New Jersey Winegrape Growing Symposium To Feature Experts in Viticulture And Wine Economics
March 18, 2011 A one-day symposium on Successful Wine Growing in the Garden State: Selected Site, Variety, and Economic Considerations, will be held Saturday, April 9 at the Snyder Research Farm in Pittstown, NJ.
The symposium will continue the theme of increasing competitiveness and enhancing sustainability of viticulture in new Jersey, which began with last year’s symposium held in Ceneterton, NJ. That symposium focused on Bordeaux terroir as a benchmark for New Jersey and featured Dr. Kees van Leeuwen, of the University of Bordeaux and Ch. Cheval Blanc.
This year, the keynote lecturers for the morning session will be Dr. Marco Stefanini, a leading viticulture researcher at the Foundation Edmund Mach of the Istituto Agrario di San Michele All’Adige in Italy, and Dr. Silvia Vezzulli, also a researcher at the Foundation and specialist in grape genetics and genomics. They will discuss the successful winegrape varieties of the Trentino-Alto Adige region and their potential for New Jersey. Following the discussion will be a wine tasting of grape varieties from that northern Italian region, which shares climatic characteristics with some regions of New jersey. Later, a buffet lunch including New Jersey wines made from northern Italian and other cold-hardy vinifera varieties will be served.
For additional information about the event, go to www.outercoastalplain.com, or eMail [email protected].
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