Description
SWENSON WHITE (E.S. 6-1-43)
(Hybrid: includes Vitis Vinifera 38,3%, Vitis Rupestris 3,1%, Vitis Riparia 12,5%, Vitis Labrusca 38,3%, Vitis Aestivalis 3,1%)
GREEN SEEDED TABLE GRAPE
- Green to golden berries with pronounced floral aromas, and which do not develop the foxy taste of its parent Edelweiss
- Large round berries with thick skin and firmer flesh than its parent Edelweiss
- Loose mid-to-large clusters
- Hardy to zone 4b, up to approximately -32°C (-25,6°F)
- Maturité: semi-tardif, fin septembre début octobre en zone 4b. Nécessite environ 1200 DJC 10°C (Degrés-Jours de Croissance base 10°C) –ou 2160 DJC base 50°F- to mature fruit
- Vigorous vine
- Resistant to most vine diseases
- Ideal for fresh eating. Also great to make wine. Gives a very fragrant and very floral white wine.
- Self-pollinating
Swenson White
Lon Rombough (célèbre viticulteur Américain, auteur du livre “The Grape Grower”) déclare qu’il a envoyé des boutures d’une sélection de plants de raisin à l’un de ses ami dans le Colorado pour les tester.
The latter having accepted a job in a nursery at Boulder planted some of these cuttings.
One day, a journalist specialized in horticulture visiting the nursery, tasted one of the grapes from one of these vines, and fell in love with it.
Seeing on the label attached to the plant, the name ‘Swenson White’ she named the variety this way in her article published in the magazine “Horticulture”.
N’ayant pas la moindre idée qu’en fait, l’étiquette était un raccourci pour “Un cépage blanc d’Elmer Swenson” (“Swenson/White”).
C’est ainsi, qu’une fois imprimé dans un magazine National, il devint le “nom officiel” du nouveau cépage.