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Dimensions
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| Couderc 4401 |
3.22 |
0.98 |
18.3 |
8/18/2009 |
to
bird predation, but netted it should hang well into September for some
fantastic |
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Couderc
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| Schuyler |
3.37 |
0.58 |
20.6 |
8/18/2009 |
the
pH stays down like a lot of labruscanas.
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Schuyler |
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de
noirs white wine, it would be smashing.
Beautiful, big, fruity and pretty healthy. |
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Oh,
Diamond, why aren't you grown as much as Chardonnay? The people love you |
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| Diamond |
3.29 |
0.5 |
16.9 |
8/18/2009 |
for
your grapes AND for your wine. Don't
even bring up a comparison of suitability |
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Diamond |
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for
growing in the East. Big, berries,
intensely fruity, juicy and multi-purpose. What |
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else
could you want from a famous labruscana! |
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Like
Diamond, I can't say enough about Delaware.
Joined by Diamond and Dutchess |
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| Delaware |
3.28 |
0.84 |
19.0 |
8/18/2009 |
in
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be hearing about vinifera in the World and stores, THIS is the kind of grape
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wine
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previous Virtual Vineyards for my praise. |
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My
best flavored muscat. Seedless, large
berried, large clustered, purple and overall |
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| Jupiter |
3.28 |
0.54 |
18.0 |
8/18/2009 |
simply
stunning. The vine could be more
disease resistant, but the fruit is so good |
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Jupiter |
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it
is worth caring for. Went into the '09
mylonite white to add fruitiness. My
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vine
yielded an amazing 17.94# this year cane pruned. And a great parent, too! |
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I
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| Romulus |
3.06 |
0.81 |
19.1 |
8/18/2009 |
picked
early. Of the Ontario X Thompson
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Romulus |
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wine grape to me, even though it is seedless.
Still hanging in there after six years. |
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Can
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| NY Muscat |
3.38 |
0.52 |
19.8 |
8/18/2009 |
muscat
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not very vigorous, it remains to be seen how long it survives on its own
feet. Still, |
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it
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Captivator
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| Captivator |
3.37 |
0.45 |
18.0 |
8/18/2009 |
having
a translucent red-orange color with gray bloom it is hard to pass up. Its flavor |
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best described as "Captivating!"
Someone please make wine from this! |
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And
then there is Winchell.
Unbelievable. Clearly this
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| Winchell |
3.31 |
0.57 |
21.4 |
8/18/2009 |
Delaware
and Dutchess as a top labruscana for white wine. Stunning clusters of |
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Winchell |
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Big
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| Swenson White |
3.41 |
0.58 |
20.0 |
8/21/2009 |
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Probably not much advantage her over older |
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This
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3.54 |
0.39 |
16.4 |
8/21/2009 |
Rommel's
chemistry develops. In the Elvira
class, it is very healthy and the fruit |
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2.92 |
0.7 |
16.6 |
8/24/2009 |
16.9#/vine
at harvest 8/31. This is an excellent
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| Rayon d'Or |
3.17 |
0.67 |
19.4 |
8/31/2009 |
its
daughter Seyval Blanc. It is healthy,
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tight. Yet, it crops faithfully with
minimal problems. Just keep the GBM's
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clusters to reduce cracking and rot and you'll be home free. (GBM = grape
berry moth) |
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3.14 |
0.64 |
19.6 |
8/24/2009 |
What
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| Seyval Blanc |
3.42 |
0.75 |
23.2 |
9/4/2009 |
wine
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22.6 |
9/7/2009 |
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3.16 |
1.35 |
20.1 |
8/24/2009 |
Baco,
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| Baco Noir |
3.38 |
1.05 |
21.0 |
9/16/2009 |
terms. The acidity of the riparias and their
hybrids seems to linger forever, long after |
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1.36 |
20.5 |
8/24/2009 |
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| Oberlin 595 |
3.22 |
1.06 |
22.6 |
8/31/2009 |
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week or two more. I love the long,
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0.81 |
23.4 |
9/7/2009 |
dark
color. The pepperiness is
delicious. As rank as Baco Noir, but
the fruit is a very |
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1.02 |
21.4 |
8/24/2009 |
The
Foch got fully ripe this year and what a treat! This is a superb red wine grape for |
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| Foch |
3.46 |
0.79 |
23.3 |
9/7/2009 |
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My
Lucie/Foch/O595 blend I call "Tobacco Row Moutain Red." It is one of my dry |
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| Lucie Kuhlmann |
3.36 |
0.81 |
19.6 |
8/31/2009 |
wine
customers' favorites and is in short supply.
