Looks like a misspelling, but it’s my name for a grape found growing here at Peaceful Bend.
This guy seems to just want to be wine. It is a volunteer vine located near our crush pad. Most years, the majority of it’s crop makes it through to harvest, without any intervention whatsoever. This alone makes it a great candidate for cultivation. It has a relatively small berry, similar to Norton, but the tannins are considerably higher, which really sparks my interest, and spawned the name.
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Clyde, is this the wild vine near the door of the store? If so, I have a couple dozen seedlings (from seeds sent by Dorothey) up here in Montreal. I plan to transplant them to KC in the Fall, where I can observed and select from them. I’ll keep you posted if I run into anything exciting.
Best to kT–
George
It is indeed the same vine, George. There are two separate vines in that area. They look similar but have distinctly different character on the palate: most specifically is the elevated tannin level in this vine, which is of course a big nagging deficit for grape varieties currently being grown in this area. Hopefully this late spring will translate to a later harvest and I’ll squeeze some time out to vinify a small batch of one or both of these and see how the wine is. I have to believe that they would both have some nice characteristics as wine.