very high - up to 25%.

A little about agricultural technology

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Many cultivated gardeners throughout the country have recently become obliged to have a small vineyard in their own orchard. The Levokumsky variety is suitable for beginners and those who do not have a lot of free time to carefully care for the vine. It is better to buy varietal material in nurseries.

It is important! This grape variety, in unfavorable years, can infect some types of fungal diseases.

Planting seedlings should be done in sunny places, covered from the north side, dry - without stagnant rainwater and close groundwater.

It is not picky about the soil, it grows easily and develops on loam and sandy loam. The planting pit should be at least half a meter deep with a drainage pad and filled with a fertilized peat-sand mixture.

Requires watering during the flowering period - at least two buckets per bush weekly. It is better to form a bush in a harsh winter in a fan manner. Feed with organic matter once a year - in the spring.

Having grown this grape variety on your site, you can enjoy delicious wine and grape juice in the cold season.