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Wine Details
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Description:
Dry amber white with hints of peach, apricot, and tropical fruit. The Frontenac Gris grape is genetically identical to the Frontenac grape introduced by the University of Minnesota. However the Gris ripens to a light grey color which results in this slightly pink wine. The grapes in this wine were grown in the driftless blufflands of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Varietal Definition
Frontenac gris:
'Frontenac gris' is a white wine grape variety which makes table and dessert wines; is very winter hardy with trunks surviving temperatures as low as -38C; is a mid-season variety with an average harvest date of Sept. 30 in Minnesota (approx. 45-degree latitude); yields and vigor are high; has moderate susceptibility to powdery mildew and black rot, low susceptibility to downy mildew (on the leaves and fruit), and moderate susceptibility to foliar phylloxera; has small gray berries on medium clusters that are somewhat loose; berry splitting and botrytis have not been observed even under wet conditions; wine quality is very good, and aromas include peach, apricot, citrus, and pineapple with no herbaceous or labrusca aromas.
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