Sept 1 to Sept 3, 2006
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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 regular 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 1 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 1 grape winner is msokolnicki@comcast.net
They will have 40 lbs of grapes that they can pick for free.

Commodity Prices
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COMMODITY PRICES U-Pick Grapes 1-19 lbs. .80/lb. ½ bu (20 lbs.) or more .65/lb. 5 bu (200 lbs.) or more .60/lb. 10 bu. (400 lbs.) or more .50/lb. 2000 lb or more    .45/lb Crusher/stemmer rent   .05/lb (An average person can pick from 1 to 3 bu/hr - bring lots of friends) 2 bushel (80lb) makes 5+ gal wine Grape Pails (strainer bag included) 2 gallon grape pail @ $24 (16lb of crushed/destemed grapes) 5 gallon grape pail @ $45 (40lb of crushed/destemed grapes) Call (810) 796-3253 in the evenings to order grape pails or email us.

Our Vineyard Page

Premium Juice and Jelly Grapes!
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Price (Black) - Rows 6 & 7 - Ready this weekend
NY Muscat - Rows 10 & 50 - Ready this weekend
Delaware (Red) - Rows 68 to 70 - Week 2 or 3 - good crop
Buffalo (Black)- Rows 3, 4 & 47 - Ready next week
Seneca (White)- Rows 8 & 9 - Ready next week
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Ready week 2 or 3
Concord (Black)- Rows 1, 2, 48 & 49 - Ready week 3 or 4 - excellent crop
Steuben (Black)- Row 5 - Ready week 3 or 4
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Red & Green Seedless Table Grapes!
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Lots of Seedless Grapes ready this week!

Canadice - Rows 16 to - 19 - Ok now - pick the red ones
Einset - Rows 27, 28 & 36 - Ripe now
Suffolk Red - Rows 22 to 26 -Ripe now
Himrod - Rows 20 & 21 - Ripe now - Birds like them too
Venus - Very ripe now - Row 30
Reliance - Rows 13 & 14 - Better next week
Lakemont - Rows 11 & 12 - Week 2 - good crop
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Grapes for your favorite Red Wine
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Marechal Foch - Rows 42 to 46 - Ripe Now
Baco Noir - Rows 55-56 Ripe now but less acidity next week (plus in rows 51-54 + 64-67)
DeChaunac - Rows 51 to 54, 64 to 67 - Next week
Frontenac - Rows 73 to 75 Ripe next week
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8 Varieties of White Wine Grapes!
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Horizon - Rows 35 & 41- Ripe now - good crop
St. Pepin - Rows 61 to 63 - Better next week - good crop
Seyval Blanc - Rows 31 & 32 - Week 2
Vignoles - Rows 38 & 39 - Week 2 or 3
Delaware - Rows 68 to 70 - Week 2 or 3
GW-5 - Row 15 - Week 2 or 3
Cayuga White - Rows 33 & 34 - Week 2 or 3
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Week 2 or 3
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