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2010 Harvest Information
Fresh grape juice is available for purchase by the gallon each fall at Baxter's Vineyards. Please call us at (217) 453-2528 to place your order. Orders are taken and filled on a first come, first serve basis. When ordering multiple varieties, please keep in mind that our grape varieties ripen from late August through October. We cannot guarantee that your entire order will be available at the same time. Prices will be added to this page in June of 2010.
American Varieties:
Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Niagara
Premium Wine Varieties:
Cayuga White, Chambourcin, Corot Noir, Frontenac, Noiret, Norton, Traminette, Vidal
Did you know?? 14 pounds white grapes will make 1 gallon of juice depending on press. 12 pounds red grapes will make 1 gallon of juice depending on press.
About the Varieties Concord - Produces medium-sized clusters bearing large blue-black berries. It is a slip-skin grape and the pronounced fruity flavor makes it a desirable dessert grape. Catawba - A spicy flavored, red slip-skin grape. To reach full maturity, this grape requires favorable sites. Makes a fruity pink wine. Cayuga White - One of the most productive and disease-resistant varieties grown in New York. This versatile grape can be made into a semi-sweet wine emphasizing the fruity aromas or, using oak aging, into a dry, less fruity wine. Its excellent cultural characteristics and high wine quality promise an important future for this variety. Chambourcin - A late ripening grape that may produce a highly rate red wine when the fruit fully matures. It requires a long growing season and a site less subject to low winter temperatures. The large, moderately loose bunches set medium-sized blue berries. The vine is very productive and cluster thinning is required. Corot Noir - Formerly known as NY 70.0809.10, this vine produces a vinous, vinifera type wine with bell pepper aroma. The vine is vigorous and very productive at Geneva with good powdery mildew resistance. Delaware - An early-ripening red variety with small berries, small clusters, and a mild flavor. Used primarily for dessert, juice and white wine. Frontenac - Extremely winter hardy red grape variety that produces a full bodied wine of high quality. Niagara - A floral white grape used for juice, wine and fresh consumption. It ranks below Concord in cold hardiness and ripens somewhat earlier. Noiret - Formerly known at NY 73.0136.17, this vine is vigorous and moderately resistant to powdery mildew. The red wine has full body with black pepper character and moderate tannin content. Norton - Produces small to medium clusters which bear firm, round, black berries. This grape ripens very late. It is a natural hybrid of Lambursca and Aestivalis. Traminette - A Gewurztraminer hybrid from the Geneva Breeding Program. Named in 1996, this hybrid produces wines of excellent quality, often spicy and resembling Gewurztraminer, with good sugar/acid/PH balance. Vine is much more winter hardy than its Gewurztraminer parent, productive and moderately resistant to powdery mildew. Vidal - produces a fruity with with grapefruit and pineapple notes. Due to its high acidity and fruitiness, it is suited for sweeter wines. The grape's tough outer skin makes it well adapted for production of ice wines.
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Baxter's Vineyards & Winery 2010 E. Parley Street PO Box 342 Nauvoo, IL 62354 Phone: (217) 453-2528 Toll free: (800) 854-1396 Fax: (217) 453-6600
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