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Date |
Brix
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TA
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| DeChaunac |
7/27/07 |
18.9 |
1.57 |
3.08 |
An excellent wine grape IF allowed to hang to full
ripeness. The pH at |
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8/10/07 |
21.3 |
1.12 |
3.15 |
harvest must be above 3.50 for the acidity to be
reasonable and the |
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8/26/07 |
21.2 |
0.98 |
3.12 |
flavors to be mature.
Otherwise, think sour grass clippings.
DeChauncac |
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9/3/07 |
20.7 |
0.82 |
3.16 |
wine can be a very good Cabernet Sauvignon replacement IF
the fruit is |
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9/13/07 |
21.8 |
0.78 |
3.53 |
allowed to ripen properly 6-8 weeks beyond veraison! |
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| Reliance |
7/27/07 |
19.4 |
1.20 |
3.13 |
Dig that pH for the acidity level! Reliance is very early for me and |
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8/10/07 |
21.2 |
0.56 |
3.27 |
cracks every year.
Sells well at the market if picked before cracking. |
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| Vanessa |
7/27/07 |
19.2 |
0.81 |
3.20 |
Chemistry like Reliance and early, but does not
crack. Flavor is much |
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8/10/07 |
19.0 |
0.52 |
3.33 |
more neutral than Reliance and the fruit redder. Nice & crunchy, too! |
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| Canadice |
7/27/07 |
20.0 |
1.20 |
3.16 |
Early with very low acidity. Doesn't crack and sells very well at market |
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8/10/07 |
21.2 |
0.37 |
3.46 |
with the only downer being low vigor. Very pretty and tasty. |
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| V8-19-11 |
7/27/07 |
29.5 |
3.52 |
2.88 |
typical riparia flavor |
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| V8-17-1 |
7/27/07 |
25.5 |
2.70 |
3.19 |
typical riparia flavor |
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| L50-S |
7/27/07 |
26.2 |
3.60 |
2.95 |
Mild riparia flavor and pretty
clusters of small berries with heavy bloom. |
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| Ravat 34 |
8/10/07 |
17.6 |
0.90 |
3.15 |
Early white-pink fruit that is translucent when
ripe. Very good wine |
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8/21/07 |
19.8 |
0.72 |
3.40 |
chemistry and large clusters. Likes VSP and pretty disease resistant. |
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| Buffalo |
8/10/07 |
20.0 |
0.75 |
3.14 |
Talk about SOFT red wine!
If it weren't for the hefty tannins the wine |
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8/29/07 |
22.0 |
0.53 |
3.39 |
would be very flat.
Lovely eating grape and ferments to a fruity but not |
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8/30/07 |
20.9 |
0.51 |
3.48 |
foxy red wine.
Blends well with many reds to add more fruitiness. |
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| Pinot Gris |
8/10/07 |
19.0 |
0.82 |
3.10 |
Very nice white wine grape. Too bad the clusters are so tight and the |
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8/21/07 |
20.9 |
0.58 |
3.39 |
vines and fruit
are so disease prone. |
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Muscat |
8/10/07 |
21.2 |
0.45 |
3.45 |
Low vigor, intense muscat aroma,
makes lovely muscatel. |
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| Chardonnay |
8/10/07 |
20.4 |
0.75 |
3.38 |
Same comments as for Pinot Gris, above. |
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8/19/07 |
21.9 |
0.60 |
3.49 |
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| Alwood |
8/10/07 |
16.8 |
0.60 |
3.30 |
Don't grow Concord, grow
Alwood!!! Beautiful clusters, early,
delicious. |
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| Lindley |
8/10/07 |
18.4 |
0.30 |
3.25 |
One of the finest old-line
labruscanas. Female but worth having. |
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| Chasselas 373 |
8/10/07 |
16.1 |
0.45 |
3.47 |
Davis selection DVIT373.
Very low acidity but the pH rises fast |
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8/19/07 |
19.2 |
0.34 |
3.89 |
during ripening.
Used only for breeding in my vineyard.
