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THE DELAYED ARRIVAL OF 2023’S VERAISON SIGNALS A SLIGHTLY LATER HARVEST
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2023. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: July 22, 2023: onset of veraison in old vine Grenache (planted in 1942) in Lodi's Mokelumne River appellation. What happens during veraison During one particularly long, bumpy drive up on Mendocino...
SEEKING FARMERS FOR SHORT-TERM FLOODING: BIRDRETURNS PROGRAM
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2023. BY BILLY ABBOTT, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. The BirdReturns-Delta Farmlands Program is an opportunity in late summer-early fall this year for farmers and landowners in the Yolo and Delta Basins of the Central Valley, including the Sacramento-San...
HOW LODI DEFIES CLIMATE-RELATED ASSUMPTIONS
MONDAY, JULY 31, 2023. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: 2022 harvest in Lodi, a wine region in which warm climatic conditions are utilized to optimal advantage. Boy, it's been a hot July. Everywhere. This, ironically, follows an unusually cool month of June in...
WINE APPRECIATION COURSES AT SAN JOAQUIN DELTA COLLEGE
MONDAY, JULY 24, 2023. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. San Joaquin Delta College is now offering wine appreciation courses for the Fall 2023 quarter, with some beginning as early as August 21, 2023. Course information provided by Delta College is below. How to...
VINEPAIR WINE 101 PODCAST: AMERICA – LODI AVA
MONDAY, JULY 17, 2023. BY VINEPAIR. VinePair's Wine 101 is an educational podcast for the everyday wine lover. In this series, they shine a light on some of the great wines being made beyond the more well-known AVAs. In Northern California, just east of San Francisco...
USDA RELEASES FIVE-YEAR STRATEGY TO COMBAT SPOTTED LANTERNFLY
MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023. BY USDA (APHIS). The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Spotted Lanternfly Strategic Planning Working Group has released the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) Five-Year Strategy for fiscal years...
WEST COAST SMOKE EXPOSURE TASK FORCE’S SMOKE SUMMIT
MONDAY, JULY 3, 2023. BY CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF WINEGRAPE GROWERS. The West Coast Smoke Exposure Task Force (WCSETF) hosted its 3rd Annual Smoke Summit virtually on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Nearly 500 attendees registered and tuned in to learn about everything...
WHY LODI GROWERS TAX THEMSELVES
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2023. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Recently, the Lodi Winegrape Commission was featured in a public television short-form documentary video project to tell the unique story of our regional self-funded grower outreach and...
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