Providing winemaking supplies, grapes, juices (plus brewing supplies) for amateur winemakers for over 30 years.
Our vineyards overlook the Bluff from Hyatt
Hill
on the east side of Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of NY state.
REDS
White
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Carmine
We strongly recommend that customers desiring red wines buy grapes instead of juice since the color and tannin are in the skins. We will crush and de-stem into your container. If you do not have the use of a press or for some other reason wish to purchase juice, we can supply grape skins in a separate container if you make the request in advance. Skins are perishable. They will keep one week in storage. Lately, we have been freezing skins, ask re availability. Please arrange pickup accordingly.
BACO: Big, robust, produces Bordeaux type wines. Needs cold stabilizing and aging for best results. A favorite of many.
CABERNET FRANC: The other CAB. An excellent red wine with less tannin, the leading variety in the St. Emilion District, France. (Sold as grapes only.)
CABERNET SAUVIGNON: The noble red grape of the Bordeaux Region, produces a big, powerful red wine. (Sold as grapes only.)
CARMINE: A vinifera with Cabernet characteristics, holds up to oak, matures early for drinking young. (Sold as grapes only.)
CHAMBOURCIN: Super-premium Red-hybrid. Makes a very fine stand-alone wine and is frequently blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and/or Merlot. Great body and red color, depth and character. Bordeaux type. Should be fermented on the skins. The best astringency and tannin of any hybrid we’ve had. Will age very well.
CHANCELLOR: Premium Red-Hybrid, at one point it was the most planted hybrid in France, makes a fine wine on its own and is a very flexible blender for Bordeaux style or Burgundy type wines with ripe berry character, excellent color, good body, robust depth and character.
CHELOIS: A favorite of many. A light red if made from juice. We find a blend with Chancellor produces excellent wines.
COLOBEL: A full bodied teinturier. A blend of 5% will make a white wine red.
CONCORD: Distinctly labrusca, fruity, best when slightly sweet. Used in small amounts in blending for fruitiness. From a December 2006 newsletter from the NYS Wine Foundation, Canandaigua, NY....GRAPE JUICE is one of the best anti-aging foods as touted by www.msm.com recently, along with sunflower seeds, spinach, beans, sweet potatoes and cheese. In a blurb headlined “Eat Right, Look Good: Foods that fight the effects of aging”, the article noted that besides providing protection from heart attack and stroke, grape juice can also help keep your middle-aged skin from aging. A health authority said, “Grapes are filled with antioxidant polyphenols that help to keep your skin flexible and elastic.” Some of the health benefits of grape juice will be discussed at Viticulture 2007 on February 9 by Dr. James Joseph of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service at Tufts University in Boston; and we will soon be launching a major publicity program on the health benefits of juice made with Concord grapes. Meanwhile, I’ve asked Dan Martello, the talented and creative chef at the Wine & Culinary Center, to try combining all those anti-aging foods in one recipe so visitors can stop aging and start 'younging'.
DeCHAUNAC: Good color, medium body, nice nose. Very nice aged in wood. A good red.
FOCH:
Marechal Foch – Premium Red-Hybrid is a favorite of our
customers – fine stand-alone, burgundy style wines, great color, soft silky
texture, nice finish, fantastic blender with some of the higher acid reds.
Really nice with a kiss of oak.
GAMAY BEAUJOLAIS: A medium intensity red, fruity. A Pinot Noir clone. (No longer available, 2004 vine kill)
LEON MILLOT: (Foster)- Very reminiscent of a burgundy. One of our favorites especially nice fermented on the skins. Early ripening.
MERLOT: Like a deep velvety robe, with suppleness, grace and charm, nice astringency, stands alone or blends well with Cabernet. (Sold as grapes only.)
NY 73.0136.17 "NOIRET" (NY33277 X
Chancellor) X Steuben)
A High Premium red – an offspring of Chancellor. Great color, beautiful
body and structure, characteristic black pepper, sometimes cedar and tobacco,
very nice tannins. A very interesting and attractive stand-alone or nice
blender. Have had some nice blends
with Chancellor, Leon Millot, Chelois and Foch.
Can add a very interesting touch when used as a component of blush wines.
We think this variety has a good future in the Finger Lakes. Makes good wine when hot pressed, fermented on the skins or
cold pressed.
PINOT NOIR: One of the noble reds. Requires careful handling, produces big, excellent wines when fermented on the skins.
PINOT NOIR CUVÉE: A special light pressing of whole berry
Pinot, picked early for your champagne.
This free run presses out light in
color. Not for red wine!
Vincent – A teinturier (staining grape) used for its high pigment content especially when Hot-pressed. It is rather neutral on its own and as such, it is a good blending tool.
BLENDS
Baron’s Blend
is a blend of Chancellor, Chelois, Baco, deChaunac and Colobel. A dark hearty bodied Bordeaux style.Prince’s Blend
is a blend of Foch, Leon Millot, Chelois and Chancellor. A medium bodied, complex Burgundy styleMaiden's Blush, not a red and not a white! Tom has been using the Baron's for color, blended with Cayuga, Seyval and Aurore – a hot seller. Most winemakers finish this one sweet using Cotes des Blanc as a yeast.
QUEEN'S WHITE BLEND, MAIDEN’S BLUSH, BARONS RED, EYE OF THE PA'TRIDGE, PRINCE'S BLEND: All blends are Premium hybrids blended for character and balance. All blends are adjusted (sugar and acid) to take the worries out of winemaking and the price is right.
For grape and juice prices, send for our catalog.
We do not ship grapes or juices, all orders must be picked up at
Fall Bright. We do ship supplies!