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facture of dry sherries and occasionally with the Tintas for the 

 manufacture of red wines. Vine vigorous and productive. Slender, 

 short jointed wood. Leaves medium size, smooth, veins light 

 yellow. Bunches large, branching, loose but well filled. Berries 

 small to medium, somewhat oval, firm, fleshy, of a yellow-golden 

 colour. Ripening late. Requires a rich soil and short pruning. 



PINEAU WHITE CHARDONNAY (syn. White Morillon). Vine 

 more vigorous than most of the Pinots, with slender but vigorous 

 wood. Leaves medium size, yellowish -green, glabrous above, 

 slightly downy below ; teeth uneven. Bunches small, short, some- 

 what compact, conico-cylindrical. Berries small, spherical, light 

 green when ripe, and golden on the sunny side. Flesh firm, and of 

 more flavour than the true Pinot Blanc. Ripening early, a week or 

 two later than the Black Pinot. Adapts itself to all soils, but bears 

 better crops in well-drained deep loam. This grape enters to some 

 extent into the manufacture of the best champagne wine, and also 

 those famous white wines of Burgundy : Montrachet, Chablis, 

 and Pouilly. Another white pineau, under the name of Auxerrois, 

 produces in the dry districts of New South Wales and in Victoria 

 a fine sweet white wine. 



RIESLING. A choice white grape of which Hock is made on 

 the Rhine and in Moselle. Season, fairly early (2nd period). 

 Merits, one of the best varieties for cultivation. Vine growth, 

 stem slender ; shoots semi-erect, slender, rather long- jointed, hard 

 bark of a glossy gray colour, turning to silver-white in the autumn, 

 numerous laterals. Buds downy, grayish colour. Leaves, medium, 

 thick, three to five-lobed, wrinkled, rather deeply indented sinus, 

 teeth almost even ; upper surface smooth, dark green : under sur- 

 face downy, light green colour, veins thick and covered with short 

 stiff hair; petiolar sinus almost closed; leaves fall early in the 

 autumn. Fruit : bunches small, close set, cylindro-conical, with 

 short and thick pedicel. Berries small, round or somewhat oblate, 

 of a greenish colour, covered with bloom and with small black 

 specks. Very juicy and rich, with a peculiar aromatic flavour. 



Cultural Notes. Long pruning, comes into leaf late; gives 

 best results on granite or schistose formations ; fairly resistant to 

 o'idium, and not attacked by anthracnose. Yields fair crops. 



SHEPHERD'S RIESLING (syn. Orleans Riesling, Gros Riesling) . 

 A variety of the above, bears heavier crops, has larger berries, resists 

 wet better, but the wine not quite so good as that of the true 

 Riesling. Vine vigorous, leaves of medium size, longer than wide, 

 glabrous above, slightly downy below. Three to five lobes, the 

 upper sinuses deep, the lower scarcely marked. Bunches medium 

 size, somewhat compact, conico-cylindrical, slightly shouldered. 

 Berries larger than those of Riesling. Slightly ovoid, juicy, whitish- 

 yellow. Ripens second period a little after Riesling. This variety 

 is much grown throughout the Palatinate and the Rhingau, and 

 round Rudesheim. Does not require long pruning. 



