Summer Grapes!!! (and derivatives, thereof)

      I was hoping to find a Vitis aestivalis female vine to hybridize when I got to Stone Tower, and I found TWO!  I also found a beautiful...

     Well, life flows on!  After a 15 month stint at Boxwood Estate Winery in Middleburg, Virginia, I have migrated north a bit to Stone Tow...

Back at it in Virginia! Stranger than fiction is life, but here I am in Amherst County, VA, back in the same house I left in 2014, this ti...

Well, I finally got the fruit fermenting that I collected as described in my last post!  Here are the cleaned seeds at the same scale: ...

Two Beauties from Northeast Ohio            Well, a grape hunter doesn't go anywhere the wild vine grows and misses much.  Since ...

WELCOME!       I'm back at it!  This will be the new home of all things North American summer grape ( Vitis æstivalis) from the init...