Grape Buffalo - Kahikatea Farm Certified Organic Nursery and Permaculture Farm

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Vitis vinifera

Dark purple-black table grapes which are sweet and juicy. These are the first of ours to ripen each year, in January, and they always catch me by surprise! Their main function here seem to be to remind me to net all my other grapes before the birds get them! But when I do manage to harvest some they have a wonderful flavour, texture and a particularly grapey aroma.

Grapes have been cultivated by humans for over 8000 years. The berries grow on deciduous vines and in the right climate, are easy care and can be managed in many different ways. Everyone will be familiar with the wire structures and pruning regime of vineyard grapes which are highly ‘tamed’. Here we use grapes predominantly for shade, having several different varieties growing on our wrap-around verandah, and we jus...