Grapeseed oil is obtained by first cold pressing from the seed of the botanical species Vitis vinifera L. belonging to the Vitaceae family.
It is a semi-woody or climbing plant that, when allowed to grow freely, can reach more than 30 m, but which, by human action, pruning it annually, is reduced to a small 1 m bush. Its fruit, the grape, is edible and raw material for the manufacture of wine and other alcoholic beverages. Sometimes the vine is called by the name of grapevine -particularly one whose product is table grape-, although in fruit growing a vine is called a vine or grapevine to a system of conduction of vine plants in height, used particularly for specimens of careful production, since its grapes are intended for fresh consumption.
The trunk, twisted, tortuous and up to 6m long, has a thick and rough bark that falls off in longitudinal strips. The young branches, called shoots, are flexible and very thickened at the nodes; alternating on them are arranged the leaves, large (up to 14 by 12 cm), with deciduous stipules, they have a suborbicular, palmately lobed or subentery limbus, irregularly dentate, obtuse, acute or slightly acuminate, chordate, glabrous, pubescent -aracnoid or tomentose- arachnoid; They are often called branches. The bifurcated tendrils are opposite the leaves and curl and harden as soon as they find support.
The flowers are hermaphroditic or unisexual, gathered in lateral panicles opposite the leaves. The sepals are welded and inconspicuous, sometimes reduced to a ring. The petals are greenish, coalescing in the upper part, and precociously deciduous. The stamens are erect at first, then reflexes. The ovary is ovoid to globose in shape, with a single stigma. The fruit is a globose or oblong berry, with 2-4 ovoid pyriform seeds with elliptical chalaza, 2 longitudinal grooves separated by a sharp ridge, the rounded apex, and the trilobed endosperm.