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Providing winemaking supplies, grapes, juices (plus
brewing supplies) for amateur winemakers since 1978.
Update on ripening: We try to pick by pH, flavor, fruit condition,
brix and projected weather.
I will fill in numbers as Tom does the test. Where
there are just brix numbers, he hasn't run test and we have just dipped the
refractometer.
Print out a tartaric
acid chart and a Sugar
Chart.
2008
|
Variety |
Brix |
TA |
pH |
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Aurore |
16.8 |
0.782 |
3.30 |
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Baco |
15.4 |
1.277 |
3.3 |
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Baron's
Blend |
22 |
.638 |
3.2 |
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Cabernet
Franc |
18.5 |
.78 |
3.2 |
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Cabernet
Sauvignon |
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|
|
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Carmine |
|
|
|
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Catawba |
16.2 |
1.277 |
2.90 |
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Cayuga |
18.0 |
.894 |
3.00 |
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Chambourcin |
19.2 |
1.101 |
3.10 |
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Chancellor |
16.4 |
0.702 |
2.9 |
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Chardonnay |
20.4 |
0.734 |
3.20 |
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Chelois no
juice this year |
|
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Colobel |
|
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Concord |
14.4 |
1.117 |
3.3 |
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COROT
NOIR 
Corot Noir white juice
(free run) limited
Corot Noir rose (light press) limited Corot
Noir red juice limited |
14 |
.735 |
2.9-3.00 |
|
deChaunac |
16 |
1.085 |
3.00 |
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Delaware |
19.8 |
0.894 |
3.1 |
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Diamond |
13.6 |
0.766 |
3.00 |
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Foch |
20.2 |
1.005 |
3.30 |
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Gewurztraminer |
20 |
0.527 |
3.5 |
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Hybrid
Blends: |
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Baron's Red |
22 |
.638 |
3.2 |
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Maiden's Blush |
20.8 |
.654 |
3.1 |
|
White Blend |
21.8 |
.670 |
3.00 |
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Blends explained below at the bottom of the page. |
|
Late
Harvest Vignoles |
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|
|
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Leon Millot |
19.4 |
.926 |
3.5 |
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Maiden's
Blush |
20.8 |
.654 |
3.1 |
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Merlot as juice ready! finally |
18.6 |
.894 |
3.10 |
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Merlot as
grapes |
~18-20 |
|
|
|
Muscat
Ottonel |
18.4 |
0.798 |
3.20 |
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Niagara |
13 |
.670 |
3.2 |
| NY
73.1136.17"Noiret" |
16 |
.686 |
3.00 |
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Pinot Noir |
20-22.8 |
|
|
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Ravat-51
Vignoles |
20.8 |
1.101 |
3.00 |
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Riesling Oct
18-21 |
20.5
|
.83 |
|
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Riesling
Oct 23-26 to end of season |
19.0 |
.894 |
3.1 |
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Seyval |
17 early pick
up 19-current |
0.798 |
3.10 |
| Traminette |
18.5 |
0.862 |
3.2 |
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Vidal |
21.0 |
0.798 |
3.30 |
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Vignoles Ravat-51 |
20.8 |
1.101 |
3.00 |
| White
Queen's Blend |
21.8 |
.670 |
3.00 |
EYE OF THE PARTRIDGE
A blend of Chardonnay
and lightly pressed Merlot. |
19.14 |
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Baron’s Blend
is traditionally a blend of Chancellor, Baco, Foch, and Leon Millot. A dark hearty
bodied Bordeaux style.
This year, with a fair crop loss of
Chancellor, Tom used Chancellor- (more
by 5 gallons than Corot Noir), Corot
Noir (red pressed), Foch and Leon Millot. The color is a bit light this
year, as has been in some years past. Skins have been
available.
Prince’s Blend
is a blend of Foch, Leon Millot, and maybe Chancellor. A medium bodied, complex
Burgundy style. This was cancelled this year due to crop loss of major
components.
Maiden's Blush
is a fruity wine best finished with a little residual sugar. It is a blend
of Aurore, Cayuga, usually Chelois, however, due to that shortage, Tom used
another red to color. While it looks dark in your container, it should
lighten with fermentation. We usually recommend a 71B or Cotes des Blanc
for this wine.
This year, with crop loss of Chelois, Tom
used the rose press of Corot Noir, free run of Corot Noir, Cayuga and Noiret (NY
7301). The blends will be different this year and we would like to
hear back from you with your results. The brix was low in the Corot Noir,
but the acid is perfect. Very nice drinking juice also, so is the blush!
White Blend is a combination of
Seyval, Vignoles and Vidal Aurore. All blends are sugar and acid
adjusted.
The White blend for 2008 is Seyval,
Cayuga, Corot Noir, white free run, Vignoles and Aurore,
The percentages vary, the order the
varieties are listed in not necessary in order of volume of those juices used,
however, it is for the 2008 blends.
Thank you for your Patronage!
May all your wines
Fall Bright!
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