I have seen photos of botrytized red grapes, so the bug does not seem
to discriminate on the basis of color.

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:57:36 -0500, Mark Lipton >
wrote:

>Leo Bueno wrote:
>
>> It is not all together clear to me whether late harvest wines are
>> necessarily made from grapes attacked by the Botrytis fungus.
>> Intuitively, I suspect one can just pick the berries after they have
>> shriveled or cracked from freezing but have not necessarily been
>> attacked by the fungus. Enlighten me please.
>
>No, late harvest means just that: grapes harvested somewhere on the path
>to becoming raisins (in the case of Recioto, perhaps all the way there).
> It is certainly possible that they become botrytized, but that is a
>separate issue. For instance, late harvest reds have never in my
>experience had any botrytis character.
>
>Mark Lipton

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