This may be |
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8/26/07 |
18.3 |
0.38 |
3.91 |
an interesting vinifera to try if you are into that sort
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9/9/07 |
18.0 |
0.36 |
3.96 |
Very neutral, sweet and juicy. |
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| Seneca |
8/10/07 |
19.5 |
0.45 |
3.41 |
Higher Brix than Chasselas and lower acidity! A perfect breeder to |
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8/19/07 |
20.2 |
0.45 |
3.64 |
pair with wild vines.
The pH still rises fast on ripening, but how this |
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9/9/07 |
21.3 |
0.27 |
3.88 |
translates into hybrids with wilds is not known to
me. Very fine grape. |
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| Kay Gray |
8/10/07 |
23.4 |
0.45 |
3.64 |
Still as grassy as ever.
Very sweet and disease resistant.
Makes a |
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8/19/07 |
25.7 |
0.52 |
3.94 |
peculiar, but pleasant wine. Very, very early. |
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| Delaware |
8/10/07 |
21.4 |
0.75 |
3.13 |
Delaware has sterling wine chemistry. If you like subtle foxiness and |
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8/19/07 |
24.8 |
0.52 |
3.37 |
an aestivalis fruitiness, Delaware is unbeatable. Stunning to eat when |
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8/21/07 |
23.5 |
0.42 |
3.57 |
fresh even with small berries and seeds. Its low vigor is welcome here. |
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| Lakemont |
8/10/07 |
19.7 |
0.55 |
3.00 |
Low acidity AND pH. A natural for wild breeding. Very good grape. |
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| Suffolk
Red |
8/10/07 |
21.0 |
0.47 |
2.99 |
Ditto as for Lakemont. Strong grower, neutral, open clusters. |
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| Muscat St. Vallier |
8/10/07 |
18.9 |
1.28 |
3.11 |
Nice dual-purpose grape.
Very dense shoot production and is weak- |
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9/9/07 |
24.0 |
0.50 |
3.69 |
moderate in disease resistance. Still, outstanding eating quality. |
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| Aurore |
8/10/07 |
19.6 |
0.71 |
3.34 |
Perfect wine chemistry, early,
clusters too tight. Neutral is the
word. |
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| Captivator |
8/10/07 |
20.4 |
0.75 |
3.22 |
Super fruity with tropical flavors. Translucent red-orange fruit is a real |
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8/19/07 |
20.3 |
0.30 |
3.45 |
eye-catcher at the market. Haven't made wine from it. |
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| GBC-12 |
8/10/07 |
15.5 |
1.80 |
3.00 |
Wild Vitis labrusca. Early and extremely foxy. |
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| Worden |
8/10/07 |
18.8 |
0.90 |
3.22 |
Early Concord-like fruit. Tastes somewhat like Beta. |
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| Pocklington |
8/10/07 |
20.3 |
0.60 |
3.31 |
A favorite white seedling of Concord. Looks like Diamond and a bit |
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8/21/07 |
21.2 |
0.42 |
3.48 |
stronger but no so much as Niagara. A lovely labruscana wine grape. |
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| Diamond |
8/10/07 |
19.0 |
0.60 |
3.21 |
Truly the gem of the white labruscanas. Beautiful, medium clusters of |
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8/19/07 |
20.0 |
0.75 |
3.35 |
properly packed med-large green-gold berries. No doubt one of the |
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8/21/07 |
19.4 |
0.40 |
3.38 |
finest old-line labruscana hybrids. Appears fairly disease resistant. |
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| Wine King |
8/10/07 |
20.0 |
0.68 |
3.12 |
GROW WINE KING NOT NORTON! Ripens mid-season, large black |
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8/19/07 |
22.9 |
0.67 |
3.25 |
berries in med-large shouldered clusters. Superb wine chemistry, wine |
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8/26/07 |
22.4 |
0.66 |
3.35 |
is fruity and excellent dry with oak aging. Pick on pH, not Brix. Grows |
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8/30/07 |
22.2 |
0.54 |
3.50 |
easily from cuttings, very disease resistant. Not foxy, very dark wine. |
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| Foch |
8/10/07 |
20.4 |
1.42 |
3.16 |
Excellent wine chemistry and wine. Early and vigorous. Again, pick |
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8/26/07 |
23.8 |
0.78 |
3.44 |
based on pH not Brix.
