Wine-Grower-News #151 December 31, 2010 (Next Newsletter in 2 Weeks!)

Wine-Grower-News #151 December 31, 2010 (Next newsletter in 2 weeks!)

Midwest Grape & Wine Industry Institute: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Wine

Information in this issue includes:

New Information on Herbicide Labels 2011 ICCVE Winter Pruning Workshop Dates Announced 1-15, Bubble Point Wine Filtration Test - Workshop ICCVE Advanced Vineyard Management course begins March 17, 2011 1-(28 & 29), Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers & Marketers Conference 3-8-11 - Fruit Brandy Distillation Workshop – Mt Grove, MO 2011 Ohio Grape & Wine Conference Missouri FB Written Policy Supports Missouri Grape & Wine Industry Comments from Readers Notable Quotables Show n Tell Videos of Interest Articles of Interest Neeto-Keeno WWW Stuff Calendar of Events

New Information on Herbicide Labels By Bob Hartzler, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University Extension

Herbicide labels now include a standardized system to inform users of the product‟s mechanism of action (MOA). A box labeled „Herbicide Group‟ is present near the top of the label. The number in the box represents MOA of the active ingredient, based on a system developed by the Weed Science Society of America. Premixes containing more than one mode of action will have multiple numbers listed. Following is an example of the new logo.

The intent of this information is to simplify development of herbicide programs that reduce the likelihood of selecting herbicide resistant weeds. In production systems relying largely on herbicides

1 for weed management, using herbicides with different MOAs is the primary means of managing resistance.

Generally, the greater number of MOAs used, the less selection pressure placed on weeds. However, designing an integrated program is not as simple as randomly adding MOAs. The different MOAs used in the program must have good activity on the important weeds in the field to successfully reduce selection pressure. Following are a few examples where the inclusion of an herbicide in a system relying on glyphosate in Roundup Ready crops would provide little benefit in terms of managing resistance for specific weeds.

• A Group 2 herbicide would provide little benefit for waterhemp since most waterhemp is resistant to these herbicides. • A Group 15 herbicide would provide little benefit for giant ragweed or other large-seeded broadleaves due to its poor activity on these weeds. • Tank-mixing low rates ( less than 0.75 lbs) of atrazine (Group 5) with glyphosate or other herbicides.

The new labeling system eliminates the need for farmers, consultants and suppliers to learn the MOA of all the active ingredients used in Iowa agriculture. However, to use the information properly, users must still know the activity of the individual herbicides on the weeds present in the field to insure that the target weeds are being affected by multiple MOAs.

Use this link to reach the Weed Science Society of America Mechanism of Action document.

This article was originally published on 12-21-10 in the ISU Extension Integrated Crop Management News.

2011 ICCVE Winter Pruning Workshop Dates Announced

The following five winter pruning workshops sponsored by the Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology (ICCVE) have been set:

January 10 - Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Rocheport, MO

January 12 - OakGlenn Winery, Hermann, MO

January 14 - Riverwood Winery, Rushville, MO

January 17 - Hindsville Lynn Gay Farm, Hindsville, AR

January 18 - Chaumette Vineyards and Winery, Ste. Genevieve, MO

Registration is available online at: http://iccve.missouri.edu/events.

1-15, Bubble Point Wine Filtration Test - Workshop

Where: Breezy Hills Winery, 31735 Tamarack Road, Minden, IA 51553 (712) 485-2083 http://www.breezyhills.com/ When: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, January 15, 2011 (Registration starts at 12:30 p.m. Who: Dr. Murli Dharmadhikari, - Director of the ISU Midwest Grape & Wine Industry Institute: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/wine Jennifer Hansen, Enology Lab Technician - ISU Midwest Grape & Wine Industry Institute Garry Penner, Top to Bottom Consulting, LLC Rolla, MO Sponsored by: Western Iowa Wine Trail: http://westerniowawinetrail.com/ Cost: $20 each, pay at the door. Pre-registration by e-mail or phone requested, contact: Darrell Morse at (712) 485-2083 or [email protected] (Max of 24 attendees.)

