WineMcGee.com

facebook twitter
Wine Tasting Wineries Retailers BYOBs Wines Talk Learn

Learn About Wine

Wine Tasting Image

Question

what grapes grow best in NE wisconsin and I have concord already growing in my yard do they make a good wine?

Submit Your Answer

Note: You can include links to sources by typing the full URL starting with "http://"

or login

Supplemental Pictures

There are currently no images uploaded for this question.

Answers

Jake Scheuerman (@jakescheuerman) says 5-26-2010 at 8:50am
thanks for the answers. I guess I will stick with mead.
Michael Siegler (@WineMcGee) says 5-25-2010 at 10:34am
It's very difficult to grow winemaking grapes in Wisconsin, especially northern Wisconsin. It's just too cold, and the cold winters can injure vines, while spring frosts damage the grape growth.

Here's a great paper from the University of Wisconsin-Extension: http://learningstore.uwex.edu/assets/pdfs/A1656.pdf
Here's a quote about grape selection "Choosing grape cultivars for WI is a compromise of hardiness, early maturing fruit, and the quality and flavor of the grape. Of the hundreds of grape cultivars available, many will grow in WI, but only a few are consistently productive in WI's rigorous climate."

"The well known Concord grape, for example, will grow and produce fruit in WI, but requires a 155-160 day growing season for the fruit to ripen. Concord will ripen to best quality only in southern WI, and only two or three years out of five."

So, essentially, you should look into beermaking rather than winemaking.
eventtest

Submitted by: Jake Scheuerman (@jakescheuerman)

Related Questions

Send a Message
To:
Subject:
Message:
Question Image Upload
Click the browse button to upload an image. Your image must be a GIF, JPEG, PNG, or BMP file less than 2MB in size. We'll keep a large version of your photo, and also save a thumbnail which will be clipped and scaled to a 70x70 dimension.