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SEMINAR INFORMATION has resulted in an increase in their production in RUTGERS The symposium is a daylong series of New Jersey. The afternoon will include a panel NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION lectures by professionals in viticulture discussion on the production and marketing of (grape growing), enology (winemaking), and sparkling wines which will include a tasting of marketing. Lectures are designed to present these wines. Vineyard weed control is always a new and relevant information to hot topic and the newest methodologies will be professionals and amateurs involved with discussed. NJ Dept. of Ag. will give an update Grape any aspect of grape growing or the wine on the newest insect problem, the Spotted industry. Lantern Fly. There will be multiple tastings Rutgers Cooperative Extension is an equal conducted during the symposium. Award- Expectations opportunity program provider and employer. winning wines will be available for sampling in Contact your local Extension Office for the NJ Wine showcase, immediately following A Viticultural and Enological Symposium information regarding special needs or the symposium. This is the thirty fifth year of accommodations. Contact the State the symposium. Come, learn, and spend time Extension Director’s office if you have with your fellow NJ wine professionals 2020 Theme: concerns related to discrimination, 848-932- DIRECTIONS 5000, ext. 584. FORSGATE COUNTRY CLUB High Tech Canopy REGISTRATION INFORMATION 375 Forsgate Drive The pre-registration fee for the symposium Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 Management for New is $95 for non industry members. For winery 732-521-0070 personnel, the fee is $95 for the first person Jersey, An In Depth to register from each winery and $75 each FORSGATE COUNTRY CLUB is conveniently additional person from that winery. located in central New Jersey - close to Princeton Look. Plus a Renewed Registration fee at the door is $120. The cost and New Brunswick and only one hour from New includes seminars, roundtable discussions, York and Philadelphia. Take NJ Turnpike to Exit 8A; Perspective on Sparkling demonstration tastings, continental after toll, exit the left ramp (Jamesburg/Rt 32 E) onto breakfast, breaks, buffet lunch (featuring NJ Forsgate Drive, and follow 1.2 miles through traffic light to Club on left. Wine wines), and the Award Winning Wine Showcase. PROGRAM COORDINATORS Saturday, February 29, 2020 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Forsgate Country Club Gary C. Pavlis, Ph.D. The program includes experience and 375 Forsgate Drive Monroe Twp., NJ County Agent ll/ Associate Professor perspective from wine consultants, university Agriculture and Natural Resource Department faculty as well as commercial producers. The Sponsored by: Rutgers University emphasis is on quality grape and wine RUTGERS COOPERATIVE production. The morning session will start with Daniel Ward EXTENSION an in depth discussion of disease control and Associate Extension Specialist in Pomology management. This will be followed by a special Director, New Jersey Center for Wine Research and In cooperation with presentation by one of the most well respected Education viticulturists in the US, Tony Wolf. This lecture is Director, Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension The NJ Wine Industry Advisory not to be missed. Cutting edge canopy Center Council & the Garden State management research will be presented by Winegrowers Association Rutgers professionals. As is our tradition at Hemant Gohil, Ph.D. Grape Expectations, the winners of the 2019 County Agent III/ Assistant Professor Agriculture and Natural Resources Department Governor’s Cup wines will be discussed and Rutgers University tasted. The producers of these wines will explain how those wines were produced. The renewed interest in sparkling wines worldwide THE PROGRAM 2:50 Marquette, Regent, and Arandell Grape Atlantic County, NJ. His research/extension program management tactics, such as the use of cover crops, Production: High-cordon or Low-cordon focuses on vineyard establishment, as well as the development of weed emergence models, or the 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast training? increasing the production efficiency of grapes. use of remote sensing and drone technology for Dr. Daniel Ward, RCE Todd Wuerker, owner of Hawk Haven Winery, early weed detection. 9:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Conner Quilty, winemaker at Unionville Vineyards Joe Zoltowski is the Director of the Division of Plant Symposium Overview: 3:10 Controlling Troublesome Weeds Through as well as Brian Tomasello and Mike Beneduce Industry, NJ Department of Agriculture. He is Dr. Gary C. Pavlis - RCE Integrated Weed Management for New are sparkling wine producers in New Jersey and will responsible for detection, eradication and control of Jersey Vineyards speak on the production and marketing of those exotic agricultural and environmental insect and 9:15 Grape Disease Management for 2020. Dr. Thierry Besancon, RCE wines. diseases. He has taken the lead in investigating the Dr. Peter Oudemans, RCE Mike Beneduce is the grower and winemaker at monitoring and control of the Spotted Lantern Fly in 3:40 Spotted Lantern fly Update Beneduce Vineyards in Hunterdon county NJ. Their New Jersey. 9:45 What’s New From The Industry? Joe Zoltowski, NJDA 22 acre vineyard is predominantly planted to . aromatic vinifera varietals suited to their cool climate. REGISTRATION INFORMATION 10:00 Break 4:00 Canopy Management Panel Discussion Mike graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell Dan Ward, RCE, Hemant Gohil, RCE,Tony University with dual degrees in Plant Sciences and Name:______________________________ 10:15 Experiences with Early-season Wolf, VA Tech, Mike Beneduce, Jim Quarella Viticulture/Enology. He was named Edible Jersey’s Leaf Thinning in Virginia 2017 Beverage Artisan of the Year. His Pinot Noir Spouse/partner:_______________________ Dr. Tony Wolf, Virginia Tech 4:30 NJ Wine Showcase received 93 points form international wine critic James Suckling. Winery/Business:_____________________ 11:00 PGR-induced Cluster Loosening THE SPEAKERS Dr. Megan Muehlbauer is the Hunterdon County Dr. Hemant Gohil Dr. Dr. Peter Oudemans Rutgers/NJAES Peter Extension agent. The focus of her extension work is . Address:____________________________ leads the small fruit pathology program. This on tree and small fruit production in northern New 11:15 Governor’s Cup Reviews program is focused on the development of Jersey. She has been involved in many SARE and Mike Beneduce, Louis Caracciolo, methodologies to reduce the impact of plant disease non-SARE funded field projects involving a range of ___________________________________ Brian Tomasello and improve fruit quality. Significant strides are crops including apples, peaches, pears, hops, wine being made through the use of remote sensing for grapes and hazelnuts. Phone:_____________FAX:____________ 12:00 Buffet Lunch Featuring NJ Wines detecting, mapping and understanding the impact of Dr. Dan Ward Rutgers/NJAES. As Rutgers plant disease. Extension Specialist in Pomology, and Director of the E-MAIL:____________________________ 1:00 The Mystery Wine Challenge Dr. Tony Wolf research interests are broad and New Jersey Center for Wine Research and reflect the multi-disciplinary challenges faced by the Education Dr. Ward has statewide extension Cost: Non-Industry members - $95 1:30 Sparkling Wine Production- An Expanding Virginia wine grape industry. Previous research responsibility for fruit crops including wine grapes. Winery Personnel - $95 for first person and Market - A Panel Discussion focused on methods of grapevine canopy His viticulture research encompasses canopy $75 for additional industry members. Dr. Gary C. Pavlis, RCE, Mike Beneduce, management that affected grape and wine quality, management, training systems, and variety $120 at the door. Beneduce Vineyards, Todd Wuerker, Hawk cold hardiness investigations, and inter-disciplinary evaluation. Haven Winery, Conner Quilty, Unionville collaboration with entomologists and plant Jim Quarella is the owner of Bellview Winery, a Make checks payable to: Rutgers, The State Vineyards, Brian Tomasello, Tomasello pathologists to reduce pest problems. Current winery in the Landisville section of Buena in Atlantic University of New Jersey Winery. research includes wine grape variety evaluations, County, New Jersey. A family produce farm since Please complete the form and return to: collaborative studies of grape root borer effects on 1914, the vineyard was first planted in 2000, and GRAPE EXPECTATIONS 2:15 Five Methods of Crop Thinning in Pinot grapevines, regulation of vine vegetative growth to opened to the public in 2001. Bellview has 40 acres Rutgers Cooperative Extension Noir and Their Effects on Fruit enhance grape and wine quality, and collaborative of grapes under cultivation, and produces 8,000 6260 Old Harding Highway Composition and Wine Quality efforts to develop a new generation of GIS vineyard cases of wine per year. Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Mike Beneduce, Beneduce Vineyards, site evaluation maps for Virginia. Dr. Thierry Besancon Rutgers/NJAES is an Dr. Megan Muehlbauer, RCE Dr. Hemant Gohil is the Gloucester Co. agent with Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in For more information on registration: RCE with grape responsibilities. Hemant has Weed Science at the P.E. Marucci Center for Dr. Gary C. Pavlis 2:35 Progress Update on the Imported Italian conducted research with grapes in Washington State Blueberry and Cranberry Research. While his (609) 625-0056 (Voice) Varieties