a number of grape species are found in the new world and these types were

domesticated after the european encounter with america (reisch and pratt 1996).
one american species, v. labrusca, known as the fox grape, was rapidly
domesticated while others were hybridized with v. vinifera to develop phylloxera-
resistant rootstocks. muscadines (v. rotundifolia), native to the southern united
states, were preserved by native americans by drying (olien 2001) but was not
cultivated and can be considered a recent domesticate.