Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in Ontario Wine Country
By: Rick VanSickle October 9th, 2020 The Ontario wine industry is in one big hot mess right now, fighting fires on several fronts with few tools to extinguish all the flames engulfing them.
Red blotch disease alters the chemical composition and taste of critical winemaking grapes
By: Luyi Cheng Northwestern University October 16th, 2020 Alison Crowe knows there’s a problem. Crowe is a winemaker in California’s Napa Valley. “If you drove through my vineyards right now, you’d see these cute little fuzzy leaves and tiny little baby grape clusters,” she said in April, when everything in the vineyards looked fine. But around July and August, for some vineyards, red blotches appeared on grapevines’ leaves. The blotches signal infection, caused by a virus that stunts...
Upcoming Webinar series on Red Blotch disease in grapevine
OWRI Upcoming Webinar series on Red Blotch disease in grapevine
Retirement Announcement for Dr. André Lévesque
Retirement Announcement for Dr. André Lévesque
BC Growing Degrees Days Update
Summerland RDC - BC Growing Degrees Days update September 2020
Canada’s Napa Valley Seeks Elusive Audience: Canadian Wine Drinkers
OSOYOOS, British Columbia — The first surprise for Séverine Pinte, a French winemaker working in Canada, was how casual everyone was — more ripped jeans and flip-flops than Chanel. Then there was the unexpected need to warn grape pickers not to smoke marijuana near her beloved vines. And finally there was a furry menace: Canadian black bears with a taste for chardonnay that gobbled up rows of grape clusters, forcing winemakers to employ hunters, electrified fences or pepper bombs. When Ms...
BC Growing Degrees Days Update
Summerland RDC - BC Growing Degrees Days update August 2020
Province to Phase Out Wine Regions Policy
Province to Phase Out Wine Regions Policy News Release by the Government of Nova Scotia