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Featured Resources
- Viticulture and Enology Extension – Bud hardiness data and other resources for grape growers and winemakers.
- Efficient Vineyard – New project delivering an innovative, science-driven, and approachable precision viticulture platform to measure and manage sources of vineyard variation.
- New York Guide to Sustainable Viticulture Practices – Maintain profits while protecting water quality, soil, and human health through the use of the grower self-assessment workbook.
- Wine Grape Production Guide for Eastern North America [2008, PALS book #145] – Comprehensive reference on all aspects of wine grape culture, including site selection and preparation, trellising and pruning, disease and pest identification, nutrient management, irrigation, pesticide application, harvesting, vineyard cost and returns, and grape sales.
- Starting A Winery in Northern New York – The report provides a general overview of starting a winery in Northern New York. You will find information on current wine sales, markets, winery establishment costs, licensing resources, growing grapes vs purchasing grapes or juice, winery building, and potential financial help resources. Here is the associated cost calculator spreadsheet for new wineries.
- Frost Protection – Resources for berry, grape, and tree fruit growers on how to limit frost damage.
Videos
- Scheid Shoot Thinning Demo – LERGP Podcast #115
- Pruning of Wine Grape Vines
- Pruning of Concord Grape Vines
- Soil Testing
- Laser Planting
- Crop Thinning & Estimation
- Petiole Gathering
- Hail Damage
- Bud Injury Testing Part 1
- Bud Injury Testing Part 2
- Cover Crops in the Vineyard
- Adjusting a grape harvester for crop estimation or crop thinning
Grapes 101: How vines work
From Appellation Cornell:
- Resource Assimilation and Vineyard Productivity
- How Grapevines Respond to Water Stress
- Sources and Sinks: Allocation of Photosynthates during the Growing Season
- Untangling the Concepts of Vine size, capacity, crop level, vigor, and vine balance
- Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design
- Bud Fruitfulness and Yield
- Manipulating Cluster Size at Bloom
- How Grapevine Buds Gain and Lose Cold-hardiness
- Managing Winter-Injured Vines
- How Grapevines Reconnect in the Spring
- Lessons from the Big Dig: Dry Matter, Nitrogen uptake and fertilizer efficiency
- Potassium – From the Soil to The Wine
- How Grapevine Roots Grow
- How Grapevine Flowers Form
- What Happens from Véraison to Harvest?
- How Defoliation, Defruiting, and Extreme Shoot Reduction Affected Clusters, Fruit Composition, and Bud Hardiness
General Information
- New York Grape Growing Regions
- VineBalance: New York Guide to Sustainable Viticulture Practices
- NY and PA Pest Management Guidelines
- Growing Table Grapes in a Temperate Climate (2002 Michigan State University)
- Understanding Frost & Freeze Events (2013, M. Fargione, 3 MB)
Organic Production
- 2022 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Grapes – Includes information on site-selection, soil health, cover crops, nutrient management and recommendations for how to manage insects, diseases, weeds and other pests using organic practices.
- Organic Viticulture in New York: Proceedings from the Third N. J. Shaulis Organic Grape and Wine Production Symposium
Site Selection & Vineyard Establishment
- New York Vineyard Site Evaluation System
- Macroclimate in New York and Site Suitability (338 kb)
- Continentality in Relation to Vineyard Site Selection (2002 Robert Pool, Revised 2011, html)
- Long Island Site Selection and Preparation
- Long Island Vineyard Timeline
- Grape Grower Checklist (Virginia Tech)
- How Close are We to Crown Gall-Free Nursery Stock? (2012 Appellation Cornell)
- Clean Plants for the Future of the Eastern Wine and Grape Industry (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Modeling the Impacts of Weather and Cultural Factors on Rotundone Concentration in Cool-climate Noiret Wine Grapes (2019 Appellation Cornell)
Cultivars & Rootstocks
- Cornell Grape Varieties – 59 introductions since 1906
- Flavor Challenges of Breeding Disease-Resistant Grapes using North American vitis spp. (2019 Appellation Cornell)
- Introducing Aromella and Arandell – Newest Products of Cornell’s Grape Breeding Program (2013 Appellation Cornell)
- Developing New Fruit Varieties (Impact Cornell)
- Wine and Juice Grape Varieties for Cool Climates
- Wine Grapes for New York’s North Country: The Willsboro Cold Climate Variety Trial (2017 Appellation Cornell)
- Table Grape Varieties for Cool Climates
- Foundation Plant Services (FPS) Grapes – National listing of nurseries, varieties and clones. (UC Davis)
- Long Island Varieties and Rootstocks
- Cold Climate Cultivars (2008, Iowa State)
- Cornell Grapevine Breeding and Genetics Program
- ‘Aromella’ (2013 CCTEC info flyer)
- ‘Arandell’ (2013 CCTEC info flyer)
- ‘Corot noir’ Grape (2006 FLS bulletin, 1.3 mb)
- ‘Noiret’ Grape (2006 FLS bulletin, 1.3 mb)
- ‘Valvin Muscat’ Grape (2006 FLS bulletin, 1.4 mb)
