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White Wine Grapes

Aurore grapes

Seyval grapes The white object is a man's hat to provide perspective to the size of the bunch.

White Varieties

• Aurore --Aurore grapes make a neutral white wine. The fruit is delicious to eat. It is a heavily bearing vine that needs to be thinned by removing immature clusters early in the growing season. The grape skins are thin and prone to splitting in wet conditions.

• Vignoles--This variety is a shy producer so far in Sugar River Vineyard. However, half the vines were planted in 2001 and the rest in 2002. It shows great promise for making a very high quality wine.

• Delaware
• Traminette
• GW-5
• Riesling
• St. Pepin
• Seyval Seyval grapes are about at the northern limit of their growing range without some kind of winter protection. The following is a picture of my grandson holding two clusters of Seyval grapes, each weighing over a pound.Another cluster can seen behind his left elbow which is nearly as big as the two he is holding. Because of its tendency to have relatively huge clusters, Seyval vines need to have the clusters thinned early in the growing season.