Variety pH TA (%) Brix (ref.) date NOTES PHOTOS    
             
Baco Noir 3.30 0.99 19.4 8/16/2008 Blended the early Baco Noir & Landot Noir before analysis.  Oops!  
          Once again, Baco proved very thin skinned bird food.  
                         
Lucie Kuhlmann 3.22 0.87 24.0 8/16/2008 Early-ripening and dependable.  Much loved by the birds and bees  
          but it is tougher than Baco Noir so hangs better.  Clusters not so tight  
           as Foch admit sprays better.  
                         
Foch 3.26 0.90 21.0 8/16/2008 Goes very well with Lucie's pepperiness, above.  Early and closely timed  
          with Lucie.  Tight clusters help keep the birds from getting their beaks  
          around the berries, but cracking inside the clusters can be a problem.  
          This may be from grape berry moth which seems to set it off.  
                         
America 3.27 0.69 20.6 8/16/2008 Moderate fruit set and peculiar America flavor.  A real disease buster!  
          Extremely vigorous and only moderately fruitful.  
                         
Mericadel 3.28 0.66 20.0 8/16/2008 Much toned down aroma from America.  Clusters are similar to Delaware  
          with somewhat larger berries.  Club end of clusters like America.  
                         
Munson = Jaeger 70 3.11 1.23 18.7 8/16/2008 100% native.  A real weed in growth.  Can load up on fruit if pollinated   
          well.  Peculiar in flavor like America.  More disease buster than America!  
                         
Wine King 3.05 0.70 20.8 8/16/2008 The delicate child of America and Norton (once removed).  VERY attractive  
          to critters, especially in this drought year.  Still with potent fruitiness  
          compared to many, but much toned down from America.  Harvested  
           a bit early due to critters.  
                         
Chasselas Dore' 2.95 1.16 16.4 8/16/2008 Translucent green-yellow table grape of France.  Truly Sweetwater.  
  3.59 0.51 15.8 8/25/2008 Goes to slightly acidic sugar with little flavor when ripe.  Great for 1 2  
          combining with natives to ameliorate and retain their flavor.   Does  
          as well as others common in VA.  
                         
Elvira 2.88 1.68 16.5 8/16/2008 Picked early just as it started to crack.  Amazingly dependable in  
          its cracking!  Nice flavor, though.  Try Bell, Rommel or Wapanuka instead.  
                         
Amber 3.01 0.63 17.6 8/16/2008 Probably Minnesota Red Amber.  Scrawny vines with yellow leaves  
          early.  May not like the soil here.  Tasty, mildly foxy fruit, though.  
                         
Ravat 34 3.12 0.69 19.4 8/16/2008 A beautiful early white wine grape.  Big clusters of translucent pink-  
  3.34 0.90 20.4 9/1/2008 white berries are properly compact.  Seems OK on diseases.  
                         
Cayuga 3.22 1.05 17.5 8/16/2008 23.5# off one vine on 10' or trellis!  Grows well, produces well, good  
          disease resistance, pH goes up fast when ripe whille Brix plateaus.  
                         
Aurore 3.21 0.69 19.0 8/16/2008 Like Baco Noir in thin-skinness.  Tight clusters can start to crack if  
          rain falls at harvest.  Still a beautiful thing to behold.  
                         
Romulus 2.81 0.96 18.2 8/16/2008 Shelled again as harvest approached.  Sold most at market - the peoples  
          like it.  Tasty and later than its sisters if it would hang.  
                         
Reliance 2.90 0.60 18.7 8/16/2008 Explodes on cue almost as badly as Elvira.  I usually end up picking it  
          when only half colored, but the peoples at the market still buy it up.  
          It has a lovely grapefruit aroma at that stage.  Huge clusters, too.  
                         
Himrod 3.02 0.59 17.3 8/16/2008 Another huge cluster monster.  I cluster pruned some this year by taking  
          off the main part of some clusters leaving the wings.  This worked pretty well.  
          Quite a nice grape that does pretty well in our heat and humidity given  
          it is half Thompson seedless.  
                         
Wiscoig 3.02 1.44 20.7 8/16/2008 David Johnson's ES2-4-7 X V. coignetiae named this year.  A female  
          breeder with lots of promise for early reds.  Tasty blue fruit flavor and  
          beautiful, well-formed clusters like Landot Noir.  Still a bit acidic, but that  
          could be tamed in one cross.  
                         
