Bordeaux identity
Plantgrape places Cabernet Sauvignon's origin in Bordeaux. UC Davis FPS independently includes it among Bordeaux's principal black wine grapes.
Wine-grape reference
Red wine grape · Vitis vinifera
Cabernet Sauvignon
A red wine grape associated with Bordeaux, described in both the French Plantgrape reference and UC Davis's history of the region's black grapes.
- Origin
- Bordeaux, France
- Wine-grape group
- Red
- Names in this reference
- Cabernet Sauvignon
Vine characteristics
A cultivar, not a field prescription
Plantgrape provides a cultivar-level description; UC Davis traces California selections and their histories. Those records are not evidence that all selections perform identically at every vineyard.
Regional research context
NC State Extension lists Cabernet Sauvignon among Vitis vinifera varieties and describes it as very late harvesting in its North Carolina comparison table. That timing is a regional observation, not a universal harvest date.
Reference review · November 9, 2026
Sources & scope
- Plantgrape — Cabernet-Sauvignon ↗
INRAE / IFV cultivar reference. Vine-trait observations belong to this reference's context; they are not universal planting or irrigation recommendations.
- UC Davis Foundation Plant Services — Black Grapes of Bordeaux ↗
Independent institutional history used to cross-check cultivar identity and geographic context. It does not independently validate every agronomic observation in Plantgrape.
- NC State Extension — Choice of Varieties ↗
North Carolina regional cultivar comparison; corroborates identity and supplies the explicitly regional harvest-season observation.
Cultivar descriptions are source-attributed reference material, not site prescriptions. No numeric soil-moisture threshold, disease diagnosis, regional suitability guarantee or GroundWorx performance claim is established here.