Grape white rot, caused by Coniella diplodiella (Speg.) Sacc. (Cd), significantly impacts grape production and quality, highlighting the need for effective disease management strategies beyond ...

Damaged grape berries combined with vinegar flies are a recipe for promoting sour rot, a disease that lowers vineyard yields and wine quality, according to a Cornell study reporting on field ...

Tim Rehbein of the Vernon County UW-Extension Office said ripe rot is a fungus where the spores landed on the grapes midsummer, weather conditions became hot and humid, the disease started growing as ...

For chardonnay grapes in Sonoma County, now's not the time to still be hanging out in the vineyard. Wet, cool weather earlier this month and again last week has given unpicked chardonnay grapes a bad ...

Introducing Aravelle – a new white wine grape that was 42 years in the making. Cornell grape breeder Bruce Reisch made the hybrid by crossing Cayuga white and riesling grapes in 1981, at the start of ...

This terroir promotes ideal growing conditions for the six grape varieties used to produce Tokaji Aszu wines. The area benefits from the warm summer winds whistling in from the plains to the south, ...

Okayama scientists have crafted a new wine grape, Muscat Shiragai, merging the wild Shiraga and Muscat of Alexandria. The ...

NORMALLY, ONE DOES NOT want things to wither on the vine — the phrase connotes that most grievous of losses, wasted potential. But in the case of Tokaji, the national wine of Hungary, withering is ...