ICCVE Advanced Vineyard Management course begins March 17, 2011

The Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology (ICCVE) has set up their Advanced Vineyard Management class. It will meet for seven sessions during the growing season and is designed for those who have several years growing experience and/or have previously completed the Grape Production short course. Details coming soon at http://iccve.missouri.edu

3 1-(28 & 29), Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers & Marketers Conference

When: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday January 28th 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday January 29th Where: Des Moines Airport Holiday Inn

Agenda: http://www.iafruitvegetablegrowers.org/pdf/2011_IFVGA_Conference_Agenda.pdf

Registration: http://www.iafruitvegetablegrowers.org/pdf/2011_IFVGA_Conference_Registration.pdf

Contact person: Dal Grooms at 515-669-7177 or [email protected]

3-8-11 - Fruit Brandy Distillation Workshop – Mt Grove, MO

What: Hands-on distillation of fermented fruit must into brandy using a batch column still with reflux. A short lecture and orientation will be followed by the group distilling fermented grape must into grappa. A one hour lecture in the morning will be followed by a hands-on demonstration of a batch distillation of grappa using a 250 Liter still with a 3 plate column. Theory and practical aspects of distillation will be covered during the lecture and throughout the distillation process (limited group size to allow for adequate chances for interaction).

When: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Where: Fruit Processing Lab, Missouri State University, William H. Darr School of Agriculture, Mountain Grove, MO Registration fee: $100 includes lunch. Registration Form. Due to the hands-on nature of this workshop, attendance is limited to 12 participants. Who: Dr. Karl Wilker: Associate Professor of Enology and MSU Winery/Distillery Manager, Mountain Grove C. J. Odneal Jr.: Cellar Technician, Mountain Grove Marilyn Odneal: Horticulture and Enology Outreach Mountain Grove Full Details: http://mtngrv.missouristate.edu/mtngrvcellars/

Contact: Mayer, Pam, Workshop Facilitator at [email protected] or (417) 547 - 7533.

You must be at least 21 years old to attend this workshop.

2011 Ohio Grape & Wine Conference

When: Monday & Tuesday, February 21 & 22, 2011 Where: Nationwide & Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Dr. Columbus, OH 43210 Sponsored by: OSU Viticulture & Enology Program, Ohio Grape Industries Committee Ohio Wine Producers Association th Pre-registration discount date: February 7 , 2011 Registration Form & Agenda: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/grapeweb/images/OGEN_29_December_2011_25__OGWC_registration_Information.pdf

Missouri FB Written Policy Supports Missouri Grape & Wine Industry

The Missouri Farm Bureau recently adopted a policy that supports the continued development of a strong grape and wine industry in the state. Delegates of the Farm Bureau, representing the nearly 112,000 Farm Bureau members across the state, voted to include the following language in their 2011 Policy Book:

- We support the continued development of a strong grape and wine industry in the state of Missouri and recognize the need for continued promotion. - We support allowing wineries to sell wine on premises and deliver and ship wine directly to retail stores and restaurants. - We oppose any legislation limiting wineries ability to market their product to buyers of legal age. - We support increased state and federal funding for grape and enology research.

The Policy Book helps guide what the Missouri Farm Bureau will support and, in turn, lobby for in Jefferson City.

--- Source: January 2011 Inside Missouri Wine newsletter

Comments from Readers

Mike,

Was doing some family genealogy and found this small article in the paper dated May of 1894, Franklin Iowa. “The prospects for a heavy grape harvest is good and if nothing happens it more wine will be made this fall than ever, in spite of the mulet law, and should any spy find it worth while to put any of the wine makers in trouble he had better make his will before hand---“

Sounds like they took their wine drinking seriously.

John Lake Chalkridge Vineyard, Ft Madison, IA 12-21-10

5 FYI: After being elected into the Iowa House of Representatives in 1893, William B. Martin from Greenfield, Iowa devised the “mulet” law which voided the prior Iowa prohibition act of 1884 if and when a majority of the voters in towns and cities wanted saloons established within their jurisdiction. The Mulet law was repealed when Iowa enacted complete alcohol prohibition on January 1st of 1916. --- mlw

Notable Quotables

“A positive anything is better than a negative nothing”

--- Sign in a locker room.

