What is the best book which talk each clone for wine grapes?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Vamsi
What is the best book which talk each clone for wine grapes?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Vamsi
As far as I know, the most comprehensive attempt is John Caldwell’s “A Concise Guide to Wine Grape Clones for Professionals”-- published by John Caldwell Viticultural Services. I don’t know if it has been updated since 1998, and it’s too concise to be the last word for the clones of any one varietal, but he does touch a lot of bases.
Hi Stewart,
Thank you for the information. The book is out of print and can’t find a copy anywhere. Put up an add on CC and hope to get a copy at some day
For Pinot Noir, John Winthrop Haeger’s North American Pinot Noir has a lot of info about who/what/where/when the clones found there way to CA/OR.
If your looking to match varietals/clones to a specific soil type grapevine nurseries have a lot of free info they can pass along assuming your a prospective client.
If there are a few varieties that you want to look up, I can scan those pages and forward them. The entries are pretty short.
The best source for (mostly) French variety & clones is Grapevine Varieties and Clones published by ENTAV-INRA®
This may be almost as hard to find as Caldwell’s book - not sure.
Caldwell got much of his info from here.
There is also a Ton of info online. Grapevine Nursery sites are a good place to start.
Even YouTube has some cool info > Pinot Noir ENTAV-INRA® 828 Riversun Video - YouTube
Love doing research on variety/clone/rootstock combos - fascinating stuff - especially when you finally put the stuff in the ground, & plant a Vineyard.
Have Fun, Good Luck,
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Cheers!
Depending on what you are looking for, the best might be to look up FPMS at UC Davis. Good stuff on a lot of different clones of each variety. There are also some pretty good technical bulletins from UC Davis extension. Good place to start http://ngr.ucdavis.edu/varietylist.cfm . For each variety - if you look up the publications at the bottom of each- there is far more information. A bit nerdy, but good resource.
Trevor Chlanda
J Stephen Wines
Good info from FPS/Natl Grape Registry on what is available in US. The following is a link to ENTAV INRA entries… http://plantgrape.plantnet-project.org/clones . Click the variety to get comparison properties for all the clones. Within some of the clone tables there are further links to detailed discussion…e.g. cabernet sauvignon. For specific varieties I find that monographs/articles are the way to dig deeper. Also for comparison on flavors there is nothing better than to visit the larger nursery mother blocks during fruit ripening. A few years back I tasted my way through the ENTAV mother blocks shared by Herrick and Mercier before I made the final decision on clones.