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Sorry for you!

I love the way you speak about it, it's like an art and a science at the same time. We are in Massachusetts 😂 but maybe someday we will be able to do a countrywide vineyard tour of all our forum growers! Wouldn't that be fantastic!

I'm leaning towards 420A to reduce vigor and increase disease resistance or 3309 since we won't be having issues with our water and because it seems so common and easy. But 101-14 would work as well, I think?

Finally narrowed down the grape varieties after lots of research. The others seem straight forward since they are hardy varieties. But we are getting 10 of cab frac and a few cab sav for fun to see if they make it. New Problem, I didn't realize there were so many options for root stocks...

Which did you end up adding, the Foch or Leon Millot?

Marechal Foch or Leon Millot Which do you prefer to work with? Which do you prefer to drink?

Oh, I am beyond overthinking. We are in New England so AA Vineyards, Northeastern Vine Supply. Their online sales for 2025 opens in a week I believe. I would rather just decide and order them. Once it's final I think we will be happy with our choices because we have to be. I posted another...

Spring 2025

How are your grapes doing?

Is anyone in New England growing the following: Sabrevois St Croix Zinfandel Arandell Marquette Crimson Pearl Marechal Foch Leon Millot Cab Sav Cab Franc Merlot Tanna Resting Prarie Star Vignoles Pilot Gris Pinot Blanc Albarino Vidal Blanc Sauvignon Blanc Seyval Blanc Cayuga White Chardonnay...

Yes, ideally I would like one per row. We have a few that could be 4 or 5 ft spacing and some that need 8. We are getting the disease resistant varieties as much as possible. There aren't many places we could taste test a Marquette or a Leon Millot or a Traminette. Other than getting our own...

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But which ones?! The number of choices is maddening. We are thinking about just rolling the dice and leave it up to fate.

"Prune" our list 😂

That is a good point. Our rows are a bit on the shorter side, 60ft. So o e tow of each would be more efficient and give us some room for error in wine making. Thank you. 🙏 It is still very difficult to choose.

Yes, that is good advice. We are going on a grand vineyard tour this summer and already went to a few. And I have been testing quite a bit of wine 😂. It's just very difficult to choose. We had similar difficulty in selecting our chicken breeds. Best of luck with your vineyard! Please post photos.

Thank you!!!

Would you suggest not grafting Cab Franc then? We were really excited about this variety. We are on the border of zone 5, 6. What did you lose the vines to?

We are doing a test vineyard to see which varieties grow best before planting a much larger area with the "winners". How many varieties should we start with? We narrowed down our choices but still have 8 white and 10 red varieties we really want to try. The amount of research we put in is...