Turn, turn, turn...

Wow - the grapes are moving along quickly. The Regents in particular are turning color fast.

Regent Grapes

But the real beauties are the Madeleine Angevines:

The row shown above had no cluster thinning. Compare to the row I thinned to one cluster per shoot:

I intend to harvest and weigh separately to determine yield, and measure Brix to see if thinning produced more advanced ripening. I don't know if I'll have enough to vint separately to determine quality.

Even the Pinot noir are starting to show some color:

But they are clearly weeks behind the Regent. My grafted Pinot noir 77 clone is similar:

But the grafted clone Pinot noir Precoce is clearly way ahead of the others:

and the Pinot Blanc, while beautiful clusters, don't look very ripe..

I tested a few Mad Ang and Regent berries today and they were in the 12 to 15 Brix range. Need a couple more weeks!