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Harvest has begun at the only winery in North America that harvests Riverbank grapes and it's just half an hour from Fargo.Kesselring Vineyards in Kindred uses Vitis Riparia better known as Riverbank grapes
241 Shares Alfredo Alcántara and Deanna Urciuoli moved to a cockroach-infested apartment in Brooklyn to save for a down payment on a piece of farmland in Upstate New York. There, they planned to begin their dream of building a sustainable vineyard using hybrid varieties of grapes. Matt Niess quit his job at the critically acclaimed Northern California winery Radio-Coteau a couple of years ago to focus full-time on cultivating and farming hybrid grapes, an unpopular move in California wine country. Erin Rasmussen left a wine job in Sonoma Valley to return to her home state of Wisconsin in...
Snow, Freeze Events Hit Vineyards in the Midwest and East Missouri and Ohio vineyards had the lowest temperatures on April 20-21 and 21-22 April 26, 2021 This frosted shoot on a one-year-old Cabernet Sauvignon vine was very close to the ground during the freeze event on April 21-22 in Missouri. Photo Credit: Dean Volenberg Vitis Riparia broke bud on about April 6, 2021 in Missouri, and the shoots were damaged by the frost event on April 21-22. Photo Credit: Dean Volenberg When temperatures warm up in late March and early April in the Midwest and East, grape growers start to cross...