“Studies have shown that the release of dissolved CO2 in the mouth is what's behind the pleasurable taste and feel of champagne. Thus, pouring a stream of wine down the side of the glass preserves more of the bubbles, so that they can tickle the palate as you drink.”

--- from: How to pour that drink scientifically, 12-28-10 - Cosmic Log on MSNBC.com http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/28/5726948-how-to-pour-that-drink-scientifically

Show Tell

“Hi Mike,

Thank you so much for sending these newsletters out, they are such a great resource for what's going on locally in the wine ag. industry! I just wanted to pass on some pictures and info for you. My husband, parents and I are in the planning stages of starting a winery and microbrewery in Logan, Iowa and we recently put in about 1/3 of our initial trellis before the weather turned too cold. My grandpa has an excavator that we used to drive the posts into the near-frozen ground, and the whole process was smooth! We did this the last weekend in November, right before the ground completely froze and it went a lot faster than we ever imagined. I'm attaching some pictures as well for you to take a look. We would highly recommend using this type of machinery for any vineyard that is installing posts, if it is available to them. We spent more time and muscle figuring out the layout of the rows than actually installing the posts and wire. Anyway, just thought I would pass it on for thought and let you know we love reading your newsletter, so thanks again.”

Cheers!

Nicole & Justin Eilers, 9 Mile Winery/Cloud 9 Brewery, Logan, IA - 12-15-10

(See pic‟s below.)

(Above) Check out the South Dakota Wine Grower‟s new Homepage here: http://exploresdwinecountry.com/ 7

(Above) From: 2009-2010 State of the Wine Industry, page 21 - SilconValley Bank: http://www.svb.com/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2278

Residents of Central Iowa awoke the morning of Monday 12-27-10 to see a frosty wonderland. I quickly jumped into my pickup to get some good vineyard pictures before the wind came up and blew the frost away. Below are some of the pictures I was able to take: ---mlw

(Above) Entrance sign to Summerset Winery, Indianola, IA. 8

(Above) Edelweiss vines in front of large oak tree at Summerset Winery

(Above left) Swenson Red grapes at Victor Rose Vineyard, Indianola, IA. (Above right) Jane & Gary Harman‟s LaCrosse vineyard located north of Indianola, IA.

Videos of Interest

1. See how wine is made, by Cesar Baeza at the Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville, NY (America‟s oldest winery), 4:59 min.: http://video.about.com/wine/See-How-Wine-Is-Made.htm

9 Articles of Interest

1. Fireside Winery receives accolades during Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition, 12-7-10 – Vinton Today: http://www.vintoniowa.org/articles/Business/article102280.html

2. Wollersheim Winery goes into brandy business, 12-9-10 - The Sauk Prairie Eagle: http://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/article_98299c84-03a1-11e0-81fb- 001cc4c002e0.html

3. Winemakers introduce cheaper, artificial ice wines, 12-15-10 – San Jose Mercury News: (Check out pics of St. Pepin ice wine harvest at Wollersheim Winery.): http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16862623?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com- www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1

4. Iowa’s first wine coop folds, 12-22-10 - Business Record, Des Moines, IA: http://www.businessrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=45&SubSectionID=136&ArticleID=11630

5. New Use of Napa Grapes: Vodka, 12-27-10 – WinesandVines.com: http://www.winesandvines.com/template.cfm?section=news&content=82271&htitle=New%20Use% 20for%20Napa%20Grapes%3A%20Vodka

6. Wine #3 in Nielsen Top 10 Consumer Packaged Goods Growth for 2010 (pdf, page 6) , 12/2010 – The Nielsen Company.

7. North Dakota winery uncorks new products, 12-26-10 – Grand Forks Herald: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/188061/