Lindley 3.13 0.40 18.0 8/16/2008 Edward Rogers' masterpiece.  Female, big berries on medium clusters.  
          Needs a good pollinator nearby.  Gorgeous light foxy flavor.  
                         
Gaertner 3.23 0.49 18.2 8/16/2008 Like Lindley but with bigger berries, somewhat pulpier, and with thicker  
          skins.  With Lindley it proves the power of Chasselas to transform our  
          native grapes through hybridization.  
                         
Pocklington 3.21 0.55 18.2 8/16/2008 One of my favorites.  An old self of Concord quite a bit like Diamond, but  
          with more pulp-netting inside and a bit more intense foxiness. 1  
                         
Diamond 3.25 0.56 16.8 8/25/2008 A standard old-line variety for a reason.  Healthy like Pocklington with  
          easier to eat fruit having a bit less foxiness.  Makes large crops of very 1  
          pretty clusters shaped like Concord (as does Pocklington).  
                         
Delaware 3.10 0.63 20.0 8/25/2008 A frail, slow grower.  It should probably be grafted on a vigorous rootstock  
          like 3309.  I love these little pink clusters of translucent red pearls.  I have 1 2 3 4  
          to watch eating so many that I "lose my grip!"  
                         
Dutchess 2.98 0.69 19.9 8/25/2008 First fruit this year.  Looks like little translucent white berries in big  
          clusters.  Very mild flavor.  Nice vines so far. 1  
                         
Alice 3.23 0.69 20.2 8/25/2008 This is supposed to be a Martha self.  Vine does look like Concord.  Very  
          sweet and foxy medium-sized, pink berries.  Probably would make a 1  
          superb pink-Catawba style wine with no added sugar.  
                         
Cabernet Franc 3.25 0.79 19.0 8/25/2008 snore. 1  
                         
Merlot 3.32 0.72 19.7 8/25/2008 a bit earlier snore. 1  
                         
Alden 3.36 0.48 16.3 8/25/2008 Alden turns purple and sits there for a month.  A pretty low sugar table  
  3.27 0.56 14.7 9/5/2008 grape for those on low-sugar diets.  The low acidity makes it taste sweet  
  3.42 0.57 13.6 9/8/2008 along with its pronounced muscat aroma.  Crispy and yummy with seeds!  
                         
NY Muscat 3.31 0.42 21.5 8/25/2008 A slow grower like Delaware that would probably benefit from grafting  
          onto something vigorous, too.  Some day I'd like to make a pure varietal  
          wine from it.  Its muscat aroma is equalled only by Jupiter in my vineyard.  
                         
Buffalo 3.25 0.57 21.4 8/25/2008 Superb!  Soooo much better than Concord. Delcious, mulipurpose.  
                         
Rayon d'Or 3.15 1.02 21.0 8/25/2008 Roots from pencil-lead diamter cuttings!  Much like its daughter Seyval  
          possibly with a bit more fruitiness. 1  
                         
Traminette 2.91 1.12 19.8 8/25/2008 Grows wood and leaves like crazy but only moderate crop loads.  This  
          is a weird vine for being half Gewurztraminer.  Tasty grapes, but what a 1  
          jungle.  Got phomopsis pretty badly this year, too.  
                         
Chasselas Musque 3.74 0.57 16.1 8/25/2008 AKA Muscat of Alexandria.  Like Chasselas with bigger round berries  
          and a hint of muscat aroma.  Seems to hybridize well with Natives. 1  
          As healthy as other common vinifera in VA.  A delicious table grape.  
                         
Chardonnay 3.22 0.75 18.4 8/25/2008 double snore  
                         
Pinot Gris 3.21 0.76 22.0 8/25/2008 Early and extremely compact clusters that miraculously did not crack 1  
secondaries 3.11 0.71 20.7 9/25/2008 this and last year.  Great chemistry, but still needs the spray loaded on.  
                         
Gewurztraminer 3.28 0.69 20.3 8/25/2008 Also lovely in chemistry with well formed and properly compact clusters.  
          Distinct muscat aroma, lots of tendrils. 1  
                         
Chardonel 3.00 1.04 19.3 9/1/2008 This thing took the drought very hard.  Only half-filled the trellis.  Definitely  
          requires grafting.  Probably the phylloxera hit it so hard the roots didn't  
          have enough area left to support the vines in drought.  My vines are not  
          grafted on purpose. (So I can tell you about the results!)  
                         
