Muscat Rouge à Petits Grains
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Muscat Rouge à Petits Grains is a wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 grape
Grape
A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...

 for white wine that is a member of the Muscat family
Muscat (grape and wine)
The Muscat variety of grapes of the species Vitis vinifera is widely grown for wine, raisins and table grapes. Their color ranges from white to near black. Muscat almost always has a pronounced sweet floral aroma. Muscat grapes are grown around the world...

 of Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera is a species of Vitis, native to the Mediterranean region, central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran....

. Its name comes from its characteristic small berry size and tight clusters, and from its skin colour. It's a variation of the more common Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains
Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains
Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains is a white wine grape that is a member of the Muscat family of Vitis vinifera. Its name comes from its characteristic small berry size and tight clusters...

 with a reddish colour, which in some of its synonyms are described as brown, gray or violet. Muscat Rose à Petits Grains
Muscat Rose à Petits Grains
Muscat Rose à Petits Grains is a wine grape for white wine that is a member of the Muscat family of Vitis vinifera. Its name comes from its characteristic small berry size and tight clusters, and from its skin colour. It's a variation of the more common Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains with a pinkish...

 is a further variation with lighter, pinkish skin colour.

It originates from Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

.

Synonyms

Muscat Rouge à Petits Grains is known under the following synonyms: Brauner Muskateller, Brown Frontignac, Brown Muscat, Busuioaca di Bohotin, Busuioaca Roza, Busuioaca Vanata di Bohotin, Grizzly Frontignan, Gros Muscat Violet, Kümmeltraube, Moscado Rosso, Moscatel Gordomorado, Moscatel Menudo Morado, Moscatella Rubra, Moscato Rosso de Madera, Moscato Violetto, Moscodel Menudo Morado, Muscat à Petits Grains Rouges, Muscat Brun, Muscat Corail, Muscat d'Alsace Rouge, Muscat de Corail, Muscat Frontignan Rouge, Muscat Gris, Muscat Rouge, Muscat Rouge de Frontignan, Muscat Violet, Muscat Violet Commun, Muscat Violet Cyperus, Muscat Violet de Madere, Muscateller Rot, Muscateller Violet, Muskat Frontinyanskii, Muskat Kalyaba, Muskat Krasnyi, Muskat Rozovyi, Muskat Violetovii, Muskateller Grau, Muskateller Rot, Muskateller Schwarzblau, Muskateller Violett, Piros Muskotally, Red Frontignan, Red Muscadel, Red Muskadel, Roter Muskateller, Schmeckende Roth, Tamaiioasa de Bohotin, Tamaioasa di Bohotin, Tamaioasa Violeta, Weihrauch Roth.

Some synonyms are shared with other Muscat varieties.
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