8. Defying labels: Three Kansas Wineries place in Jefferson Cup Invitational, 12-27-10 – Lawrence Journal World & News: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/dec/27/defying-labels-three-kansas- wineries-place-jeffers/

9.Doctored wine pulled from Walmart shelves (China), 12-28-10 – Inside Retailing: http://www.wineindustryinsight.com/RSS/index.php/hop/latest/doctored-wine-pulled-from-walmart-shelves-inside-retailing/40305

Neeto-Keeno WWW Stuff

1. Minnesota Wine Club: https://www.minnesotawineclub.com/

2. Colorado Association of Viticulture & Enology: http://www.caveonline.org/Links

3 WineAmerica‟s new Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/WineAmerica/102925946431027

4. 1916 Pocket Cyclopediea of Temperance, 389 pp: http://darrow.law.umn.edu/documents/The_Pocket_Cyclopedia_of_Temperance_1916.pdf

5. North Dakota Winery Trail: http://www.ndwinerytrail.com/

10 Calendar of Events:

1-(5-7), Illinois Specialty Crops, Agrotourism and Organic Conference. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield, IL: http://specialtygrowers.com

1-(7 & 8), Kansas Grape Growers & Wine Makers Association Annual Conference – Candlewood Suites, Emporia, KS: http://kansasgrapesandwines.com/

1-15, Bubble Point Wine Filtration Test – Workshop, Breezy Hills Winery – Minden, IA. Sponsored by: Western Iowa Wine Trail: http://westerniowawinetrail.com/ , $20 each. Contact: Darrell Morse at (712) 485-2083 or [email protected]

1- 22, Minnesota Grape Growers Annual Meeting and Winter Symposium, Details later: http://www.mngrapes.org/events/

1-(25-27), Unified Wine & Grape Symposium – Sacramento Conference Center, Sacramento, CA: http://www.unifiedsymposium.org/

1-(28 & 29), Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers & Marketers Conference, Des Moines Airport Holiday Inn . Agenda & Registration: http://www.iafruitvegetablegrowers.org/

2-(4-7), Midwest Grape & Wine Conference – Saint Charles Convention Center, Saint Charles, MO: http://www.midwestgrapeandwineconference.com/

2-(17-19), 7th Annual Cold Climate Grape & Wine Conference – Sheraton Inn, Bloomington, MN. http://www.mngrapes.org/events/

2-(21 & 22), 2011 Ohio Grape and Wine Conference at the Nationwide & Farm Bureau 4-H Center, Registration: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/grapeweb/images/OGEN_29_December_2011_25__OGWC_registration_Information.pdf

2-(24-25), Illinois Grape Growers and Vintner‟s Association Annual Conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield, IL: http://www.illinoiswine.com/conference.html

3-(4-5), Finger Lakes Grape Growers Conference and Trade Show, Holiday Inn – Waterloo, NY: http://flg.cce.cornell.edu/calendar.html

3-(8), Fruit Brandy Distillation Workshop – Mountain Grove Cellars – Missouri State, Mountain Grove, MO: http://mtngrv.missouristate.edu/mtngrvcellars/

3-(18 & 19), Iowa Wine Growers Association Annual Conference - Hotel at Kirkwood Center, Cedar Rapids, IA: http://www.iowawinegrowers.org

3-(25 & 26), All Iowa Horticulture Exposition III, Bridge View Center, Ottumwa, IA: http://www.iowahort.org/

3-(29 to 4-1), Wineries Unlimited – Greater Richmond Virginia Convention Center, Richmond, VA: http://wineriesunlimited.vwm-online.com/

4-(12-14), Save the Date - License to Steal National Wine Marketing Conference, Geneva, Ohio. Details later. http://nationalwinemarketing.com/ 11

6-(20-24), American Society for Enology & Viticulture – Portola Hotel & Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA: http://asev.org/national-conference-2011/

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Michael L. White, ISU Extension Viticulture Specialist 909 East 2nd St. Suite E, Indianola, IA 50125-2892 ph: 515-961-6237, fax: 6017 or [email protected]

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