Sept 23 to Sept 25, 2005
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in this issue
-- Commodity Prices
-- Premium Juice and Jelly Grapes!
-- Red & Green Seedless Table Grapes!
-- Grapes for your favorite Red Wine
-- 8 Varieties of White Wine Grapes!

Greetings!

This is our Weekly Picking Update (not our bi-monthly newsletter.) A few days before the weekend we check the vineyard and make notes of ripening conditions. It is not a guarantee of what is available, but what the typical picking conditions are.

To see pictures of people at the vineyard last year click here. 

Click here for a page that can be easily printed and taken with you to the vineyard!

Grapes are Earlier this year! Don't Wait!

This is week 4 of 6 that we are open - our season is short so mark your calendars & visit us. Many people print this newsletter & bring it to the vineyard with them to act as a picking guide. Remember we are only open Friday, Saturday & Sunday and not during the week.

Our week 4 grape winner is putitout@surfbest
They will have 40 lbs of grapes that they can pick for free.

Our week 3 grape winner is tghawleyathome@aol
Our week 2 grape winner is hdjid@aol
Our week 1 grape winner is thebarnierbunch@hotmail

Commodity Prices
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COMMODITY PRICES U-Pick Grapes 1-19 lbs. .80/lb. ½ bu (20 lbs.) or more .60/lb. 5 bu (200 lbs.) or more .54/lb. 10 bu. (400 lbs.) or more .46/lb. (An average person can pick from 1 to 3 bu/hr - bring lots of friends) 1 1/2 to 2 bushel (60-80 lb) makes 5 gal wine

Our Vineyard Page

Premium Juice and Jelly Grapes!
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Price (Black) - Rows 6 & 7 - Our ripest blue grape - still some left.
Seneca (White)- Rows 8 & 9 - Our best white seeded table grape - still some left.
Buffalo (Black)- Rows 3, 4 & 47 - Ready this weekend
Delaware (Red) - Rows 68 to 70 - Ready this weekend - good crop
NY Muscat - Rows 10 & 50 - Mostly gone
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Ready this weekend - good crop
*** Concord (Black)- Rows 1, 2, 48 & 49 - Ready this weekend - excellent crop
Steuben (Black)- Row 5 - Needs 1 more week - good crop
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Red & Green Seedless Table Grapes!
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*** Canadice - Rows 16 to - 19 - Ripe now - good crop
***Reliance - Rows 13 & 14 - Very Ripe now - good crop
Einset - Rows 27, 28 % 36 - Mostly gone.
Suffolk Red - Rows 22 to 26 - Still some left
Himrod - Rows 20 & 21 - Mostly gone.
Lakemont - Rows 11 & 12 - Mostly gone.

Grapes for your favorite Red Wine
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*** Marechal Foch - Rows 42 to 46 - Ripe Now - still some left
*** DeChaunac - Rows 51 to 54, 64 to 67 - Ripe this week
Baco Noir - No Baco this year - They did not survive the winter.

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8 Varieties of White Wine Grapes!
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Horizon - Rows 35 & 41- Mostly gone
St. Pepin - Rows 61 to 63 - Ripe Now- good crop
Seyval Blanc - Rows 31 & 32 - Small amount left
Delaware - Rows 68 to 70 - Ripe now - good crop
GW-5 - Row 15 - Ripe Now - small amount left
Cayuga White - Rows 33 & 34 - Ripe Now - small amount left
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Ripe Now - good crop

Vignoles - Rows 38 & 39 - Week 2 or 3 - Gone
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