This variety is known for its large, heavy clusters quite high density.
Berries differ in almost the same size, there is no neighborhood of large and small grapes.
Thanks to this bunch "Count of Monte Cristo" very beautiful and serve as a real festive table decoration. The beauty of this variety is comparable to Chocolate, Taifi or Sofia.
Description of the grape variety Monte Cristo
Grade "Count Monte Cristo" - fragrant table variety, with maroon-brown or pinkish-burgundy color with a slight matte coating. The same table type includes Rusbol, Nizina, Russian Early.
Full ripened color - dark red, burgundy or pinkish brown.
Until full maturity brush color lighter, pinkish red.
Matt plaque covers ripened fruit, especially at the base, and gives them a silvery lilac hue.
Ripening early middle: harvest harvested during September.
The variety is characterized large mass of brush and large size. The density of the cluster is above average. Its mass reaches 1,200 gaverage bunch weight from 800-900 g.
Berries round and oval, slightly elongated. Medium size can weigh 25-30 grams.
Skin does not differ in the increased density - it just such that it was possible to chew and eat without efforts.
Cuttings this variety is very well rooted, the first harvest can be obtained in the second year after planting in a permanent place.
Flowers bisexual, as well as in Amethyst and Moldova, are pollinated without problems.
A photo
You can visually see the “Count of Monte Cristo” in the photo below:
Creature
Grade author - Vasily Ulyanovich Kapelyushny, national breeder living in the Rostov region. Grade "Count Monte Cristo" was created at the turn 1990s and 2000s, as a result of breeding varieties Talisman (Kesha) and Rizamat.
The same gardener’s hand owns the Parisian and Marcelo varieties.
Specifications
The ripening period of the variety "Count Monte Cristo" is from 130 to 135 daysthat allows us to relate it to the early middle varieties. Witches Fingers, Buffalo and Valery Voevoda differ in the same period of ripening.
Frost-resistant and high-yielding variety. Tolerates frosts to minus 25 degrees. Super Extra, Beauty of the North and Pink Flamingo are also frost resistant.
Does not require very fast harvest: mature clusters can stay for some time on the bushes without loss of taste and presentation.
Sometimes it is subject to cracking, as well as Anthony the Great and Amethyst Novocherkassky, partly due to the large size of the berries.
Grapes "Monte Cristo" and the juice from it very rarely causes allergic reactions. Like many other types of grapes, it is recommended for various diets.
The juice of well-ripened grapes does not require the addition of sugar. If you prepare the juice from immature grapes, its properties will be very close to lemon.
It can be used in cooking for making salads, sauces, meat and fish dishes instead of lemon juice.
The grapes of this variety are also used to prepare fragrant compotes with minimal sugar. Galahad, Vostorg and Asya can also be referred to “compote” varieties.
Fresh grapes has a delicate smell and very tasty. Recently collected grapes are the most useful: they contain highest amount of vitamins.
Freshly squeezed juices, obtained by the "cold" method, preferably canned or hot processed juices. Freshly prepared juice retains the delicate unique aroma of fresh berries and does not lose its vitamin value. The highly fortified varieties include Black Panther, Princess Olga and Bogatyanovsky.
AT winemaking this variety while relatively rarely used, as it was created recently and has not yet received wide distribution.
The quality of grapes and wines is strongly influenced by weather and climatic conditions, but it can be said with certainty that in successful years, the wine from the Graf Monte Cristo grape is very high quality and tasty.
Diseases and peculiarities of care
This grape variety showed good stability to the most common diseases: mildew and oidium.
Variety is not subject to peaAll berries reach large sizes and ripen well. Aleshenkin Dar, Marcelo and Ayut Pavlovsky are not a good pot.
In some climatic and weather conditions there is cracking fruits on the bush.
Many grapes with large berries have a predisposition to this, and the probability of cracking increases in rainy and wet weather.
The phenomenon of cracking is dangerous because an infection or fungus quickly gets into the “open wounds”. Even if one berry began to rot, with a dense arrangement in the bunch from her neighboring.
And, of course, the crop damaged by cracking will not be stored or will require careful time-consuming processing before storage.
If the site is not enough grape bushes, we can recommend manually collecting the cracked fruit.
If a crack has appeared recently and is not infected, such ones are quite edible. They can be used for making compote, juice. Of course, this method is not suitable if we are talking about a large number of bushes.
To prevent cracking using the following methods:
- remove the uppermost roots as the most strongly absorbing moisture;
- before the start of the rains, the soil under the bushes is covered with a waterproof film;
- after the rain, carefully loosen the soil under the bushes for better aeration;
- There are also a number of recommendations on the diet of grapes: for example, limit the use of nitrogen fertilizers.
Agat Donskoy and Favor are also susceptible to cracking berries.
Tasty and fragrant, the "Graf Monte Cristo" grape is not yet a widespread and popular variety, but it has a great future.
His thick brushes well transported and can relatively long stored.
Due to the even and large berries of the same size, large beautiful brushes, the "Monte Cristo Count" variety is very photo and film-based. He is loved by the creators of videos and artistic photographs.
Since the variety Graf Monte Cristo is relatively new, many of its properties are still being studied, and some conclusions can be corrected over time.
