Vineyards

Baxter's Vineyards grows many different types of grapes and apples on 15 acres of land in Nauvoo, IL. Our vineyards are located in Nauvoo, IL with one being on Winchester St and the others being on Parley Street on or close to the winery grounds.

American Varieties	Hybrid Varieties	Seedless Varieties	Apples
Catawba	Cayuga White	Jupiter	Yellow Delicious
Concord	Chardonel	Marquis	Red Delicious
Edelweiss	Traminette	Mars	Jonathon
Niagara	Vignoles		Jonagold
Norton (Cynthiana)	Chambourcin		Empire
	Chancellor		Granny Smith
	Corot Noir		Honey Crisp
	Frontenac
	Noiret
	NY 76

Catawba - A spicy flavored, red slip-skin grape. To reach full maturity, this grape requires favorable sites. Makes a fruity pink wine.

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.

Edelweiss - Produces early ripening amber fruit similar to that of its parent, Ontario, but the wine is much more winter hardy.

Niagara - A floral white grape used for juice, wine and fresh consumption. It ranks below Concord in cold hardiness and ripens somewhat earlier.

Norton (Cynthiana) - 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.

Cayuga White - One of the most productive and disease resistant varieties grown. This versatile grape can be made into a semisweet 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.

Chancellor - Moderately cold hardy and productive but requires cluster thinning. Wine quality is among the better of the French-American varieties.

Chardonel - This cross of Seyval and Chardonnay produces an excellent wine when mature fruit are used. Good locations with long growing season are required to ripen the fruit.

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.

Frontenac - Extremely winter hardy red grape variety that produces a full bodied wine of high quality.

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.

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.

Vignoles - Produces an excellent white dessert wine, especially when picked late in the season. Vines are hardy, and budbreak is late, reducing the risk of spring freeze injury. Clusters are small and compact.

Jupiter - This early maturing blue variety has large berries on medium sized clusters. The fruit has a distinct muscat flavor.

Marquis - Vigorous, white seedless grape from the Geneva Breeding Program. Named in 1996, this high flavor grape produces 3-5 gram spherical berries on large shouldered clusters. Excellent table grape, also produces pleasant and delicate white wine.

Mars - A vigorous, blue seedless grape. Clusters are medium sized and well filled. Hardiness has been good at Geneva, NY and the vines are resistant to several major diseases. Vines may bear fruit precociously, and production should be controlled on young vines to prevent delays in establishment.