Following the winter of 2008/2009, an assessment of frost damage was carried out on the vines of forty-one wine and twenty-five table grape cultivars grown in central Poland. The minimum winter temperature of-23°C was recorded on 6 January 2009. The best tolerance to low temperatures (no damage to shoots or buds) was shown by the interspecific hybrids 'Price', 'Supaga' and 'Zilga' of the Vitis labrus- cana group and hybrid 'Baco Noir' originated from V. vinifera and V. riparia. Frost injuries of the other grapevines classed as interspecific hybrids varied from 0.7% of frozen buds ('Aurore' and 'Refren' - hybrids of V. vinifera, V. rupestris, and V. lincecumii) to 99.5% ('Kodrianka'). 'Riesling' (13.5% of frozen buds) showed the best tolerance to frost damage from all the V. vinifera cultivars. The buds of the V. vinifera cultivar 'Favorit' all froze. Plant parts which were covered with soil and snow were not exposed to significant damage, even in susceptible cultivars.