Jim,

Have you or any one else had sucess with Sangiovese here in
North/Central Texas? I like the idea of Sangiovese but have been
afraid of PD, I have about 50 plants of Chamboursin, about 3 yrs, and
its showing signs of PD, I also planted 25 Blanc du Bois (BdB), I
tried to keep them organic but the fungus last year was just to
intense and I got no production last year and very little this year, I
have given up on the organic sprays and think if I keep up with the
chemical fungal spray program, the BdB should do good next year.

Richard
Italy, Texas



In texasgrapes@yahoogroups.com, jparker000@... wrote:
>
> Interesting, it might be everyone migrated to the North Texas Wine
Guild
> group for those of us in North Texas. And the Home-Wine-Maker Group
has some
> traffic too.... I have 4 acres and plan in the works over the next
three years
> or so to put in about 370 vines. Right now looking at all the
logistics and
> doing a bunch of bare rooting from cutting, some grafting to wild
mustang vines
> on the place and general clean up of the land. I am in zone 7B but
my mico
> seems to keep it about 5-10 degrees cooler, so I am going to play
with about 4
> different varieties right now., most likely two reds and two
whites... reds
> I pretty settled on _Tempranillo_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempranillo)
> and _Sangiovese_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangiovese) right now
> looking at these whites _Rkatsiteli_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkatsiteli) and
> _Riesling_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesling) . It finding
what I want
> on 1102P root stock... but not sure 1102P is going to be the root
stock still
> researching that issue as my soil is PH balanced and is loam, not
clay like
> many have to deal with in North Texas.
>
> Well that my plan... will have to see how it comes out.
>
> Jim
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> Jimmy (Jim) Parker
> Decatur, Wise County, Texas
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> (c) 940.255.0912
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