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ASEV Selects 2021 Best Enology and Viticulture Papers February 25, 2021 DAVIS, Calif., February 24, 2021…The American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) has selected the 2021 Best Paper Award winners. The authors are presented with a plaque and monetary award and will be presenting their papers during the 2021 Virtual ASEV National Conference, June 21-24. Both papers are highlighted on www.ajevonline.org and are available free of charge.  The 2021 Best Viticulture Paper, “Soil Temperature Prior to Veraison Alters Grapevine Carbon Partitioning, Xylem Sap Hormones, ...

Photo credit: Pexels / Tim Mossholder. News from California throughout the 2020 harvest season was overwhelmingly focused on devastation: record heat waves, uncontrollable wildfires, burned vineyards, smoke tainted wines, and shuttered tasting rooms.  The worst fire season on record will cause most people to remember 2020 as the Golden State’s worst harvest on record. But in reality, the percentage of grapes impacted by smoke taint across the states was lower than many vintners expected, with entire swaths of California wine country unaffected, according to early lab tests conducted by win...