Life Style / Wine Grapes / Swenson (Red): Red-blue skinned American hybrid variety derived from a Minn 78 x Seibel 11803 cross. Mainly suitable as tablegrape. Claimed by some as capable of making a good ros? wine. Berry has strong strawberry-like flavor. Susceptible to Downy Mildew. Ripens early and claimed to be hardy to -30 deg. F. (ca -35 C.). (No other details available as yet).
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Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Louise Swenson: Has synonym name ES 4-8-33. Developed by Elmer Swenson in 1980 and released around 1994 this harsh-cold (to -40 deg. F.) tolerant variety is a cross between ES 2-3-17 and Kay Gray. Recent reports indi MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Swenson White: Has synonym name ES 6-1-43. Very vigorous variety developed in 1980 and released around 1994 by Elmer Swenson at the Univ. of Minnesota from an Edelweiss x E.S. 442 seedling that ripens around early O MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Swenson (Red): Red-blue skinned American hybrid variety derived from a Minn 78 x Seibel 11803 cross. Mainly suitable as tablegrape. Claimed by some as capable of making a good ros?© wine. Berry has strong strawberr MORE