ASEV Selects 2021 Best Enology and Viticulture Papers February 25, 2021
DAVIS, Calif., February 24, 2021…The American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) has selected the 2021 Best Paper Award winners. The authors are presented with a plaque and monetary award and will be presenting their papers during the 2021 Virtual ASEV National Conference, June 21-24. Both papers are highlighted on www.ajevonline.org and are available free of charge.
The 2021 Best Viticulture Paper, “Soil Temperature Prior to Veraison Alters Grapevine Carbon Partitioning, Xylem Sap Hormones, and Fruit Set” by Stewart K. Field of Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology in New Zealand, Jason P. Smith and Bruno P. Holzapfel of Charles Sturt University in Australia, and Erin N. Morrison and R.J. Neil Emery of Trent University in Canada, looked into gaining a better understanding of environmental effects on grapevines and the physiological regulation of acclimation. The authors a
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News from California throughout the 2020 harvest season was overwhelmingly focused on devastation: record heat waves, uncontrollable wildfires, burned vineyards, smoke tainted wines, and shuttered tasting rooms.
The worst fire season on record will cause most people to remember 2020 as the Golden State’s worst harvest on record.
But in reality, the percentage of grapes impacted by smoke taint across the states was lower than many vintners expected, with entire swaths of California wine country unaffected, according to early lab tests conducted by wineries. Early data released by the USDA reveals the state’s grape harvest was down by 13.9 percent in 2020, but most of that loss was due to naturally occurring lower yields, not smoke damage.