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WineEast Noiret on HWC/6-foot spacing exhibits excessive vigor. treatments ranked second and fourth. Analysis of wines produced in 2010 indicated that the wine from the HWC/6' treatment was significantly preferred to wine produced from LVSP/6' and ranked first and fourth, respectively. OldeTraditionSpice_Oct09.qxp 9/2/09 9:26 AM Page 1 Mulling Spice For Wine In Tea Bags! An ideal compliment for your wine sales. The tea bags are all natural, no sugar! Can be used to make: Glogg, Wassle or Gluvine. 8 bags in attractive box, 24 boxes per case. OLDE TRADITION SPICE 800-977-1117 www.oldetraditionspice.com Trademarks Copyrights Marketing Merchandising Social Media Internet Traphagen Associations Law PLLC Intellectual Property for Business, Media, and the Arts Washington DC * (202) 349-4172 * traphagenlaw.com 94 W in e s & V i ne s OC TOB E R 20 13 Discussion In 2010, training system, vine spacing and root system all impacted yield and the crop-load ratio with LVSP, tighter vine spacing (6 feet) and own-roots, all resulting in lower crop-load ratios and lower yields through reduced cluster weights. Vertical shoot positioning has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce yield as a result of excessive canopy density in other hybrid cultivars unless the canopy is divided with a training system such as Scott Henry. In this study, yield per foot of canopy increased with greater spacing, which differs from results reported for other hybrids, where increased spacing had limited influence on yield of Chancellor (Reynolds et al. 1995) and reduced yield of Seyval Blanc (Reynolds et al. 2004). However, pruning weight per foot of canopy was considerably lower in those studies compared to the pruning weights reported here for Noiret. This may indicate that vines in this study were considerably more vegetative than those in comparable studies, a suggestion supported by the exceedingly low crop-load ratios reported here (approximately 3-4) compared to those reported for Chancellor (five-year average of 11-16) (Reynolds et al. 1995) and Seyval Blanc (five-year average of 18-22) (Reynolds and Wardle 1994). Pruning weights in this study suggested that Noiret vines can grow much larger than initially reported in the cultivar description. Yields reported here for HWC were in a similar range as those reported by Reisch et al. (2006). However, yield of LVSP was considerably lower than HWC in 2010. Compared to other hybrid pruning weight data reported in the academic literature, Noiret in this study was larger than every hybrid cultivar other than Corot Noir and Chancellor. Crop-load ratios in this study were in a similar range to those reported in the cultivar description for a New York planting, but were considerably lower than crop-load ratios reported for Noiret in Vincennes, Ind. (7.5), and West Lafayette, Ind. (6.4), over a six- and 10-year period, respectively (Reisch et al. 2006). Although the cultivar release bulletin suggested that cluster thinning may be helpful in some years, the young vines in this study were overly vegetative and did not produce enough fruit. While there is no specific recommendation for an appropriate crop-load ratio for Noiret—or for hybrids in general—recommendations have ranged from 8 to 12 (Bordelon et al. 2008). Management practices to increase the yield of Noiret need to be pursued.