Rich Burgundy-like wine takes ML and oak very |
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8/27/07 |
21.0 |
0.72 |
3.69 |
nicely. I blend
with Lucie Kuhlmann for a very nice wine. |
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| Schuyler |
8/10/07 |
21.0 |
0.53 |
3.51 |
Early, low acid, large berries and clusters. Neutral flavor screams for |
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8/26/07 |
22.5 |
0.45 |
3.76 |
more use in wine.
Too soon to rate disease resistance.
A lovely grape. |
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| MN1095 |
8/10/07 |
24.0 |
1.88 |
3.05 |
The ultimate northern wine mother. Early and can reach normal wine |
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8/19/07 |
28.0 |
1.57 |
3.21 |
chemistry in the mid-Atlantic with extended hang
time. Takes all other |
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8/26/07 |
25.2 |
1.26 |
3.20 |
pollen easily in breeding and makes copious seed. Similar to Foch in |
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9/2/07 |
24.9 |
0.82 |
3.30 |
appearance and flavor.
Female. Very dark wine. |
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| Mericadel |
8/10/07 |
15.7 |
1.05 |
3.06 |
A true blend of America and Delaware flavor. Pretty good wine chem |
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8/21/07 |
18.3 |
0.48 |
3.42 |
but VERY dark and fruity.
An odd labrusca-ey flavor, not for everyone. |
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| Baco Noir |
8/10/07 |
20.8 |
1.35 |
3.05 |
Baco has very thin skins that make it susceptible to
birds and there- |
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8/27/07 |
22.0 |
1.20 |
3.48 |
fore difficult to let hang to full ripeness. A shame.
If only it could hang. |
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| Lucie Kuhlmann |
8/10/07 |
24.0 |
1.35 |
3.06 |
This is a surprising little grape full of peppery aromas
in its small |
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8/19/07 |
26.4 |
1.05 |
3.24 |
berries. Clusters
are med-long, cylindrical, loose and shouldered. Must |
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8/26/07 |
24.6 |
0.82 |
3.38 |
hang to pH of 3.5 to reduce the strong bell pepper
aroma. Good color, |
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8/27/07 |
24.4 |
0.72 |
3.58 |
disease resistant, vigorous and productive. Early-mid season. A keeper. |
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| Oberlin 595 |
8/10/07 |
25.2 |
1.65 |
3.05 |
This is an acidic riparia hybrid with Gamay that looks a
fair bit like |
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8/30/07 |
25.1 |
0.99 |
3.42 |
Lucie Kuhlmann, but is later and never gets to wine
acidity levels. Very |
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9/13/07 |
23.6 |
1.14 |
3.66 |
dark wine takes ML well to come into perfect
balance. With oak is like Cru
Beaujolais. |
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| America |
8/10/07 |
17.4 |
0.75 |
3.11 |
Strongly
fruity-foxy in a weird way.
Incompletely self-pollinates for |
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9/10/07 |
20.3 |
0.56 |
3.63 |
straggly clusters. Impervious to disease. A good breeder, Wine King is offspring. |
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| Munson |
8/10/07 |
14.0 |
1.50 |
2.98 |
America's mother and a basis of the French hybrids. Female, very |
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9/9/07 |
20.0 |
0.87 |
3.73 |
dark, strong flavor. Decent chemistry for a wild hybrid. Disease
impervious. |
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Brook R22S |
8/16/07 |
21.0 |
1.50 |
3.11 |
A
foxy, riparia wild hybrid. Tiny
clusters and berries. Getting
pulled. |
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| Polk
"white" riparia |
8/16/07 |
24.7 |
3.15 |
2.70 |
Not white. Green shot berries
remain after birds eat black fruit. OK vine |
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"maple leaf" |
8/16/07 |
25.6 |
3.30 |
2.80 |
Typical MN riparia with pretty,
deep sinus leaves. |
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"big cluster" |
8/16/07 |
25.2 |
2.85 |
2.92 |
Med berries and clusters,
neutral, female, early. Should be bred
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"big berry" |
8/16/07 |
22.5 |
2.77 |
2.73 |
Plump medium berries, female,
cluster size not known yet. |
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| Landot Noir |
8/19/07 |
22.6 |
0.82 |
3.46 |
An excellent early-mid red wine grape with fine chemistry
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8/27/07 |
25.5 |
0.70 |
3.67 |
neutral flavor.
