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Edelweiss |
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Edelweiss -
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La Crescent -
Prairie Star -
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Edelweiss is a white seeded table, wine, and juice grape. Hardy to -30 F. It exhibits excellent disease resistance and adaptability. Edelweiss has a pleasing for some, obnoxious for others- foxy (labrusca) flavor, which becomes more pronounced the longer it hangs on the vine. While mostly a table and juice grape, some very popular sweet wines have also been made. Ripens early in the season, late August to early September. Named by Elmer Swenson.
- Primary Use: Table, Juice, White Wine
- Color: Yellow, Green
- Hardiness: 4
- Harvest Time: Early in the Season
- Training System: High Cordon
- Spacing: see our Spacing Chart page here
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| Rory's Recommendation - Edelweiss is a very versatile and prolific grape. It's disease resistant, requiring little to no spray program. The vine is hardy and reliably sets a good crop each year. In addition to all of these great characteristics it was bred to be a table grape, so it has large berries on large clusters with low sugar and acid levels. The downside of Edelweiss is- the window of palatability from the time it is sweet to the time the foxy character becomes obnoxious is only a few days attaining about 15-18 brix. This makes Edelweiss good for table eating and juice, but poor for wine making except as a blender.
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