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Now
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3.21 |
1.27 |
19.9 |
8/24/2009 |
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3.33 |
0.97 |
25.6 |
9/20/2009 |
Harvested
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version of Vignoles. |
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3.08 |
1.23 |
20.7 |
8/24/2009 |
My
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3.35 |
1.09 |
22.3 |
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3.18 |
1.12 |
19.0 |
8/24/2009 |
leaves
so they are never flat or perfect. The
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WOW! How's that for early?! Kay Gray always is one of my first grapes
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3.62 |
0.4 |
20.6 |
8/24/2009 |
ripe. With its peculiar gooseberry-ish flavor, I
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Sample
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3.02 |
1.3 |
13.0 |
8/25/2009 |
lovely
white-yellow, Aurore is really a nice grape if you can protect it from the
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A
vinifera-lover's version of Delaware!
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3.17 |
0.6 |
19.6 |
8/25/2009 |
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most outstanding mild Delaware flavor with lower acidity and nearly as high
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0.38 |
16.7 |
8/25/2009 |
very
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There
goes that pH up while the acidity remains!
Cayuga is a nice vine, but with so |
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3.41 |
1.02 |
17.7 |
8/25/2009 |
many
wine grapes that have better chemistry here, why mess with it? Other than |
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Dr.
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3.19 |
0.84 |
15.0 |
8/25/2009 |
grafted
on a riparia seedling and it cracked spectacularly this year - worse than
Elvira! |
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3.51 |
0.42 |
16.7 |
8/25/2009 |
leaves,
but the fruit is just the kind of traditional labruscana flavor I want for my
Vixen |
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Pocklington |
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Gris
wine. A healthy, productive vine that
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I
decided to try to graft over half my Golden Muscat this year because it isn't
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3.15 |
0.7 |
17.0 |
8/25/2009 |
most
productive and cracks. None of the
grafts took! Still, it works in well
into the |
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Golden
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Vixen
Gris for timing and flavor so I'll keep what's left. |
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Very
mild labruscana flavor with tight, fist sized clusters of blond, elongate
berries. |
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| Rebecca |
3.52 |
0.33 |
16.7 |
8/28/2009 |
A
favorite at my grape tasting for the Munson Centennial meeting in
September. Vines |
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Rebecca |
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Here
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| "Miakota" |
3.47 |
0.51 |
19.1 |
8/30/2009 |
nickles,
its flavor is like Himrod but the texture is meaty with a chewable skin that
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06-62-3 "Miakota" (Lindley X Himrod) |
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down
in a very peculiar, favorable manner.
Female and ready to accept your favorite pollen! |
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This
is a particularly lovely little grape with medium berries on open clusters
and small |
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| "First Rose" |
3.32 |
0.56 |
19.8 |
8/30/2009 |
seed
remnants that are easily chewed. The
berries look and taste a lot like Munson's |
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Ambers
06-48-9 "First Rose" (Last Rose X Canadice) |
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Rose, but this one is fairly early.
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purple-blue berries on a delicate rachis.
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| "Juice Bag" |
3.04 |
0.66 |
18.4 |
8/31/2009 |
before
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06-53-3 "Juice Bag" (Last Rose X Reliance) |
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seeds, but you don't really notice them.
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Oberlin's
curious hybrid of Taylor and Chasselas.
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9/4/2009 |
sweet. Vine is healthy and productive. Fruit is neutral in flavor like Chasselas, |
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is much sweeter and more acidic.
Useful in breeding and wine. |
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| Ravat 34 |
3.48 |
0.79 |
19.4 |
9/4/2009 |
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that crops dependably and is healthy.
It seems to do very well with cane |
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| Chasselas (own rooted) |
3.53 |
0.58 |
17.0 |
9/4/2009 |
The
old vinifera table grape of France that tastes like a tea-sweet
water-bag. I just |
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Chasselas
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3.95 |
0.58 |
14.0 |
9/4/2009 |
don't
get those folks' tastes. Anyway, as
vinifera go the vine does well and it is quite |
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Chasselas
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how well the own-rooted vines are surviving my heavy phylloxera. Still, graft. |
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| Chardonnay |
3.35 |
0.78 |
20.9 |
9/4/2009 |
See
that chemistry? That's what makes this
the favorite grape for the factory winery. |
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Chardonnay |
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Another
Euro-table-grape with tea sweetness and a watery muscat flavor. While great |
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3.79 |
0.63 |
14.1 |
9/4/2009 |
for
adjusting the chemistry of our wild vines in hybrids, I'm not sure what the
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love
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listed as a synonym of Muscat of Alexandria. |
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| Chardonel |
3.21 |
0.9 |
20.7 |
9/4/2009 |
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probably suffering phylloxera and don't like being dry. I don't give them much |
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time. Graft your Chardonel if you want
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While
my Vivant isn't terribly downy mildew resistant, it does crop well
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| Vivant |
3.22 |
0.81 |
22.4 |
9/4/2009 |
and
makes a much cleaner wine than Cayuga.
