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Grape Varieties
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Chambourcin Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: Blue Grape Variety: Hybrid Training of Vines: Top Wire Cordon Rootstock: 3309 Spacing: 6ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2007 Harvest: Late Season Uses: Wine
Characteristics: A late-ripening grape that produces a highly rated red wine when the fruit fully matures. It requires a long growing season and a site less subject to low winter temperatures. The large, moderately loose bunches set medium-sized blue berries.
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Cynthiana (Norton) Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: Blue Grape Variety: American Training of Vines: Top Wire Cordon Rootstock: Own Spacing: 6ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2009 Harvest: Late Season Uses: Wine
Characteristics: Small to medium clusters which bear firm, round, black berries. Ripens very late. Natural hybrid of Labrusca and Aestivalis.
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Dornfelder Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: Red Grape Variety: German Training of Vines: VSP Rootstock: 101-14 Spacing: 4ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2007 Harvest: Late Season Uses: Wine
Characteristics: Ripens early and produces wine far deeper in color than your typical German reds. It was initially bred in 1955 as a blending wine to improve the color of pale reds. Currently used on its own to produce a fragrant, full-bodied, complex wine with a fairly tannic acidity.
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Einset Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: Red Grape Variety: Hybrid Training of Vines: Top Wire Cordon Rootstock: Own Spacing: 6ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2007 Harvest: Early Season Uses: Table, Wine
Characteristics: Red seedless grape with a unique strawberry-like flavor. Medium-sized clusters produce bright red, oval berries. Skin is slightly tough and adheres to the tender flesh.
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Rootstock 3309 Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: NA Grape Variety: NA Training of Vines: Top Wire Cordon Rootstock: Own Spacing: 6ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2009 Harvest: NA Uses: Propagation, Decoration
Characteristics: Standard rootstock in the Eastern United States. Vigorous male sterile variety with attractive leaves and shoots. Great for decorative arbors where fruit is not wanted.
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Root Stock 101-14 Location: Athens, TX Elevation: 480ft +/- 10ft Soil: Sandy-Loam Color: NA Grape Variety: NA Training of Vines: Top Wire Cordon Rootstock: Own Spacing: 6ft Yield per Vine: NA Year Planted: 2009 Harvest: NA Uses: Propagation, Decoration
Characteristics: Standard rootstock in the Eastern United States. Vigorous male sterile variety with attractive leaves and shoots. Great for decorative arbors where fruit is not wanted.
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