Vivant 3.02 1.02 20.8 9/1/2008 Also a bit weak in the drought, but filled the trellis.  Not as disease  
          resistant as hoped, but it makes some really nice wine. 1  
                         
SV 12-303 3.02 1.26 16.1 9/1/2008 Just a couple clusters this year.  Pulpy, but picked too early to really tell.  
                         
Vignoles 3.11 1.36 21.4 9/1/2008 See previous years of the virtual vineyard for notes.  
                         
SV 23-512 3.26 0.78 20.6 9/1/2008 Fast becoming one of my favorites.  Vigourous and highly productive.  
          Neutral in flavor, medium berries in loose clusters.  So far so good on  
          diseases.  Overall a very good white grape.  
                         
Seyval Blanc 3.11 0.87 21.0 9/1/2008 Did well again even when let to hang a bit long.  Not too shredded by the  
  3.40 0.75 20.8 9/16/2008 critters, birds and hornets even though pressure was extreme.  
                         
Esprit 3.17 0.93 18.4 9/1/2008 This is a cool grape.  Big pounder clusters have med-big berries in   
          moderately loose configuration.  Vines are extremely vigorous and  
          hardly noticed the drought.  Good, solid wine is not foxy.  
                         
Clinton 3.08 1.30 25.4 9/1/2008 A few clusters this year.  Muck like Bacchus.  
                         
Mars 3.18 0.69 18.2 9/5/2008 Mars, like Alden can hang for what seems forever if the critters don't  
  3.13 0.51 15.9 9/8/2008 get it first!  Faint Concord like flavor and seedless.  Very vigorous with  
  3.49 0.40 18.0 10/16/2008 big leaves.  Quite a nice grape that is dependably productive.  
                         
XLNTA 3.15 0.87 18.9 9/5/2008 Munson's 'excellenta."  Weird flavor but interesting.  So far fruit set has  
          been pretty bad, but the vines are young.  
                         
Bokay 3.02 0.93 18.4 9/5/2008 Finally a crop this year and lots of flowers for breeding.  This grape has   
          huge, long clusters of medium white berries with a pleasant frutiness.  
          Mid-south growers should make use of it.  
                         
Ives 3.20 0.75 17.6 9/5/2008 The black, stinky wine fox grape.  Makes stupendous jelly!  
                         
Golden Muscat 3.04 0.45 17.0 9/5/2008 Golden muscat has kind of fallen apart this and last year.  I should probably  
          get it picked when the TA goes below .75%, after which it cracks some and  
          the aroma gets strong attracting the hornets.  Berries browned and fell off  
          late in the season this year.  Very tasty, though, and quite useful.  
                         
Pierelle 3.25 0.90 17.6 9/5/2008 An excellent light muscat table grape.  Great in wine, too.  Makes copious  
          shoots from basal buds so it may need to be cane pruned to keep it under  
          control and shoot thinning to a minimum.  Ellipsoidal berries.  
                         
Landot Noir 3.38 0.78 22.0 9/5/2008 Excellent red wine grape.  Hangs well, minimal disease.  Going into  
          the 2008 "Lynchburger"  
                         
Oberlin 595 3.45 1.12 26.7 9/5/2008 The drought made the berries 0.25" or less in diameter this year.  The  
          wine was balck and resinous.  A stunning compliment to my Kuhlmanns.  
          Very vigorous vines as usual. Good crop with no cluster thinning needed.  
                         
DeChaunac 3.13 0.98 22.4 9/5/2008 Picked too early, but located in my driest row, the vines were starting to   
          suffer.  Some day I'll let it hang to pH=3.45! 1  
                         
Veeblanc 3.12 0.85 16.2 9/8/2008 A very nice, vigorous, large clustered/berry vine.  Has a novel tropical  
          fruit flavor.  Wine came out neutral but a bit sulfury, possibly from weak  
          yeast or too much time on the lees.  With some CuSO4 it shows promise.  
                         
Steuben 3.10 0.57 16.7 9/8/2008 See previous years of the virtual vineyard for notes.  
                         
Dattier St. Vallier 3.10 0.74 14.1 9/8/2008 Tried grafting 4 of 5 over to Wine King.  Only one took.  Will try again  
          this year.  Too thin skinned to take the hornets.  Lousy Brix, too.  
                         
