Brant - The Usual Story.

As mentioned earlier a good number of the Brant clusters showed only partial setting. While after fruit set a cluster may look fully set it soon becomes obvious some individual berries are swelling and others not.
Those immature berries will never swell or ripen.

Here we can see a cluster showing the phenonomon called "hen and chickens" or "shot berries" in britain, "millerandage" in france.

The main drawback with Brant that can also be seen in the photo is uneven ripening. You can see how one cluster is ripening, one a little behind, one with the first berry changing colour and another cluster still green. This results in an extended harvest, sometimes over a month, going over the vine every week to harvest the ripe clusters.

The leaves have wonderful autumn colour though.