Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Accomplishments

Short-term Outcomes: To enhance future facilitation of reporting I have taken the liberty of including the following information of subcommittees formed in 2017. Viticultural practices subcommittee chair: Joe Fiola, Data Collection subcommittee chair: Dan Ward, Outputs and Milestones chair: Tim Martinson, and Germplasm and Discovery chair: Matt Clark.

Outputs: State reports are included as appendix

Activities:

A structured wine tasting was presented by Joe Fiola and including wines made from grapes grown and vinified by Joe Fiola as well as well as wines made from grapes grown and vinified by Scott Kohl’s group at the Highland Community College in Kansas. A total of 18 varietal wines were evaluated and included: Frontenac gris, Bianca, Fernão Pires, Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, LaCrescent, Albariño, Colombard, Brianna, Piquepoul, Traminette, Rougeon, Garanoir, Chambourcin, Petit Verdot, Frontenac, Fredonia and Teroldego. Attendees learned about the origin of the grape varieties as well as the performance and their viticultural characteristics.

Milestones: Six states including VT, ND, SD, KS, NY, and MD have established new plantings of grape cultivars, selections or clones. This is in congruence with Milestone objective 1 (2018). Further, other participating states will be establishing new plantings of grape cultivars, selections or clones in 2019.

Publications:

Bradshaw, T.L., Berkett, L.P., Kingsley-Richards, S.L., and Foster, J.A. 2018. Horticultural Performance and Juice Quality of Cold-Climate Grapes in Vermont, U.S.A. European Journal of Horticultural Science 83:1, 42-48. Invited paper.

Bradshaw, T.L., Hazelrigg, A., and Berkett, L.P.. 2018. Characteristics of the cold-climate winegrape industry in Vermont, U.S.A. Acta Hortic. 1205, 469-476. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1205.57

Hazelrigg, A., Bradshaw, T.L., Berkett, L.P., Maia, G., and Kingsley-Richards, S.L. 2018. Disease Susceptibility of Cold-Climate Grapes in Vermont, U.S.A. Acta Hortic. 1205, 477-482. DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1205.58

Loseke, B. A. 2018. Replacing Herbicides with Groundcovers to Enhance Vineyard Sustainability. PhD dissertation, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/agronhortdiss/138/

Rice, S., N Lutt, J.A. Koziel, M. Dharmadhikari and A. Fennell. 2018. Determination of Selected Aromas in Marquette and Frontenac Wine Using Headspace-SPME Coupled with GC- MS and Simultaneous Olfactometry. Separations 5:20; doi:10.3390/separations50100

Schoelz, J., M. Adhab, W. Qui, S. Peterson, and D. Volenberg. 2018. First report of grapevine red blotch virus in hybrid grapes in Missouri. Plant Disease. Accepted for publication. Posted online 10 September 2018.

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