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    The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana
    The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana
    The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana
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    The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana

    By Frederic T. Bioletti

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    This book contains a classic guide to wine making, concentrating on growing wine grapes in California. With chapters on everything from selecting the grapes to maintaining the vines, this volume contains a wealth of practical information that will be of utility to the modern wine maker, especially those located in California or nearby. Contents include: “Winemaking”, “The Best Wine Grapes For California”, “Wine Grapes Recommended For California”, “Pruning And Training Of Young Vines”, and “Pruning The Sultanina”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on winemaking.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473381315
    The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana

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      The Best Wine Grapes for California - Pruning Young Vines - Pruning the Sultana - Frederic T. Bioletti

      THE BEST WINE GRAPES FOR CALIFORNIA.

      BY F. T. BIOLETTI.

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      The question is often asked: What are the best wine grapes for California? It is a very difficult question to answer. If we modify it and ask, What wine grape is it most advisable to plant? the difficulty is lessened but not removed. The answer will depend greatly on the point of view. For the grape-grower it is one thing, for the wine-maker another, for the consumer still another, and for the good of the industry at large a compromise of all three.

      For the grape-grower who sells his grapes for so much a ton whatever the quality, the question resolves itself into, Which is the heaviest bearer?

      For the consumer the question means either What grape will produce good wine at the minimum cost? or What grape will produce the best wine irrespective of cost? according to the kind of consumer he happens to be. As quantity and quality are to a great extent inversely proportionate, these views are widely divergent.

      For the wine-maker the question is a little more complicated, but may be stated essentially as, What grape can I handle with the most profit? This profit will depend on the difference between the price he is forced to pay the grower for grapes and that which he can persuade the consumer to pay him for wine. For one class of consumers he must get cheap grapes, for the other he can afford to pay almost any price, providing they are of the right quality.

      For the good of the industry at large it is desirable that varieties should be planted which will produce as large a crop as is compatible with such quality as will maintain and extend the markets for our wine. These markets are varied in character. For some, cheapness is the essential factor; for others, quality. Cheap wines can be produced with profit only from heavy-bearing varieties grown in rich soil; wines of the highest quality only from fine varieties grown on hillsides or other locations where the crops are necessarily less. It is therefore unwise to

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