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ZAP’s ZINEX 2023
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...
LODI RULES ENTERS FOURTH EDITION
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...
A LOOK BACK AT 2022’s INCREASING CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR NATURAL, ORGANIC, OR SUSTAINABLY GROWN WINES
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 don't matter when they...
MONITORING VINEYARD BUSINESS ECONOMICS
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...
WHY LODI IS A VERDANT PARADISE FOR GRAPES, NOT A PARCHED CENTRAL VALLEY DESERT
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 of the...
“30 YEARS OF ROOTSTOCK RESEARCH: LIBERTY VINEYARD” EVENT
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...
WINEGRAPE VARIETY FOCUS: PETITE SIRAH (DURIF)
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...
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 9TH ANNUAL CA GREEN MEDAL AWARDS
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...
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