Narrative
Per Hedrick (see citation): "The variety is injured by cold below zero... It requires, too, a long season for perfect maturity... It requires a well-drained warm soil and one which is abundantly supplied with humus... Herbemont is known and widely grown in Europe as well as in the southern United States. In southwestern France where the demands of the variety seem to be particularly well fulfilled, it is firmly established and is highly regarded as a direct producer... Herbemont is greatly esteemed as a table grape and is said to make a very good light red wine... Vine vigorous to very vigorous. Canes rather long and strong, bright green, with more or less purple, with considerable bluish-white bloom... Leaves large, roundish, sometimes entire, or three to seven-lobed, nearly glabrous above and below... Flowers self-fertile. Fruit ripens very late. Clusters large, long, tapering to cylindrical, prominently shouldered, compact; peduncle long and strong; pedicels somewhat short with few rather large warts; brush pinkish. Berries round, below medium in size, uniform, reddish-black or brown with abundant blue bloom. Skin thin, rather tough, with considerable pigment below. Flesh tender, very juicy; juice colorless or slightly pink; rather sweet, sprightly to slightly acid. Seeds two to four, usually two, small, reddish-brown, slightly glossy; chalaza round, prominent; raphe distinct." Per Galet (see citation): "Another aestivalis-cinerea-vinifera variety is Herbemont, which sometimes used to produce a white wine although its berries are black. It is very similiar in appearance to Black Spanish and can be distinguished by a shorter leaf, which is a lighter green and glabrous with pubescent veins."