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PSU Grape Tests
Three grape varieties grown at
the Erie County Field Research
Laboratory of The Pennsylvania
State University produced
superior wines in both the 1970
and 1971 growing seasons, it was
announced recently during the
Fifth Pennsylvania Wine Con
ference at University Park.
The superior grapes were
Vidal, producing a white wine,
and DeChaunac and Chelois,
producers of red wines, ac
cording to Dr. Robert B.
Beelman, assistant professor of
food science at Penn State. The
Field Laboratory is located in
North East, heart of the Penn
sylvania grape country.
Dr Beelman said the three
superior wines had also been
rated highly in studies in Ohio.
The 1971 evaluations rated five
other wine grape varieties also
superior—Seyval, Vignoles, GW
4, all for white wines, and Foch
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Since the results are
preliminary, Dr. Beelman ad
vised grape owners and wine
producers to use caution in
making final judgements of the
sensory quality of these wines or
of the potential of the grape
varieties for wines. He said the
studies need to be extended for
several years to evaluate
varieties producing consistently
superior wines.
Hybrid grape plantings at the
Erie County Field Research
Laboratory, North East, were
described by Dr. Carl W.
Haeseler, associate professor of
pomology.
In yields per acre, the leading
varieties were Chelois, averaging
7.7 tons per acre; DeChaunac,
averaging 7 tons per acre, Vidal
256 with average yields of 6.5 tons
per acre; and Chancellor with 6.2
tons per acre.
In quality of sugar content, the
best hybrids were somewhat
reversed, compared to yields.
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were the most promising in this
respect.
Dr. Haeseler reported that
several wine grape hybrids had
been planted in 1971 on lands of
cooperating farmers in Juniata,
Adams, Franklin, York, and
Bucks counties. Plantings were
also made at the Southeastern
Field Research Laboratory at
Landisville, Lancaster County,
and at the Fruit Research
Laboratory at Biglerville, Adams
County. All hybrid varieties are
showing satisfactory growth in
these Southeastern counties, he
indicated.
He said plantings of European
wine varieties, over and above
the hybrids, had also been made
at the various locations in the
Southeastern counties. Such
plantings had been tripled by
1971. Growth has been better than
expected in two or three years, he
said.
Donald H. Peterson, professor
of plant pathology, described
black rot as the mostly widely
distributed and most destructive
disease of grapes east of the
Rocky Mountains. Destruction of
the berries is the main loss, he
pointed out. Infections of the
berries result in their darkening
and shriveling. Infection takes
place only during muggy periods
of 2 to 3 days. Such wet weather
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