Why are GRAPES used as the fruit of the vine?

There are other FRUITS which grow on VINES.

Why are GRAPES used as the fruit of the vine?
Grapes were more widely used. They were especially important in the creation of wine. (Never heard of tomato wine, have you?) Wine, back in Biblical times, was drinked more than water. (Mostly because good sanitation practices weren't invented yet.)
Reply:Grapes were local to that area so that's what they used.
Reply:don't know
Reply:But grapes make wine, are symbolic in religions, and are a more widely-grown crop than melons.
Reply:Because in the book of Proverbs, it says that 'wine gladdens the hearts of men' so it's the most important vine fruit :)
Reply:they taste good
Reply:Vine is the plant, grapes are its fruit. Unless you are talking about other species of climbing vines, climbing roses etc.
Reply:In Italy they make wine out of artichokes, in japan-rice, I think it is what is available...nothing more.
Reply:So....? And.....?

The fruits of the vine was just used in John 15 by Christ as an example, that is like asking" Well... why did you but that car make model and not that one, or why did you get up on that side of the bed and not the other? ect..ect.