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Note added 2002 Mar 5
I've tasted four Lucie Kuhlmann recently. A great range of flavours. The worst by far a commercial wine: no names, no pack drill. The best, an amateur job. I rate the ones made from my grapes somewhere in the middle but then, I'm prejudiced. The one I disliked most was grassy or herbaceous. I have not seen the other vines but I am prepared to bet that the good wines came from vines with good sun exposure and the one I disliked from crowded vines with shaded fruit. So I withdraw my conclusion above that it is all in the winemaking: at least half the work is done in the vineyard.
Comments from the Canada Vintage website. Scroll down this site for variety descriptions from Anthony Carone.
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Comments from Andrew Bennett (Nova Scotia, Canada):
The same ancestry as both Marechal Foch and Leon Millot. Earlier than either. Less vigorous ... or is that just the crown gall I seem to have bought along with the vines? Still pretty vigorous. I left fruit on mine in their second season in the hope of slowing them down. Also fruitful but not as excessive a cropper as either Marechal Foch or Leon Millot. This one could survive a little creative neglect in the fruit thinning operation, though we do thin it. Some say the wine is inferior but they may just have been drinking it too soon: I had a competent wine maker deal with some of ours and the improvement after some bottle aging was enormous. It started out flat and dull compared to a precocious Foch made at the same time but opened out and became more complex in its third year. It's all drunk now so I can't tell you if it would have continued to improve. Don't let anybody get away with telling you that the Foch types are quick to peak and then have nowhere to go - it just isn't so. Even a light, commercial style improves for four years or more and a properly made heavy duty job for much longer. It's all in the winemaking.
VARIETIES BEING TESTED:
CHARTS OF RESULTS
DM 8521-1 ES 4-7-25 ES 5-17 Frontenac Kate Lin
Landal Noir (244) Landot Noir (4511) Lucie Kuhlman Sabrevois St. Croix
Delisle ES 6-16-30 ES 8-2-43 Frontenac Gris Geisenheim 318
La Crescent Louise Swenson Prairie Star Swenson White Vandal Cliche
INFORMATION ABOUT THE VARIETIES
DM 8521-1 ES 4-7-25 ES 5-17 Frontenac Kate Lin
Landal Noir (244) Landot Noir (4511) Lucie Kuhlman Sabrevois St. Croix
Delisle ES 6-16-30 ES 8-2-43 Frontenac Gris Geisenheim 318
La Crescent Louise Swenson Prairie Star Swenson White Vandal Cliche
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