by Lodi Growers | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
JANUARY 16, 2023. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. San Joaquin Delta College, a junior/community college headquartered in Stockton, CA, recently announced two new wine courses offered this Spring: Cul Art 32 Evaluation of Wine and Cul Art 85 Wine Regions of...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023. CONTENT SHARED FROM ZAP WEBSITE. Find Your Flavor with the legends and emerging celebrities of Zinfandel on January 26-28, 2023. ZinEX is an annual wine and food extravaganza in San Francisco attracting wine lovers from around the world and...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 26, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2022. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD. The Lodi Winegrape Commission is thrilled to release the newly accredited Fourth Edition LODI RULES Sustainable Winegrowing Certification Standards! The goal of the Fourth Edition is to improve the LODI RULES...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: Wine lovers in Lodi’s Clements Hills appellation. Consumers rule. Or put it this way: They make the rules, which can be loosely defined because, well, they’re the consumers. Details...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2022. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Just as careful monitoring of vineyard conditions in the field is foundational to successful viticulture (Figure 1), attentive monitoring of operating economics is fundamental to the success of the vineyard...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: Overhead photo of Lodi wine festival in Lodi Lake Park, located along the Mokelumne River, the namesake of the appellation originally farmed by the region’s pioneers, starting in the late 1840s. One...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Please join the Lodi Winegrape Commission on Thursday, December 1st at Burgundy Hall to celebrate 30 Years of Rootstock Research at Liberty Vineyard! The meeting is co-hosted by the Lodi Winegrape Commission...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 21, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Although Petite Sirah is firmly associated with California, its homeland is southeast France. There the variety is known as Durif after Dr. Francois Durif, the French nurseryman who first discovered and...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022. BY WINE INSTITUTE. SAN FRANCISCO — California vineyards and wineries are encouraged to apply for the 2023 California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards, with applications now being accepted at greenmedal.org. Vineyards...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2022. BY DONNELL BROWN, NGRA PRESIDENT. Abby Hammermeister of UC Davis Wins Three-Year Award with Research Focusing on Understanding Grapevine Stress Response to Heat and Drought In Spring 2022, the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA)...
by Lodi Growers | Nov 4, 2022 | Videos, Presentations, & Handouts
Canopy management plays a crucial role in not only winegrape quality but also in pest and disease management. Dr. Justin Tanner (UC), our future Northern San Joaquin Viticulture Farm Advisor, shared the results of a recent canopy architecture project. Dr....
by Lodi Growers | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: Anaya Vineyards Clements Hills-Lodi Nebbiolo in the light of harvest morning. Among the many wine grapes commercially grown in Lodi—over 125 of them, at last count—there is one that has remained obscurity...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2022. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Topsoil tillage is a concept familiar to grape growers. It is so familiar, in fact, that most growers intuitively know the best implement and the best timing to incorporate weeds or cover crop residues into the...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 10, 2022 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: On a 2022 harvest morning, gnarly, own-rooted 120-year-old Schmiedt family-grown Zinfandel going into Icon’s “Old Gods” bottling. One of the big stories in Lodi wine country just over the...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 3, 2022 | Blog, Vineyards
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2022. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. HISTORY Typically, research by a trade association like the Lodi Winegrape Commission is done by allocating funds towards projects deemed as priority needs. Requests for proposals...