Excellent chemistry and good disease resistance. |
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| Rayon d'Or |
8/19/07 |
21.6 |
0.75 |
3.08 |
A lovely white wine grape much like its daughter
Seyval. Flavor is |
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8/21/07 |
21.8 |
0.82 |
3.39 |
richer than Seyval and overcrops even more. Roots extremely easily |
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8/27/07 |
22.0 |
0.75 |
3.55 |
from cuttings. Why
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| Elvira |
8/21/07 |
19.4 |
0.64 |
3.35 |
Cracked again this year right on
cue - even in a dead dry drought! |
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| Vignoles |
8/21/07 |
23.0 |
1.08 |
3.19 |
Lovely as usual, but those super
tight clusters are a problem. |
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| Cayuga |
8/21/07 |
20.9 |
0.61 |
3.45 |
High pH and sloppy as usual. Disease resistant, though. Jerry likes it! |
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| Amber |
8/21/07 |
19.0 |
0.74 |
3.19 |
Red, female, like Elvira. Didn't crack. Could be a useful mother. |
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| Seyval Blanc |
8/21/07 |
21.3 |
0.70 |
3.25 |
Pick around a pH of 3.35 for a stunningly easy white wine
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8/27/07 |
22.5 |
0.69 |
3.30 |
Needs shoot and cluster thinned to prevent overcropping
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8/30/07 |
20.0 |
0.72 |
3.32 |
to cut secondary crop off if time/labor permits. Makes large, properly |
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9/2/07 |
21.2 |
0.68 |
3.53 |
compact, shouldered clusters of golden berries with a
subtle tropical |
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9/9/07 |
20.5 |
0.51 |
3.56 |
fruit aroma. Needs
cold fermentation to preserve the fruit, otherwise |
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9/13/07 |
22.9 |
0.75 |
3.69 |
the wine is neutral like Chardonnay with a similar
viscosity. |
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Spring seedling |
8/26/07 |
12.0 |
1.11 |
3.27 |
Wild Vitis labrusca. Mid-season, vigorous, disease impervious. |
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8/26/07 |
23.2 |
1.02 |
3.24 |
David Johnson's coignetiae hybrid. Female, early-mid season, small- |
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9/2/07 |
23.6 |
1.02 |
3.39 |
med clusters, fruity.
A great mother for early grapes. Good disease res. |
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8/26/07 |
17.7 |
0.58 |
3.32 |
Must be a labrusca X labruscana
back cross. Very foxy and tough. |
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| Rosette |
8/29/07 |
20.2 |
0.79 |
3.31 |
Rosette takes well to ML fermentation to produce wine
with very good |
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9/9/07 |
23.2 |
0.87 |
3.44 |
balance. Small compact clusters of small-med berries
on productive |
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9/10/07 |
22.3 |
0.84 |
3.44 |
vines. Not
typically recommended for red wine, but it does very well in |
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9/13/07 |
22.6 |
0.87 |
3.59 |
this stead if left to mature to pH~3.5 on the vine. Pretty disease resistant. |
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| Steuben upper |
8/29/07 |
19.4 |
0.53 |
3.42 |
Grow Steuben instead of Concord. Large handsome clusters of large |
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9/9/07 |
18.4 |
0.42 |
3.35 |
berries with a scrumptious muscat flavor. Much praised at market. Makes |
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9/21/07 |
22.6 |
0.45 |
3.64 |
a surprisingly tasty dry red wine loaded with
tannins. An excellent |
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| Steuben
lower |
8/29/07 |
18.1 |
0.38 |
3.37 |
breeding grape having low acidity and good disease
resistance. |
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| Lady Patricia |
8/29/07 |
19.7 |
0.73 |
3.38 |
Herb Barrett's ladyfinger grape named for his wife. A VERY peculiar |
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9/9/07 |
20.5 |
0.73 |
3.54 |
looking, elongate football shaped berry. Very tasty.