BR-13 3.00 1.18 21.7 9/23/2008 I thought this was BR-7 but genetic testing at Geneva shows it to be McGrew's  
          BR-13 (http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1012137)  
          Wichita refuge (V. rupestris) x Mtzvani (V. vinifera) 1  
          My most upright vine.  Small clusters are tasty and should ripen to good  
          wine chemistry.  Female - excellent for further breeding work.  
          Great pic at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1012081              
Alphonse de Serres 3.54 1.50 21.5 9/23/2008 A superb rupestris selection for breeding (female).  Fine flavor is not wild  
          at all.  Well formed, small-medium clusters of 3/8" berries.  Very dark color. 1  
                         
Norton 3.40 0.94 20.5 9/25/2008 Dig that high acidity at the given pH!  I blended the destemmed fruit with  
          30% Villard Blanc and Shazam - el perfecto chemico!  Norton could  
          color 80% Villard Blanc dark red, so think about the possibilities!  
                         
Favorite 3.15 1.29 20.0 9/25/2008 Picked too early due to drought.  A full crop load and healthy vines, though.  
                         
Villard Noir 3.26 0.93 19.0 9/25/2008 ditto  
                         
Lenoir 3.28 1.30 21.6 9/25/2008 Big, full clusters and lots of them.  This should be much more widely  
  3.42 1.20 22.2 10/8/2008 planted in the SE than it is.  A really nice red wine grape.  
                         
Herbemont 2.85 1.17 18.2 9/25/2008 Somehow the Herbemont just couldn't keep from blowin' after the drought  
  3.00 0.96 16.8 10/8/2008 breaking hurricane rain.  It fell apart pretty spectacularly.  We'll try again  
          in 2009.  
                         
St. Vincent 3.11 1.06 18.9 9/25/2008 The birds mess with this too much before it can ripen.  The berries are  
          quite large and the pine warblers love to peck on them.  
                         
Croton 3.37 0.56 25.6 9/25/2008 An old line cross of Delaware X Chasselas.  Really stunning, translucent  
          white fruit.  Gorgeous flavor.  Should probably be grafted.  Will be using  
          this heavily in breeding in 2009.  
                         
Rebecca 3.78 0.21 17.4 9/25/2008 Dig that acidity!  This is what labrusca blood can do.  A fairly foxy and  
          small grape, but this was my first fruit on it.  
                         
Villard Blanc 3.19 0.76 20.6 9/25/2008 I missed my window due to a market commitment and lost a LOT of  
  3.26 0.93 21.6 10/6/2008 VB fuit to the same brown fruit disorder that hit the Golden Muscat.  It   
          seemed more like an abortive development than a rot, but I don't know.  
                         
Chambourcin 3.19 0.93 20.7 9/25/2008 What a trouper.  Drought or not, crop just the same.  WHY do SE and  
  3.37 1.02 22.2 10/8/2008 Mid-Atlantic growers insist on vinifera reds when they could grow this and  
          make far superior wines given the same effort?  
                         
Rougeon 3.36 0.81 20.0 9/25/2008 My coloring agent for the Rosette.  Too many buds grow on old wood  
          like the Pierelle so it probably needs cane pruned.  Better chemistry than  
          Colobel, but earlier.  
                         
Rosette 3.20 0.86 21.0 9/25/2008 Continues to be dependable and a solid cropper.  Nice chemistry.  Came off  
          early due to critter action.  
                         
04-8-48 2.73 4.12 20.4 9/30/2008 RipCord.  Wild.  Nice 'n' sour.  
                         
04-7-28 2.77 2.70 23.5 9/30/2008 a bit less sour  
                         
04-7-64 2.94 2.10 36.3 9/30/2008 and even less.  This one changes leaf color first of all in the vineyard.  
                         
Zehnder (FL1521 X Diamond Muscat) X O.P. 3.18 1.31 23.9 9/30/2008 Will let hang later as the vine matures.  
                         
04-8-43 2.75 4.50 21.2 9/30/2008 another RipCord  
                         
04-7-43 3.22 1.35 24.4 9/30/2008 and another - great chemistry for a pure native hybrid.  
                         
