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Viticulture 2013, the huge industry conference and trade show that occurs every three years, will take place on February 6-8 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. Sponsored by the New York Wine & Grape Foundation and Cornell Cooperative Extension, "Vit 13" will build on the success of Vit 10 in terms of world-class speakers addressing today's hot topics.
Next year's conference will focus on Cold Climate Wines--how to grow the grapes, make them into good wines, and market them--led by CCE's Tim Martinson, who got a $2.5 million grant to study this area with other colleagues throughout the country. But there will also be lots of other seminars on viticulture, enology, marketing, legal and financial issues. More information will be coming, but for now save the dates.
Cold snap last week, after weeks of unseasonably warm weather, does not appear to have caused significant damage to the vines, although a lot of people were holding their breath. Even though it seems we dodged a bullet, there are still six more weeks of worrying about a possible late frost.
Paumanok wines from the North Fork of Long Island will be on the wine list for opening day at Yankee Stadium at NYY Steak Clearly, someone in the Yankee organization has impeccable taste.
Dallas Morning News wine competition included a couple Gold medals from New York: Dr. Frank 2009 Rkatsiteli, and Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards 2010 Chardonnay.
U.S. wine sales last year totaled 347 million cases, a 5.3% increase from 2010, and had a retail value estimated at $32.5 billion, according to Jon Fredrikson of Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates in California. The United States remains the world's largest wine market, but when you measure adult per capita consumption around the world, we're #59--after Greenland, Iceland, and Niue (where's that?). We remain an uncivilized country when it comes to wine consumption. |