Grows well. |
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| Veeblanc |
8/29/07 |
19.1 |
0.72 |
3.23 |
Large clusters of big golden
berries descibed as "a flavor explosion" |
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| Chardonel |
8/30/07 |
22.8 |
0.90 |
3.26 |
More
acidic than Seyval and even more attractive to hornets. There |
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9/9/07 |
25.6 |
0.90 |
3.38 |
may be more bird pecking due to slightly thinner
skins. Still, a nice |
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9/16/07 |
24.7 |
0.90 |
3.28 |
grape, but too much vinifera in it and it is
patented. Oh well. |
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| Romulus |
8/30/07 |
20.1 |
0.69 |
3.18 |
Nice wine grape. Shelled badly this year. Fine flavor. |
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| Gaertner |
9/9/07 |
17.6 |
0.44 |
3.52 |
Big, brick red labruscana.
Female, needs a pollinator. Very good
fruit. |
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| Concord |
9/9/07 |
18.8 |
0.40 |
3.58 |
Disease resistant with pretty
clusters. Yucky smell. Give it up! |
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| Verdelet |
9/9/07 |
21.2 |
0.64 |
3.62 |
A pure taste treat.
Small-medium, ovoid, translucent white berries on |
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9/17/07 |
20.1 |
0.54 |
3.55 |
Villard Blanc like vine.
Beautifully flavored crunchy fruit.
Stunning. |
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| Goethe |
9/9/07 |
19.1 |
0.55 |
3.58 |
Small clusters of med-large, round, brick red, muscatty
berries. My |
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9/21/07 |
19.1 |
0.33 |
3.83 |
favorite labruscana flavor. Powdery mildew sensitive, but oh so tasty. |
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Coin |
9/9/07 |
18.2 |
0.57 |
3.68 |
Very foxy, large, orange-gold
berries. Thick skins like a muscadine! |
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| Hayes |
9/9/07 |
20.5 |
0.45 |
3.89 |
Much like Pocklington. Vine looks more like Concord. Very good. |
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| Norton |
9/9/07 |
23.0 |
1.58 |
3.30 |
Much over-praised for its historical and disease
resistant values. Poor |
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9/27/07 |
24.1 |
0.75 |
3.84 |
wine chemistry is very hard to manage. Leave to the experts, grow Wine King
instead. |
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| Esprit |
9/9/07 |
20.4 |
0.58 |
3.65 |
Beautiful, huge clusters of round, medium, green-white
berries. Hangs |
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9/16/07 |
20.8 |
0.48 |
3.68 |
very well and makes delicious, faintly foxy white
wine. Disease resistant. |
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| Vivant |
9/9/07 |
24.7 |
0.75 |
3.17 |
Some PM this year late.
Golden-pink. Small berries in medium sized |
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9/16/07 |
23.7 |
0.66 |
3.28 |
clusters with fine wine chemistry. Superb wine. Very sweet fruit. |
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| Villard Noir |
9/9/07 |
20.2 |
0.81 |
3.42 |
Let hang for 3.5 pH like the other red hybrids if you
can. Large, oval |
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9/21/07 |
21.5 |
0.87 |
3.46 |
berries in 1# clusters. Very productive. Earlier and lower acid than Chambourcin. |
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| Stevenson Brook R4N |
9/9/07 |
20.2 |
1.99 |
3.08 |
Small foxy riparia seedling from VT. Nothing special. |
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| Chambourcin |
9/9/07 |
19.5 |
1.08 |
3.14 |
Med-large, black beries in large 1-2# clusters. Late and MUST hang |
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9/21/07 |
20.7 |
0.90 |
3.27 |
until the pH reaches 3.5 for wine with reasonable
balance. Takes ML |
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9/30/07 |
22.6 |
0.72 |
3.37 |
and oak well for a delicious dark wine. Largely disease resistant with |
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10/4/07 |
22.2 |
0.74 |
3.57 |
very modest spray.
