idun Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I think I must have imagined a hot summer, as I bought Spanish grapes today and at this time of year after a hot summer they are usually succulent and sweet.It's vendange time, should be lots of delicious grapes, are french grapes lovely this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Ours did well but have pips and are not particularly good for eating. Tried our best for last two weeks though. Good for wine/booze - a bottle usually appears on the doorstep thanks to our neighbours but alas won't this year - the neighbour is away atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 One of our vines fruited very well, again eating grapes, with pips, tasty and mcuh sweeter this year, but skins are tough. Been giving away what I cannot eat, and still feel overwhelmed. I think the rain came at the right time this year, Idun, then we had the sun and heat with the odd cooler period ... but never cold. Odd year, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I was visiting friends in Champagne Ardennes last month, the vendanges had started a fortnight earlier than usual and there was great excitement about both the quality and the quantity. I think they were talking about +25% in quantity? I often go there around this time of year and I've never seen this level of excitement before. The vignerons were going round with photos of their grapes on their phones, proudly showing them to anyone with the time to look. My friends gave me grape juice straight from the press and it was absolutely beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Good to hear about the successful grape harvest.Re having your own vine - we had 2 kinds of green grapes, one was seedless. I looked up their names and found that only a small range of vines can be sold to individuals. Most are protected and only for commercial buyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Patf, we are, of course, in a wine growing region, and the area where we are was once a market garden (we know that from our French friends 50m away as her grandfather was the market gardener!). The vines were in when we arrived, and one is certainly quite old ... but if I could get a seedless grape I would be over the moon .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisette Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 https://www.lesjardinsdejosephine.com/contents/fr/d17_SULTAN-BLANC-SP.htmlhttp://www.richter.fr/fr/plants-de-vigne-table/greffes-soudes-raisin-table-blanc.html?id=94&phpMyAdmin=13b47b7e63334919037a04b76546ef98There you go :-) I'll be doing cuttings of mine shortly if you want to have a go at growing ungrafted plants... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Well we moved a vine a few years ago, and one of our vigneron friends reckoned it might not fruit again .. did though and for the first year they were seedless. Sadly, they have now reverted to type, though this year, strangely, along with another vine, they did not produce huge nos, whereas the other one did. The year before that one didn't produce so much and if got soonest they were seedless ... I will never understand!Noisette, I am not the gardener, enough other to do, leave that to OH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisette Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Don't mention it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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