Even if the grapes ripen a few weeks later than their normal late september they should still ripen in time.
Being a young vine the Dornfelder vine is only carrying four small flower clusters this year. They too are beginning flowering.
Dornfelder grapes are relatively late to mature, mid october most years, so there is a distinct possibility they won't ripen in time. I'm not too concerned by this as strong growth is still more important than fruit for these vines this year.
MA in the UK causes some confusion. There is the real variety of that name and then another mislabeled one which is sometimes called 'Madeleine Angevine 7672' which is a MA crossed with something else.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite complicated, I have avoided it up till now for this reason. One is a French table grape that doesn't thrive here or make a decent wine, the other is a wine grape that does very well here. The latter is desirable, but some vineyards in the past imported MA from France thinking it was the wine grape and received and grew a table variety poor for wine and poor in our country instead.
http://www.winegrowers.info/varieties/Vine_varieties/Madeleine%20Angevine.htm
Yours looks like the wine grape anyway.