The red grape variety is an interspecific new breeding between America x Profusion. It contains genes from Vitis aestivalis, Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed in California in 1897 by the US botanist Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913) at the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California. No population was recorded in 2016 (Kym Anderson statistics).
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