Providing winemaking supplies, grapes, juices (plus brewing
supplies) for amateur winemakers for over 25 years.
Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe
10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 14837 607-292-3995
HOURS
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.
Previous brix histories
Print out a tartaric acid chart
and a Sugar Chart. Calcium
Carbonate strongly recommended for use this year before fermentation or if
fermenting on the skins, immediately after pressing. Treat
1/3 of the volume.
For availability see the grape, juice list page
|
Variety |
Brix | TA | pH |
|
Aurore |
NA | NA | NA |
|
Baco |
16.2 | 1.725 | 2.75 |
|
Baron's Blend |
22.4 | .84 | 3.25 |
|
Baron's
Blend picked up after Oct 27 |
22.5 | .859 | 3.25 |
|
Cabernet Franc |
20 | TASTE GOOD | |
|
Cabernet Sauvignon |
21-22 | TASTE GOOD | |
|
Carmine |
17 | ||
|
Catawba Tom helped this out with some of the blends and adjusted a very high original acid to .85 |
15 | .85 | 3.35 |
|
Cayuga |
14 | 1.08 | 3.05 |
| Cayuga after Oct 8 | 14 | 1.14 | |
|
Chambourcin |
17 | 1.48 | 2.95 |
|
Chancellor |
16 | 1.4 | 2.80 |
|
Chardonnay |
19.4 | 1.14 | 3.00 |
|
Chelois |
no juice | ||
|
Colobel |
no juice | ||
|
Concord |
12 | 1.245 | 3.10 |
| deChaunac | no juice this year | ||
|
Delaware |
13 | .99 | 3.35 |
|
Diamond |
14.4 | 1.275 | 3.10 |
|
Foch |
18 | 1.03 | 3.25 |
|
Gewurztraminer |
19 | 0.93 | |
|
Hybrid Blends: |
|||
|
Baron's Red |
22.4 | .84 | 3.25 |
|
Maiden's Blush |
20.0 | .76 | 3.30 |
|
White Blend |
21.2 | .76 | 3.35 |
| Blends explained below at the bottom of the page. | |||
| VINIFERA BLEND | |||
|
EYE OF THE PARTRIDGE A blend of Chardonnay and lightly pressed Merlot. |
21.8 | .77 | 3.25 |
|
Late Harvest Vignoles |
This has been cancelled for 2009 | ||
|
Leon Millot |
17.6 | 1.455 | 3.05 |
|
Maiden's Blush |
20.0 | .76 | 3.30 |
| Merlot juice | 19.2 | .79 | 3.05 |
|
Merlot as grapes |
19.8 | ||
|
Muscat Ottonel |
14 | .90 | |
|
Niagara |
11.5 | .975 | 3.25 |
| NY 73.1136.17"Noiret" | 18 | 1.2 | |
|
Pinot Noir grapes |
20.5-21 | ||
| Pinot Noir JUICE | 18.8 | 1.09 | 3.05 |
|
Ravat-51 Vignoles |
16 | 1.545 | 3.05 |
| Vignoles Oct 10 and after | 16 | 1.40 | |
|
Riesling: Tom used Potassium Bicarbonate to lower the original acid. MUST COLD STABILIZE! |
19.4 | 1.036 | 3.15 |
|
Seyval |
15.8 | 1.185 | 3.10 |
| Traminette | 18 | 1.282 | 2.95 |
|
Vidal |
18 | 1.35 | 2.95 |
|
Vignoles Ravat-51 |
16 | 1.545 | 2.90 |
| White
Queen's Blend "Contessa Bella" |
21.2 | .76 | 3.35 |
| EYE OF THE PARTRIDGE A blend of Chardonnay and lightly pressed Merlot. |
21.8 | .77 | 3.25 |
Baron’s Blend is traditionally a blend of Chancellor, Baco, Foch, and Leon Millot and Chambourcin. A dark hearty bodied Bordeaux style.
Eye of the Pa'tridge Tom's new blend of lightly pressed Merlot and Chardonnay. A wonderful royal pairing. A surprisingly complex and serious rose.
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.
White Blend is a combination of Seyval, Vignoles and Vidal. All blends are sugar and acid adjusted.
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!
