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Viticultural Research in New York, Texas, and Mississippi
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Chris Scholomiti
Special to The Citizen
I think I jinxed us in my last column about this uneventful winter in the Finger Lakes. In February we had some real snow, maybe 2 feet, then mid-month the old polar vortex showed up. We recorded minus 1 degree Fahrenheit early in the morning of Feb. 13 in our Fosterville vineyard, but fortunately that was a single episode, with temperatures moderating quickly, but still cold. I guess the old saying, âif you donât like the weather in central New York, wait five minutes and itâll changeâ holds true!
I attended a webinar recently, the Eastern Viticulture and Enology Forum, about production practices affecting fruit quality in cold, hardy âMinnesotaâ cultivars. Most wine grapes in the Finger Lakes are either vitis vinifera (the old world European native grapevines) such as Riesling, chardonnay, cabernet franc and French-American hybrids (interspecific crosses between American grape species and the vitis
Wine Conferences East of the Rockies Go Virtual in 2021
With the Covid-19 crisis still limiting or preventing in-person gatherings, many wine conferences and educational programs have changed to virtual schedules for enology, viticultural, and wine marketing/business meetings. While online sessions are obviously not the same as seeing and talking with speakers and other attendees in person, there are some advantages to “attending” virtual programs. Conference organizers have the option to include presenters based on their knowledge on topic under discussion, not how much it would cost to bring them to a specific location. And there certainly are a wide variety of virtual programs that anyone in the wine industry can attend, often at no cost.