by Lodi Growers | Apr 29, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Silvaspoons Vineyards owner/grower Ron Silva with his Alvarinho, a Portuguese clonal variant of Albariño. Why Albariño is such a natural in Lodi Albariño—a grape variety native to Spain’s Rías...
by Lodi Growers | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. The topic of soil erosion sometimes evokes images of dust storms during the 1930’s “Dust Bowl” in the south-central United States (Figure 1). Fortunately, instances of severe erosion of viticultural soils are...
by Lodi Growers | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Harvesting of Nebbiolo—a rare (for California) grape native to Italy’s Piemonte region—in Clements Hills-Lodi’s Anaya Vineyards. When the first-ever scholarly book on Lodi winegrowing was...
by Lodi Growers | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024. BY WINE INSTITUTE. As California’s Down to Earth Month begins, four of the state’s premier wineries and vineyard companies were awarded California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards, joining 36 past winners from throughout...
by Lodi Growers | Apr 1, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024. BY THE LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Our very own Lodi Wine Blog author and wine educator Randy Caparoso was recently recognized by an internationally-acclaimed group called The Old Vine Conference as one of six individuals/organizations in the...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 25, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2024. BY MISTY OEBEL, MS, FARM STRESS EDUCATOR, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. The concept of resiliency is fascinating. In my role as a Farm Stress Educator, I observe daily and chronic stressors as I work with growers, and I am aware of how...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 18, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. According to the Gomberg Fredrikson Report, nearly 68 million gallons of foreign bulk wine was imported by California wineries in 2022. And no one is talking about it. Over the past couple of...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2024. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Internationally-recognized The Old Vine Conference has nominated Randy Caparoso as one of 16 individuals or organizations considered to be making the greatest contribution towards the movement to recognize,...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. The basics of vineyard management include taking appropriate actions at the right time and with the proper intensity to achieve the desired viticultural result. These basics provide guidance about what to do, but...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 4, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: McCay Cellars raising a toast in one of his old vine Zinfandel blocks. California’s 2023 harvest, you might have heard, was problematic, especially in the Lodi appellation. In Lodi, the challenges were...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024. BY XERCES SOCIETY. Many pollinating insects are declining in California, including bees and butterflies. The population of Western monarch butterflies has declined 95% since the 1980s, due to a variety of reasons, including habitat loss and...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024. BY TAWNY MATA, PhD, CDFA. As many of you are aware, California is facing revenue projections that are likely to result in less state funding for sustainable agriculture incentive programs. Luckily, at the same time, the federal government...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. At the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium’s State of the Industry presentation on January 24, Jeff Bitter with Allied Grape Growers recommended that California needs to remove a minimum of 50,000...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 29, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Meticulous winter pruning of the long, twisting arms of head-trained, own-rooted Zinfandel first planted during the 1920s in Lodi’s Clements Hills appellation. Winter is coming Winter, you can say, is...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 8, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured Image: Drone-captured message sent to Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer, written among grapevines by Lodi growers who collaborated on pathogen-spotting research conducted in collaboration with...