Should be a mid-Atlantic standard variety. |
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| Traminette |
9/16/07 |
21.4 |
0.60 |
3.25 |
Very vigorous, makes almost
muscat-like wine. Good disease res. |
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| Roucaneuf |
9/16/07 |
19.7 |
0.70 |
3.20 |
Pink-red, medium, oval berries in
mod. loose clusters. Nice vine. |
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| Dattier
St. Vallier |
9/16/07 |
19.4 |
0.68 |
3.43 |
Getting pulled. To thin skinned, hornets trash it. High pH fruit. |
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| Melody |
9/16/07 |
21.7 |
0.70 |
3.32 |
Seems OK, somewhat PM
sensitive. Patented. |
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| Catawba |
9/16/07 |
20.6 |
0.42 |
3.35 |
With little spray makes
magnificent fruit. No wonder it has
lasted. |
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23-512 |
9/16/07 |
21.6 |
0.54 |
3.58 |
A very fine white wine grape
should be grown much more. Productive. |
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| Bacchus |
9/17/07 |
24.3 |
0.90 |
3.35 |
Foxy riparia wine grape. Makes superb jelly. Interesting red wine. |
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| Merlot |
9/17/07 |
20.8 |
0.51 |
3.79 |
Disease prone and low
productivity. Early-mid. Nice, but vinifera. |
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| Cabernet
Franc |
9/17/07 |
21.9 |
0.57 |
3.67 |
ditto |
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| BR7 |
9/17/07 |
24.5 |
1.11 |
3.10 |
Dead upright growth, tasty fruit,
small clusters, female. Disease res. |
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| Rougeon |
9/17/07 |
19.4 |
0.72 |
3.37 |
A perfect blender with Rosette. Very dark, good Brix and balance. No |
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9/21/07 |
20.1 |
0.70 |
3.44 |
problems with biannual production or ozone here. Good disease res. |
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| Herbemont |
9/19/07 |
21.4 |
0.81 |
3.07 |
Very late, old aestivalis hybrid. Large clusters of blue berries almost |
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9/27/07 |
20.5 |
0.86 |
3.22 |
need to go to frost to ripen. Vigorous and healthy vines. Roots with difficulty. |
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| Foxy Vixen |
9/19/07 |
22.3 |
1.59 |
2.99 |
Wild labrusca X cordifolia. Clean, Beta-like foxiness, high solids and |
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10/8/07 |
25.9 |
1.08 |
3.25 |
low acidity for a wild vine. Very late like cordifolia. Med berries & clusters. |
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| 04-3-2 |
9/20/07 |
25.3 |
1.80 |
3.05 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
long, loose clusters of small berries, female |
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| 04-3-14 |
9/20/07 |
27.4 |
2.48 |
3.18 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
self-fertile, heavy crop, mild cordaroma |
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| 04-3-22 |
9/20/07 |
23.3 |
2.13 |
3.00 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
self-fertile, heavy crop, v. mild cordaroma |
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| 04-3-26 |
9/19/07 |
27.9 |
1.42 |
3.18 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
female, long peduncle, mod cordaroma |
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| 04-3-28 |
9/19/07 |
29.7 |
2.25 |
3.25 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
female, 5/16 berries, loose clusters, mild |
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| 04-3-37 |
9/19/07 |
23.3 |
1.41 |
3.24 |
Aurore X FS-2 male cordifolia:
female, mod cordaroma, 3/8" berries |
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| 04-4-3 |
9/19/07 |
24.4 |
1.20 |
3.38 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, 3/8" berry |
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9/19/07 |
27.3 |
2.22 |
3.16 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, early, mild cordaroma |
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9/19/07 |
27.7 |
1.20 |
3.47 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
self-fertile, 3-4" clusters, 5/16" berries, mild |
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9/20/07 |
23.1 |
2.92 |
3.01 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
self-fertile, 3-4" clusters, 5/16" berries, fruity |
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9/20/07 |
25.2 |
2.10 |
3.01 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, 4" loose clusters, citrusy, bloomy |
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9/20/07 |
27.4 |
1.92 |
2.94 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, 4-6" loose, tapering clusters, mod cordaroma |
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9/20/07 |
27.1 |
1.95 |
3.13 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia: female,
3-4" v. loose clusters, long peduncle |
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9/19/07 |
24.5 |
2.40 |
3.05 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia: female, 4"+
peduncle, v. loose, mod cordaroma |
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9/20/07 |
24.4 |
2.22 |
3.02 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, 2'3" loose clusters, mod cordaroma |
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9/19/07 |
23.2 |
2.40 |
3.18 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia: female, 2"
well-filled clusters, mod cordaroma |
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9/20/07 |
26.9 |
1.98 |
3.03 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, heavy fruit set, 6" clusters, tapering, loose |
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9/19/07 |
25.1 |
2.60 |
2.88 |
Seyval X FS-1 male cordifolia:
female, loose 2-3" clusters, mild cordaoma |
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| Villard Blanc |
9/21/07 |
19.7 |
0.72 |
3.37 |
Excellent white wine grape for the mid-Atlantic. Huge clusters to 2# with |
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9/27/07 |
21.4 |
0.81 |
3.42 |
proper wine chemistry make neutral, steely
white wine. Excellent to eat, too. |
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| Neptune |
9/21/07 |
21.0 |
0.75 |
3.38 |
Canning grape. Crunchy.
