Brianna Grape is Midwest’s New Tropical Fruit
When Acquaviva Winery in Maple Park, Illinois petitioned the Tax and Trade Bureau during 2007 to use the name Brianna for their wine labels, they found that only one other winery had petitioned for...
Category: Viticulture
Grape Freeze Damage Extensive in Ohio, New York, Michigan
Record March warmth and severe April frosts have combined to destroy most of the Concord and Niagara grape crop in states bordering the Great Lakes from Michigan to Upstate New York. Some labrusca growers...
John Marshall: Spring Pruning and Frost Protection
As I write, it is easily the warmest March in my lifetime. In fact, it is seems like the warmest winter in history. I was watching the weather the other night and the weatherman...
How to Indentify Injury to Grape Buds
When temperatures go down below freezing, grape buds can tolerate temperatures down to about 28 F. If temperatures drop below 28 F, new buds that have emerged are subject to injury. However, the duration...
April Frost and Freeze Damage Reports
Midwest Wine Press reported on conditions in Midwest vineyards throughout April 2012. The information below was compiled from conversations with grape growers across the Midwest between April 11th and April 26th, 2012. Updates...
Top Tips For Controlling Crown Gall
Crown gall symptoms are characterized by distinct tumor-like overgrowths on roots, trunks, and vines. New galls that form during early summer are light-colored, but they turn dry and corky by late summer. Expansion of...
Viticulture Advice For Warmest March Ever from MSU and UW Experts
According to Diane Brown at the Berrien County Michigan State University Extension, with the weather this warm this early, grape growers are in uncharted waters in terms of vineyard management practices. Brown, who...
John Marshall: Frost Damage Protection for the Small Grower
Here in Minnesota and across much of the Upper Midwest we have had two dramatic frost damage events in the past year and a half. One on Mother’s Day Weekend in Spring 2010 and...
Petite Amie Wine Romances Midwest Winemakers
Cuthills Vineyards owner Ed Swanson has had a girlfriend for six years, and his wife Holly knows all about it. But Swanson’s paramour is not a human; it’s a white wine grape called Petite Amie, which...