It would benefit from Captan closer to |
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than I am willing, but I get good fruit although a bit low pH picking on
fruit condition. |
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| Lady Patricia |
3.36 |
0.81 |
19.6 |
9/4/2009 |
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Another
industrial grape par excellence. Just
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| Pinot Gris |
3.34 |
0.7 |
20.5 |
9/4/2009 |
What
a great thing when you've got 37 truckloads of umpteen bajillion tons of this
stuff |
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be ready to paint on the fungal prophylaxis. |
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Of
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3.53 |
0.72 |
20.4 |
9/4/2009 |
something! It also seems to help the downy mildew
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| Traminette |
3.08 |
0.94 |
19.0 |
9/4/2009 |
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Now,
this makes me sad. I REALLY want to
taste a varietal Keuka wine. I suspect |
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| Keuka |
3.47 |
0.54 |
18.7 |
9/4/2009 |
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Keuka is stellar. Beautiful red grapes
on big, close packed clusters. What a
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Wow,
what a grape! Esprit continues to
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| Esprit |
3.43 |
0.7 |
18.0 |
9/4/2009 |
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berries that hang and hang with no interest to the birds. The wine is much |
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0.34 |
18.2 |
8/31/2009 |
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3.35 |
0.64 |
18.7 |
9/4/2009 |
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has perfect white wine chemistry.
Throw in its beautiful muscat-labruscana aroma, |
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3.40 |
0.54 |
16.4 |
9/4/2009 |
I'm
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3.59 |
0.67 |
18.3 |
8/30
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similar to America in chemistry, yet the wine flavor is much more pleasant
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| Mericadel |
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0.58 |
16.3 |
9/4/2009 |
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the hyridization with Delaware. Very
much like America in vine character, but the fruit |
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better and is more productive. I'll
keep these. Works well in my Blue
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Still
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| Buffalo |
3.49 |
0.63 |
19.0 |
9/4/2009 |
Steuben. Wine chemistry is great, and the vines are
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Buffalo |
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| Dutchess |
3.33 |
0.61 |
19.0 |
9/7/2009 |
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grapes this year. What a treat! Where is Dutchess now? Like Delaware it is |
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18.4 |
9/7/2009 |
Look
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| Lindley |
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0.28 |
20.1 |
9/8
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I
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3.49 |
0.6 |
20.5 |
9/7/2009 |
productivity. If wineries and grape growers weren't such
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3.24 |
0.69 |
20.0 |
8/24/2009 |
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| Wayne (USDA PI588125 “Wine King”) |
3.42 |
0.57 |
20.6 |
9/7/2009 |
nice
vine with proper vigor and crop load.
The grapes are gorgeous. The
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And
here is a good blending partner for Wayne!
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| DeChaunac |
3.26 |
0.84 |
21.4 |
9/7/2009 |
from
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A
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20.3 |
9/7/2009 |
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Vitis
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small,
but the fruit has red pulp. Very good
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MN1095
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| MN1095 |
3.24 |
1.16 |
18.0 |
9/7/2009 |
easily
hang three more weeks from this sample date.
A very good vine and grape for |
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MN1095 |
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| Munson |
3.61 |
0.93 |
18.1 |
9/8
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=
Jaeger #70. The heavy, dark,
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Munson |
| Extra |
3.60 |
0.69 |
21.6 |
9/8
stored to 10/1 |
Fabulous
Munson grape. Much cleaner flavor and
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0.97 |
17.1 |
9/8
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Munson's
super-dark tooth stainer. Big
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XLNTA |
| Alphonse de Serres (V. rupestris) |
3.79 |
1.15 |
19.2 |
9/8
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WIld
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Alphonse
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favorite eating grape. Pure muscat
flavor in crisp, ellipsoidal berries.
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| Pierelle |
3.51 |
0.96 |
18.0 |
9/11/2009 |
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Pierelle |
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Dependable
with lovely yellow berries on big clusters.
Healthy, vigorous and makes |
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| Veeblanc |
3.34 |
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19.2 |
9/11/2009 |
delicious
wine with good acidity. Veeblanc
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One
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| Aramon |
3.43 |
0.69 |
20.2 |
9/14/2009 |
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a fat little clustered grape, so far, and may never be much more as it isn't
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its record in the French hybrids is so strong I want to try to get its pollen
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Aramon's
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| Alicante Bouschet |
3.56 |
0.85 |
18.3 |
9/14/2009 |
acidity
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Alicante
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Squish
it and watch it turn into wine.
Another industrial favorite!
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| Merlot |
3.50 |
0.78 |
19.5 |
9/14/2009 |
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Not
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| Cabernet Franc |
3.52 |
0.7 |
18.6 |
9/14/2009 |
tasting
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3.51 |
0.72 |
21.0 |
9/14/2009 |
Now
dig this chemistry compared to the last two.
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| Rosette "B" |
3.57 |
0.57 |
23.2 |
9/16/2009 |
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Rosette
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| Landot Noir |
3.58 |
0.8 |
21.8 |
9/14/2009 |
really
good wine. Not grossly productive yet,
but these vines are young. The birds
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| Ambers 06-46-3 |
3.20 |
1.44 |
21.0 |
9/19/2009 |
First
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3.21 |
1.23 |
20.7 |
9/25/2009 |
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21.4 |
10/13/2009 |
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6"
elongate-conical clusters, 1/2" berries, blue-brown skins, browning
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Eumelan
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