Vitis Bel-Chasse - grape - vine

🌿 General Description

• Type: Climbing vine (deciduous)
• Origin: Quebec selection
• Use: Table grape (fresh consumption)

👉 This is a vine focused on pleasure/consumption, not winemaking.

📏 Growth

• Length: 3 to 5 m +
• Vigor: Medium to strong

👉 Perfect for:

• pergola
• fence
• trellis

🍇 Fruits (major highlight)

• Color: Blue to purple
• Size: Medium to large
• Taste:
  • Sweet
  • Pleasant
  • Less acidic than wine grapes

👉 Unlike Frontenac:
➡️ good to eat directly

🍽️ Use

• Fresh consumption
• Snacks
• Local market
• Direct sales

👉 Much more "marketable" for the average customer.

🌸 Flowering / Harvest

• Flowering: early summer
• Harvest:
  👉 late August to September

💡 Advantage:
➡️ earlier than several wine grape varieties

☀️ Exposure

• Full sun required
  👉 Minimum 6-8 h

🌱 Soil

• Well-drained
• Tolerates several soil types
• Avoid waterlogged soils

❄️ Hardiness

• Zone 4 (sometimes protected 3)
  👉 Good for Quebec, but:
  ➡️ a little less hardy than Frontenac/Marquette

💧 Maintenance

• Annual pruning recommended
• Trellising necessary
• Moderate maintenance

👉 Less demanding than a vineyard, but not "zero maintenance"

🛡️ Resistance

• Good general resistance
• Good disease tolerance