Disease prone. Pretty, oval,
white fruit. |
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| Vidal Blanc |
9/21/07 |
21.2 |
0.74 |
3.32 |
A lovely wine grape for the mid-Atlantic. Too much vinifera in it, but enjoy |
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9/30/07 |
24.2 |
0.69 |
3.38 |
it in your vineyard and cellar while it survives. Proper wine chemistry, late |
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10/2/07 |
23.5 |
0.63 |
3.61 |
ripening, outstanding wine. Why grow vinifera? Mod. Disease resistant. |
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| Columbian |
9/21/07 |
15.2 |
0.57 |
3.18 |
Big honkin' red berries. Very late and foxy. My biggest labruscana. |
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| XLNTA |
9/21/07 |
18.3 |
0.69 |
3.39 |
Pretty undistinguished
labruscana. Disease resistant. OK for jelly. |
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| Sheridan |
9/21/07 |
20.5 |
0.38 |
3.45 |
Big clusters of red-blue berrries
low in acidity and sweet. Superb
breeder. |
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Vincent |
9/21/07 |
20.0 |
0.78 |
3.36 |
Much like Chambourcin with bigger
berries. |
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| B50 |
9/27/07 |
19.0 |
3.96 |
2.72 |
Very late, wild riparia. |
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| Favorite |
9/27/07 |
24.6 |
0.81 |
3.58 |
Huge clusters, late, excellent
chemistry. Will plant more. |
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| Lenoir |
9/27/07 |
24.2 |
0.90 |
3.53 |
Like Favorite but a bit
later. Tad too late for here. |
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Rose |
9/28/07 |
21.2 |
0.69 |
3.06 |
Very late, large clusters of
purple berries. Labruscana
flavor. PM prone. |
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9/30/07 |
25.4 |
0.75 |
3.22 |
Excellent late wine grape. Should be tested in the south. |
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| Colobel |
9/30/07 |
22.4 |
1.11 |
3.45 |
Very late teinturier grape. Poor chemistry but makes black wine that |
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10/4/07 |
22.1 |
1.14 |
3.59 |
blends well with Chambiourcin or other late
reds. Good diease resistance. |
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| B27 |
10/6/07 |
22.8 |
3.45 |
2.96 |
Wild Vitis cinerea from
Illinois. Disease impervious, leaves
hairy on top! |
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| 03-1-1 |
10/8/07 |
28.7 |
1.65 |
2.95 |
SBC BG cordifolia X Cab. Sauv.:
female, small clusters/berries, late, peppery |
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| 03-1-2 |
10/8/07 |
25.8 |
1.72 |
3.08 |
SBC BG cordifolia X Cab. Sauv.:
S.F., small clusters/berries, peppery |
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| 03-1-3 |
10/6/07 |
22.8 |
1.35 |
3.26 |
SBC BG cordifolia X Cab. Sauv.:
S.F., small clusters/berries, peppery |
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| 03-2-1 |
9/9/07 |
23.4 |
1.52 |
3.39 |
SBC BG cordifolia X Chambourcin: S.F., med
clusters/berries, mild |
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10/6/07 |
28.1 |
0.78 |
3.84 |
cordaroma, otherwise like Chambourcin. Must hang very late. Productive. |
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10/8/07 |
27.6 |
1.05 |
3.69 |
Disease resistant but gets some foliar phylloxera. Earliest of this cross. |
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| 03-2-2 |
9/21/07 |
25.5 |
1.41 |
3.02 |
Bad foliar phylloxera. Getting grafted over to 03-2-1 |
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| 03-2-3 |
10/6/07 |
23.8 |
1.27 |
3.20 |
Like 03-2-1 but with heavy bloom and a bit less loose
clusters. A tad later |
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10/8/07 |
24.4 |
1.33 |
3.20 |
too. Must hang
very late like the 03-2-1. |
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| 03-2-4 |
10/6/07 |
25.0 |
1.89 |
3.03 |
Late, large clusters do not ripen here. S.F.
