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  • From: Del Stubbs <northernlights2n@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 2007 Hardy Grape Notes
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:23:28 -0700 (PDT)

Glad to hear St. Croix can make wine, I haven't added that one to my planting
yet. I
misstated a little on the Valiants, we made 4 half gallon containers from 4
plants - but
we sometimes dilute it about 1 to 1 to drink it - it is so concentrated.
Del

--- mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net> wrote:

> Del: How many Valiant plants did it take to generate 4 gallons of
> juice?
>
> Thanks for the report. Here in SW WI we had 3 1/2 weeks of non-stop
> rain. 80% of my grapes split & exploded & the bees & ants made quick
> work of them. I did manage to salvage 2 gallons of juice from 5 St
> Croix plants which was promptly turned into a merlot which we did an
> early tasting of yesterday. I'm definitely not gonna have to worry
> about bottling the wine because it will disappear quickly.
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Del Stubbs wrote:
>
> > Here are my notes from this season, I am trialing several other
> > varieties but they have
> > not fruited yet.
> > (Our location in N. Minnesota was listed as zone 2b, but we don't
> > even see minus 40 that
> > often anymore so I have changed my designation to 3b) Heavy soil,
> > drought conditions mid
> > July to mid Sept. - but plants showed little stress.
> > All grapes were juiced with a Victorio strainer.
> > Grapes: Sept. 16, 2007 picked all grapes after 2nd hard
> > frost of season.
> > Beta: Sour, must add sugar, poor flavor, (graft over or remove)
> > Blue Bell: Very productive, very large berries, needs a little
> > sugar, never got blue -
> > reddish cast - fully ripe? were very juicy, try mixing with
> > sweet apple juice
> > Frontenac: Pleasant as fresh eating (only had one little bunch on
> > new plant).
> > Monitor: - Too tart to eat fresh, dark juice, overipe, splitting
> > berries, needs some
> > sugar to make drinkable juice, ok as juice, full flavored.
> > 1729: Berries are the size of valiant, looser bunches, rich flavor
> > (not as rich flavor as
> > valiant of course, but even sweeter), super sweet! I have no idea
> > who the breeder is or
> > if number is hyphenated. ( Anyone familiar with this grape?)
> > ES 8-2-24: - Birds ate 50%, mild good fresh flavor, fully ripe,
> > some acid, good wine?
> > questionable as table grape
> > sufficiently sweet, good juice, vino?
> > DM 8521-1: - Very small berries this year, putsy to hand strip,
> > wife's favorite for fresh
> > eating, dark juice, fully ripe, she might prefer it over even
> > valiant as juice because it
> > is smoother, so gets an A as juice, I believe it has Merlot in
> > its background. Eager to
> > try for vino!
> > Sueltor: - Large berries, easy to strip, fully ripe, dark juice -
> > pleasant if a little
> > sugar and water added.
> > Troubador: Next in flavor to valiant, fully ripe, but irregular
> > ripening, many small
> > green berries, ok for juice.
> > Valiant: Picked Sept 7, very productive, very flavorful and sweet,
> > little bird predation,
> > made 4 gallons of concentrated juice.
> >
> >
> >
> > Del Stubbs www.pinewoodforge.com zone 3a N. MN
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Del Stubbs www.pinewoodforge.com zone 3a N. MN



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