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Early season vines produce large clusters of delicious white grapes
Edelweiss is an early ripening white variety with a pleasant sweet flavor that's excellent for fresh eating and processing. Early harvested fruit makes delicious sweet white wine which has a mild, fruity labrusca flavor. Winter hardy and very vigorous. No. 1, 1-yr. vines
Developed as a table grape, Edelweiss has medium-sized berries on large loose clusters. Wine is usually finished sweet and has pineapple overtones; fruit should be harvested at 14°- 16° brix to avoid strong Labrusca flavors.
Edelweiss is an early ripening white variety with a pleasant sweet flavor that's excellent for fresh eating and processing. Early harvested fruit makes delicious sweet white wine which has a mild, fruity labrusca flavor. Winter hardy and very vigorous. No. 1, 1-yr. vines
Developed as a table grape, Edelweiss has medium-sized berries on large loose clusters. Wine is usually finished sweet and has pineapple overtones; fruit should be harvested at 14°- 16° brix to avoid strong Labrusca flavors.
- Product Details
- Botanical Name: Vitis vinifera 'Edelweiss'
- Height: 15 - 20 ft, vining habit with tendrils.
- Spacing: 5 ft apart
- Depth: same as in nursery
- Spread: 3 - 4 ft
- Light Required: full sun
- Color: Pale green
- Foliage: 6 inch deeply lobed and rounded, quite ornamental foliage.
- Fruit: Heavy clusters of medium size, slipskin, greenish-white to pale gold fruits that are very sweet with mild Niagara-type flavor.
- Zone: 4 - 7 (-20° F.)
- Form: Vine.
- Flower Form: Small, 5 petaled, held in narrow panicles. Not ornamental.
- Soil Requirements: well-drained, sandy loam
- Growth Rate: Fast once established.
- Pruning: Prune in Winter when dormant.
- Comments: Hardy in subzero weather. Edelweiss is an early ripening white variety with a pleasant sweet flavor that's excellent for fresh eating and processing. Early harvested fruit makes delicious sweet white wine which has a mild, fruity labrusca flavor.
- Grape Color White
- Primary Use Juice, Table, Wine, Jelly Wine
- Color White
- Variety Origin Developed by Elmer Swenson and released by the University of Minnesota Parents Minnesota 78 x Ontario
- Pseudonym (Tested As) ES 40
- Year Released N/A Harvest Season Early Season
- USDA Hardiness Zone 4
- Sulfur Sensitivity Highly susceptible
- Vine Vigor Vigorous
- Growth Habit Trailing Suggested Distance Between Vines 6 ft - 8 ft Vine
- Training System Top Wire Cordon
- Bud Break Mid-Season with Concord
- Black Rot Slightly susceptible Downy Mildew Slightly susceptible Powdery Mildew Moderately susceptible Botrytis Moderately susceptible
- Top Wire Cordon (TWC)Top Wire Cordon is arguably the most efficient training system for grapes, especially for procumbent or downward growing cultivators, especially those not prone to late season fruit rots due to shading of the fruiting zone. Summer labor is much less than that required with Vertical Shoot Positioned (VSP) training as shoot positioning and leaf pulling are generally not required.
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