By: Denise Gardner Date: September 11, 2018 Practical Action Steps for Vintage 2018 1. Most whites benefit from less rain. 2. Choose a good yeast, monitor fermentation, and maintain good nutrient addition strategies. 3. Minimize extraction of compromised fruit. Get wines, produced from compromised fruit, off of their lees. 4. Develop alternative strategies for your red […]
Wine Grape Twilight Meetings Spring 2018
Twilight Meetings Empower NJ Wine Industry Wine Grape Twilight Meetings offer local grape growers evenings filled with valuable information designed with the vineyard in mind. This spring, helpful techniques and strategies were presented to dozens of grape growers and vineyard managers across the state of New Jersey. This year’s meetings took place in South Jersey […]
NJ Wine Industry Survey Results
Annual New Jersey Wine Industry Survey – A Brief Summary of the 2016 Vintage By: Daniel Ward Grape Varieties In our survey of the New Jersey wine industry, of the 2016 vintage, five grape varieties are leading production in the state – Chambourcin, Cabernet franc, Cabernet sauvignon, Merlot, and Chardonnay – each with more than […]
Pruning Workshop 2018
Grapevine Pruning Workshop February 22, 2018 1:00 – 3:00 PM Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC) 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08312 Topics Assessing Cold Injuries in Grapevine Buds Balanced Pruning and Ravaz Index Pruning Grapevines on High Cordon and Low Cordon Training Systems Speakers Hemant Gohil Agricultural Agent RCE Gloucester County Gary Pavlis […]
Wine Grape Workshop
Educational Program for Grape Growers Moderator: Hemant Gohil, Gloucester County Ag Agent The 2018 Ag Convention & Trade Show features a Wine Grape session on Wednesday morning, February 7, 2018. Wine grape experts will present topics related to growing wine grapes in New Jersey. Wine grape presentations are being held from 9:30 AM-12:30 PM. Topics […]
Grape Phylloxera
By: Dean Polk, Statewide Fruit IPM Agent Date: November 14, 2016 Grape Phylloxera: A Recent Call and Field Visit During the first week of November a grower sent in photos of grape phylloxera galls on leaves, and asked that this subject be discussed at the November OCPVA meeting. I examined the plants on November 14 just […]
Pre-Emergence Weed Control in Vineyards
Author: Thierry Besancon Alion® for Pre-Emergence Weed Control in Vineyards There have been numerous questions recently from growers about the use of Alion® (active ingredient: indaziflam) herbicide as they are planning their dormant-season herbicide program. Therefore, it may be useful to review some of the information about the use patterns of Alion® for weed control […]
Hilling-Up to Prevent Winter Injury in Vineyards
By: Hemant Gohil, Gloucester County Agricultural Agent; Daniel Ward, Extension Specialist in Pomology; Peter Nitzsche, Morris County Agricultural Agent; Gary C. Pavlis, Atlantic County Agricultural Agent. Cooperative Extension of Rutgers University. Preventing Grapevine Winter Injury: Hilling-Up Shortly after Harvest Winter injury is the single most limiting factor to grape production in the Northern United States. […]
New AVA Proposed in New Jersey – The Cape May Peninsula
Notice No. 161: Proposed Establishment of the Cape May Peninsula Viticultural Area The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) proposes to establish the 126,635-acre “Cape May Peninsula” viticultural area in Cape May and Cumberland Counties, New Jersey. The proposed viticultural area lies entirely within the Outer Coastal Plain viticultural area. TTB designates viticultural […]
Assessing Winter Cold Injury in NJ Vineyards
2013-14 and 2014-15 Winter Injury Survey By: Hemant Gohil and Daniel Ward Following the very low temperatures during the winters of 2013-14 and 2014-15, many vineyards experienced cold damage to their grape vines. Rutgers New Jersey Center for Wine Research and Education (NJCWRE) conducted a survey of NJ vineyards in spring of 2016 to assess […]