A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.

Grapes have played an important role in human nutrition, and have great cultural significance as well. The cultivation of grapes started perhaps 8,000 years ago, in the Middle East, and the oldest known winery, in Armenia, dates to ca. 4000 BCE, and they can be eaten fresh, they can be dried (as raisins, currants and sultanas), and they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, vinegar, oil, and other products.