| Show THE BEST GRAPES FOR WINE the alta aua gives the following information I 1 as the result of a conversation with with an experienced I 1 cd grape grower wine growers have been anxious to ascertain which grapes are best sul sui suited teil tell to m make a ke wine in Gali gaii california fornia and heretofore there has been no agreement among them most of them As as a matter of prudence planted the mission grape grade and others who could afford to take risks were too busy with other matters and many were not nol sufficiently well versed in the business to feel confidence in their experiments behave we have lately had opportunity to converse with schram an intelligent winegrower wine grower of napa valley who has communicated his experience to us in hi conversation and gestate ve state themly them inthis this paragraph his vineyards area situated in the mountain feet above the level of the creek 25 miles by the road from napa city donihe osithe western side of the valley the exposure to the east and southeast one viney tiney vineyards ardUs on a slope too steep for the plow another is nearly level the alow so soil il Is s rei red gravelly clay wi with th as much moisture as grape sneed lg ig 16 calit fed lei different results might be bexon N ob bained the mission vine though a great greit bearer lacks flavor androes and does not deserve to be made the main stock of the vineyards though an excellent bearer bearor and a hardy vine there thera are other va varieties rie which are equal t to it in those respects and ind superior to ic in other points not less import important tnt int the quantity wine that the mission grape grape will arb TT duce duee to theja e ere cre 1 A I depends part partly 1 I 1 A upon inon the he age of tho tihes I 1 th e osoli tele thelea seat son the style of pruning fig and ana cultivation but the average yield of good vineyards six years old oid ld is nearly 1000 gallons to the acre the german or golden chasselas bears as well as the mission and the berry is excellent either for white wine or for the table schram thinks it the best of all the wine grapes and arid superior to the henfen tal which isi its equal in iff hardiness productiveness and makes a red wine thought ba some persons to be the best tb the e latter grape is said by some persons to be the same as the black st peters I 1 black nice and purple damascus the black Malvo isle isie or Ti naud bears hears as much as a the aud and is excellent for wine the burger called also the alva or bucchero But chero also equals the mission in yield and makes a splendid light white whre wine the black burgundy or merlau the running burgundy and the white green produce each cach about twenty per cent less less than the mission and all are excellent both for the tableland tab leand for wine the chasselas fontainebleau yields thirty per cent less than thab the mission but the berry is I 1 very nine fine both for wine and for the table the essling Ei Ri black Ca brunet the Tra miner gray burgundy and the white Muse Atella atelia yield forty per cent less than the mission but are very fine for wine and the table schram prefers the be last named grape to the muscat of alexandria for the market because it is a better bearer the muskiness of flavor is equally strong and the grape is far better betters suited i for makin making wine either dither alone alan 6 or mixed inix ed with other ther 0 varieties varlet tarlet leg lei but the wi newill not nop thrive in places where there is 19 any fog the chasselas fontainebleau ripens two or three weeks before the mission grape I 1 and all the others named hamed above with the mission for light wines then in Sch rams experience the best beat grapes are the golden chasselas the tho burger the white Muse atella atelia tle tie the chasselas fontainebleau and aad the white green and for red redwine wine the henfen thal the black volsie the black t burgundy the running 11 burgundy I 1 black Ca brunet and the he the I 1 tein tuner French for fb dyer byerl thrives as well here as in france it produces a juice so strong in its dark red color that a few grapes are enough to rel fel the the berry is worthless worthies s dorany dy purpose save coloring theline the wine of af other othen iler tier grapes white nice called also the white lisbon white st peters white tokay black Fl hamburg amburg rose bose of peru and flaming tokay bear well and are good for the table but cannot be re commended for wine the catawba and isabella when pruned long add and io d trained up carefully on arbor or bear well and their grapes are sweeter and have more af pf their peculiar flavor than thith in in the eastern hastern states they suffer under short pruning and should not be planted with other vines for if trained long they shade theophers the others and injure them the black morocco the napoleon and muscat of alexandria are fine table grapes but do not set or ripen well schram plants his vines in rows seven feet apart and three and a half feet apart in the rows |
