Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

A major project goal is to provide evaluation data for grapevine cultivars that will be useful to grape growers nationwide. Short term outcomes are summarized in annual reports presented at this meeting which demonstrate very good progress is being made on cultivar evaluations. There are obvious differences between climatic regions that will become more apparent as the reports come together. Activities included in depth discussions of processes for evaluations that will result in optimum information continue to be discussed. This is truly a national project that requires a long term to completion and the members are working well together to reach these goals. The next phase in this project will include wine evaluations. Discussions currently involve the most efficient procedure for making the wines that can be compared across regions. Significant discussion included funding for the research that is being done. With the loss of the Viticultural Consortium special grant other sources of funding will be considered including other federal, state and private sources.

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