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July 2015 WINES&VINES 77 WINE EAST GRAPEGROWING miwinebarrel.com Stainless Steel & Oak Wine Barrels... Midwest, East Coast, Great Lakes, Canada... miwinebarrel 734.398.2028 We now also provide... Custom Stainless Steel Tanks! grape industry members. (Research data from 2005 to 2014 are available on the research page at the CCE Suffolk Grape Program web- site.) Wines are produced from selected culti- vars, providing an opportunity for sensory evaluation. The trial is located in a 1.5-acre block at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Exten- sion Center. Vines are trained to a mid-wire cordon with vertical shoot positioning. Canopy management practices reflect commercial prac- tice including shoot thinning to four to five shoots per foot row, cluster zone leaf removal, crop adjustment and two to three canopy hedgings. Vineyard renovation continues annually. Varieties with mediocre to poor vineyard per- formance or of little interest to industry mem- SAMPLING OF CHARDONNAY CLONES Clone No. Origin Cluster weight Comments 5 Martini Vineyard, Carneros, Calif. 0.50 pounds Late ripening, high acid, tight clus tered 15 Prosser, Wash. 0.35 pounds Looser than Clone 5, typical, balanced 17 Alexander Valley, Calif. 0.34 pounds Robert Young clone, pear 20 Italy 0.30 pounds Sparkling wine clone, lemon, simple 25 Geisenheim, Ger many 0.43 pounds Bright, green ap ple, late ripening 76 Dijon, France 0.35 pounds Aromatic, fine, al mond, balanced 96 Dijon, France 0.40 pounds Aromatic, elegant, sharp, productive 806 Saône-et-Loire, France 0.26 pounds Orange peel fla vor, Muscat aroma NATIVE AND HYBRID VARIETIES Parentage Performance Norton V. aestivalis, first released in 1830 Ultra-late ripening, low yields, poor fruit quality. Vines removed after five years. Mar quette V. riparia, V. vinifera (in cluding Pinot Noir), other Vitis species Modest yields, vigorous vines. Not suited to VSP. Aran dell Other hybrids, V. cinerea, V. rupestris Vines removed due to leafroll virus. Tolerant of mil dews, susceptible to black rot on fruit and phomopsis shoot infections. Aro mella Includes Ravat, Traminette and Gewürztra miner Vines entering third year. Long, loose clusters. GBM magnet in 2014. NY 81 Cayuga White x Riesling Vines entering third year. Clusters resemble Cayuga White, long and cylindrical. Growers impressed with Riesling-like fruit flavors in 2014. Petite Pearl Cold-hardy hybrid released by private breeder T. Plo cher Planted 2014. Supposedly very cold hardy and disease resistant. Reportedly ripens well even in cool years. Cluster weight is based on a three-year average, except for clones 20 and 25.