Foxy Vixen 3.01 1.23 20.8 9/30/2008 My wild labrusca X cordifolia.  Excellent acidity reduction compared to  
          cordifolia. (see next) 1 2 3  
                         
Wagon Trail cordifolia 2.80 6.15 20.4 9/30/2008 My favorite selection from across the road from our house.  Super tart! 1  
                         
Roucaneuf 3.15 0.74 17.3 10/6/2008 Some fruit stopped developing due to drought and I dropped it.  The  
          remainder was pretty well arrested in development.  
                         
Colobel 3.28 1.08 17.2 10/8/2008 Very late and very tough skinned.  Low Brix, but the wine is literally black.  
          Very bird and critter resistant.  An excellent Chambourcin compliment.  
          I hope to improve its chemistry some by breeding.  
                         
Vidal Blanc 3.66 0.78 25.7 10/16/2008 Picked a bit late, but the fruit was still in good condition.  Vines may be  
          declining already from phylloxera.  Too much vinifera in this one.  
                         
wild V. aestivalis blend 3.06 2.35 20.2 10/16/2008 All my aestivalis fruit blended for wine.  It came out quite good.  
                         
03-2-1 3.37 1.44 25.8 10/16/2008 Acidity stays high, but fruit is intact.  Will try to let hang even longer in 2009.  
          cordifolia X Chambourcin, self-fertile  
                         
04-3-2 3.34 1.47 23.9 10/16/2008 Aurore X cordifolia, female  
                         
04-4-44 3.27 2.02 25.0 10/16/2008 Seyval X cordifolia, female  
                         
Black Beauty Muscadine 3.36 0.75 17.2 10/22/2008 Jerry Blankenship's favorite black muscadine.  What a gem.  
                         
03-1-1 3.08 1.62 28.7 10/25/2008 cordifolia X Cabernet Sauvignon, female  
                         
03-1-2 2.80 2.26 25.9 11/4/2008 cordifolia X Cabernet Sauvignon, self-fertile  
                         
03-1-3 3.29 1.64 25.6 11/4/2008 cordifolia X Cabernet Sauvignon, self-fertile  
                         
IL760-2 3.00 2.17 25.8 11/4/2008 Barrett's cinerea X Villard Blanc  
                         
03-2-3 3.18 1.68 24.0 11/4/2008 cordifolia X Chambourcin, self-fertile, very pretty grape  
                         
04-7-53 3.43 1.65 23.6 11/4/2008 RipCord, female  
                         
04-7-69 3.71 1.35 24.7 11/4/2008 RipCord, female, dwarf.  Very low acidity for a pure native hybrid  
                         
Polk heavy bloom riparia 3.32 2.62 24.4 11/4/2008 Nice Ohio riparia  
                         
IL892-1 3.07 2.10 21.0 11/4/2008 Barrett's cinerea X Villard Noir  
                         
Ambers 07-30         Fink-Brower middle aestivalis X Diamond 1            
Dr. Good         Nice seedless white 1            
Zehnder 86-30-1 X OP         first fruit in small clusters of small-medium berries with fruity flavor 1 2 3        
Zehnder (FL1521 X Diamond Muscat) X OP           1 2 3 4      
Wiggins Spring V. labrusca         wild labrusca 1            
Wiggins Spring V. labrusca X Lakemont         hybrid labruscana 1            
vinifera fruit           1            
Villard BlancX Il Primo           1 2 3 4      
Teddy's quarter-20 (04-6)         Polk swamp riparia X Millot 1 2          
Panther Falls Rd tannic aestivalis           1 2 3 4 5 6  
Panther Falls Rd tannic aestivalis X Pocklington           1            
Panther Falls Rd tannic aestivalis X Catawba           1 2 3 4      
Lindley X Villard Blanc           1 2          
IL760-2           1 2 3        
High Peak Upper aestivalis           1 2 3 4 5 6  
High Peak Upper aestivalis seedling #5           1            
Grants Hollow Upper aestivalis           1 2          
Delicatessen         graft 1            
Cabin V. bicolor           1 2 3 4 5 6 7
            8 9 10 11 12 13  
Barrett's B47 V. cinerea           1 2 3 4      
Barrett's B27 V. cinerea           1 2          
Ambers 05-54         Wiggins Spring labrusca X Vivant 1            
Ambers 04-8-43         riparia X cordifolia 1            
Ambers 04-7-43         riparia X cordifolia 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
            8 9 10 11 12    
Ambers 04-7-28           1 2