Getting grafted over to |
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10/8/07 |
25.4 |
2.13 |
3.10 |
03-1-3 |
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| Wagon Trail cordifolia |
9/16/07 |
19.1 |
5.18 |
2.74 |
Wild
cordifolia with a salal berry flavor.
Very sour but hangs well to |
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10/6/07 |
21.4 |
4.80 |
2.71 |
Christmas. Medium
clusters of small berries are very loose. |
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| HPL
aestivalis |
10/6/07 |
23.4 |
3.08 |
3.06 |
Small clusters and berries, very
productive, mid-late season. Fine
selection |
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| Foxy
Vixen seedling #1 |
10/8/07 |
28.4 |
0.77 |
3.89 |
Cordifolia backcross of the Foxy
Vixen. Cherry aroma - no cordaroma |
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| Alphonse de Serres |
8/10/07 |
15.0 |
2.25 |
3.06 |
A very good rupestris selection. Small clusters of med berries. Very |
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10/8/07 |
22.4 |
0.68 |
3.42 |
disease resistant
Amazing chemistry for a wild grape.
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| IL760-2 |
9/19/07 |
24.2 |
2.48 |
2.69 |
Sour, very late, for breeding in
the South. |
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| IL892-1 |
9/19/07 |
20.0 |
3.19 |
2.68 |
ditto |
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10/8/07 |
21.3 |
2.40 |
2.90 |
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Cr. Cinerea |
10/8/07 |
25.2 |
5.10 |
2.77 |
Super-sour, tiny berries and
clusters. V. disease resistant, high
Brix. |
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| PFR
tannic aestivalis |
10/8/07 |
22.4 |
2.55 |
3.26 |
A very fine Blue Ridge
aestivalis. 4-6" long,
cylindrical clusters. Heavy bloom |
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| HPU
aestivalis |
10/8/07 |
18.4 |
1.95 |
3.22 |
A very spicy aestivalis with
3/8" berries in 4-6" cylindrical clusters. |
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| FHR-7
cordifolia (SBCG) |
10/12/07 |
26.2 |
4.58 |
3.10 |
A wild seedling with very good
cordifolia flavor. Productive,
vigorous. |
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| Crump's
cordifolia (SBCG) |
10/12/07 |
26.5 |
3.90 |
2.79 |
ditto |
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Polk, OH, bicolor X riparia, male |
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aestivalis |
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Fink-Brower middle |
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aestivalis |
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Fink-Brower Upper |
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aestivalis |
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Grant's Hollow Lower seedling #4 |
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Grant's Hollow Lower seedling #1 |
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Grant's Hollow Upper |
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High Peak Lower seedling #2 |
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High Peak Lower seedling #4 |
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| HPUS-1 |
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High Peak Upper seedling #1 |
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High Peak Upper seedling #2 |
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High Peak Upper seedling #5 |
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| Jupiter |
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Fabulous muscat |
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| Land
Bridge Trail labrusca |
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wild V. labrusca |
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British favorite |
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| PFR @
gap big berry aestivalis |
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Cabin bicolor |
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