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very delicate, high flavored, and sprightly wine, of greenish 

 yellow color. 



Tramenir. Synonym, rother Klaevner. This is not a very 

 productive variety, although a fair bearer, but it brings pretty 

 sure crops, and the wine is of such superior quality, which it 

 will impart to other lighter wines, that it ought to be in every 

 vineyard, if only a few acres. Vine a moderate grower, wood 

 short jointed, thin, grayish brown, changing to ashy gray, 

 hairy, buds whitish gray. Leaves small, round, thin, often 

 broader than long, dark green above, light green below, 

 hairy and downy, stem of leaf reddish, points of young 

 shoots grayish white, with very small leaves. Bunch small, 

 compact, sometimes shouldered; stem short and brown; 

 berry small, oblong, or oval, pale red with gray bloom, skin 

 thick, moderately juicy and very sweet and .spicy, ripens 

 about end of September here. Like the Chauche Gris, to 

 which it is closely related, but superior in quality, it ought 

 not to hang until over ripe. The noblest wine I have seen 

 in this State yet was made from this grape. 



Sultana. This is perhaps not suited to all localities, and 

 should not be planted when there is danger from late spring 

 frosts, as the vine starts early. Yet it makes, in northern 

 California, a very fine wine, and as it is a very abundant 

 bearer, with long pruning, and the berries are seedless, it is a 

 very profitable grape, as it can also be. used for choice raisins. 

 Vine is a strong grower, brown, long jointed wood. Leaf, 

 thin, bright green above, lighter green below, smooth and 

 shining, deeply lobed and sharply serrated; young wood dark 

 green, points greyish brown, tendrils at every joint, thin and 

 slender. Bunch very large and loose, shouldered; berry 

 small, round, golden yellow, covered with light bloom, sweet 

 and juicy, firm and crackling, without seeds. Ripens here 

 end' of September, and makes a very delicate wine of straw 

 color, great body, and acquiring with age a natural sherry flavor. 



