Fairhaven Vine Nursery Expands Development of TVM’s Brilliant- Over the last 24 months we have expanded the developmental work with Munson’s Brilliant. As part of this project we have stepped up the pace of propagation and integrated the Brilliant into our breeding program. In the lab we have been working on understanding the vintification of […]
“As remarkable as the wines at Fairhaven are, the cultivar hybridization and improvement research is even more so.” Sincerely, Paul Gambrel
The originator must have a great fund of enthusiasm, and an ambition to add something to the general fund of human development for the benefit of the world at large, and, that he may reap some personal compensation, or enjoyment, he must have an intense love of close communion with nature, causing him to admire […]
Fairhaven has expanded its famous collection to include all five of the existing types of Lenoir. These types are the original Lenoir (Black Spanish or more correctly the Blue French), the Favorite (a hybrid of Herbemont and Lenoir), the Herbemont (the Brown French), the Jaquez, and the Rulander (Lousinana Bourquiniana). This extraordinary group of vines […]
“After educating myself for the work and making such extensive preparation for the origination of varieties, which were essential to vineyard culture, to enable it to fill its entire sphere, few persons regarded my effort otherwise than that of a “crank”, and often I have heard myself mentioned as the “vine crank” This, to me, […]