- Recent Releases and Numbered Selections from the Geneva Grape Breeding Program (2013)
- Rootstocks For Planting Or Replanting New York Vineyards (2005, from FL Vineyard Notes)
- Vine Size Management in Eastern Vineyards (2000 Robert Pool, Revised 2011)
- Grapevine Domestication and Diversity (2011 Appellation Cornell Newsletter, 119 kb)
- Growing Vitis vinifera grapes in New York State (1990, NYSAES, 22 MB)
- Pinot Noir Clonal Research in New York (2000 Robert Pool)
- Older FLS Variety Release Bulletins – Now Archived
Training Systems, Canopy and Undervine Management
- Impact of Fruit-Zone Leaf Removal on Rotundone Concentration in Noiret (2018 Appellation Cornell)
- How radical manipulation of sources and sinks affected Riesling yield, bud hardiness, and return crop (2019 Appellation Cornell)
- Considerations on Spatial Crop Load Mapping (2019 Appellation Cornell)
- Vineyard cover crops save expense, environment (Cornell Chronicle July 18, 2016)
- Expanding the Use of Under-Vine Cover Crops in NY Vineyards (2018 Appellation Cornell)
- Adopting Under-Vine Cover Crops in Vinifera Vineyards (2017 Appellation Cornell)
- Impact of Undervine Management on Vine Growth, Yield, Fruit Composition, and Wine Sensory Analyses of Cabernet franc (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Untangling the Concepts of Vine Size, Capacity, Crop Level, Vigor, and Vine Balance (2013 Appellation Cornell)
- Nuts and Bolts of Canopy Management (2012 Northern Grapes Project webinar)
- Comparing and Contrasting Vertical Shoot Positioning and Top Wire Cordon Training Systems (2015 Northern Grapes Project webinar)
- Impact of fruit zone sunlight exposure on fruit composition of cold climate hybrid grapes (2019 Northern Grapes Project webinar) More project webinars
- Shoot Positioning Native American (Concord-type) Grapevines (1990 FLS bulletin)
- Comparing and Contrasting Vertical Shoot Positioning and Top Wire Cordon Training Systems (2015 Northern Grape Project webinar)
- Shoot Density and Canopy Management for Hybrids
- Training Systems for New York Vineyards (2000 Robert Pool, Revised 2011)
- Managing Shoot-Positioned Canopies for Vinifera Grapes (2000 FL Vineyard Notes)
- Shoot Positioning Native American (Concord-type) Grapevines (1990 FLS bulletin)
- Shoot Thinning and Harvest Date on Yield, Fruit, and Wine Quality of Marechal Foch (2011 Appellation Cornell)
- Sensors Provide Information to Guide Variable-Rate Mechanical Fruit Thinning and Prevent Overcropping of Concord Grapes (2018 Appellation Cornell)
- Cornell Researchers Tackle Green Flavors in Red Wines (2010 Appellation Cornell Newsletter)
- Palissage Reduces Cluster Zone Lateral Shoots Compared to Hedging (2019 Appellation Cornell Newsletter)
Winter Injury
- Assessing Winter Cold Injury to Grape Buds (2000 Robert Pool, Revised 2011)
- Assessing Winter Cold Injury of Grape Canes and Trunks (2000 Robert Pool, Revised 2011)
- Grapevine Winter Survival and Prospects in an Age of Changing Climate (March 2016 Appellation Cornell)
- How Grapevine Buds Gain and Lose Cold-hardiness (2011 Appellation Cornell)
- The Big Chill: Cold Acclimation and Recovery from Spring Frost in Grapes in New York (2015 Northern Grape Project webinar) More project webinars
- Current Bud Hardiness Information for New York (Selections from Cornell Grape Breeding Program)
- The Anatomy of Winter Injury and Recovery (2004)
- The Perfect Freeze: 2004
- Estimate of Crop and Wine Losses Due to Winter Injury in the Finger Lakes
- Evaluating Cultural Practices for Recovery from Cold Damage in Grapevines (2018 Northern Grapes Project webinar) More project webinars
- Deconstructing cold hardiness: variation in supercooling ability and chilling requirements in the wild grapevine Vitis riparia (2019 Appellation Cornell)
- X-ray imaging allows nondestructive investigation of grape bud morphology and freezing (2020 Appellation Cornell)
Site, Soil, Nutrient & Water Management
- How Grapevines Respond to Water Stress (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Vine Nutrition (2013 Northern Grapes Project webinar) More project webinars
- Lessons from the Big Dig: Dry Matter, Nitrogen Uptake and Fertilizer Efficiency (2013 Appellation Cornell)
- Untangling the Concepts of Vine Size, Capacity, Crop Level, Vigor, and Vine Balance (2013 Appellation Cornell3)
- Soil and Petiole Testing (Lake Erie Regional Grape Program)
- Long Island Nutrient Testing (Suffolk CCE grape program)
- Agro-One Services – Provides Soil and Plant Tissue analysis
- Buffer pH to Derive Lime Guidelines (2010, Agronomy Fact Sheet #48)
- Soil pH and Mineral Nutrition of Vitis vinifera Varieties (2000 Robert Pool, Revised 2011)
- Optimizing Nitrogen Use in Vineyards (2006 Sustainable Viticulture Newsletter)
- Cornell Soil Health Website
- Soil and Water Conservation Practices for Vineyards (2006 Sustainable Viticulture Newsletter)
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably (2007, SARE 4.5 mb)
Harvest & Maturity
- Estimating and Adjusting Crop Weight in Finger Lakes Vineyards (2001 Robert Pool, Reviewed 2011)