Abstract
Viticultural performance of six certified, virus-tested clones of Chardonnay from Foundation Plant Materials Service (FPMS), University of California, Davis, was determined at two sites in the Napa Valley. Vine growth (as weight of one-year-dormant cane prunings), yield, cluster number, cluster weight, berry weight, and fruit maturity indices (°Brix, titratable acidity, and pH) were measured over a four-year period, 1988 through 1991. Performance of clones was very similar at the two sites. FPMS clones 6 and 15 had the greatest growth, about 3 kg/vine, while FPMS 14 had the least growth, 1.0 kg/vine. Highest yields were seen in FPMS 5, FPMS 4, and FPMS 6 (about 10.5 to 13 kg/vine), followed by FPMS 14 and FPMS 15 (9 to 10 kg/vine), and last in FPMS 16 (about 4.5 kg/vine). FPMS 4 and FPMS 5 had the heaviest clusters (more than 200 g) and FPMS 16 the lightest (less than 100 g). FPMS 4, FPMS 5, and FPMS 14 had the greatest numbers of berries/cluster (about 160) followed by FPMS 6 with 120, FPMS 15 at 110, and FPMS 16 at about 65. FPMS 16 had the greatest average berry weight, and FPMS 14 had the least. The clonal influence on fruit maturity was not great, except that the pH of FPMS 16 fruit was typically 0.1 to 0.2 units higher than other clones.
- Received December 1993.
- Copyright 1994 by the American Society for Enology and Viticulture
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