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Friday's
High Elevation/High Latitude
Seminar
Features
"Wine Growing On the
Edge"
The
Unified Wine & Grape Symposium's High Elevation/High
Latitude Seminar: Wine Growing On the
Edge, scheduled for Friday,
January 29, will take a close look at the challenges of
grape growing and wine making in these intriguing
regions of the world.
"We
want to showcase the uniqueness of the wines coming from
several regions," said Glenn McGourty, UC Cooperative
Extension viticulture advisor for Mendocino and
Lake counties, who is
coordinating the seminar. "There is an old quote, 'On
the edge of adaptation you will find brilliance,' and as
our industry continues to focus on terroir, interest in
the style and quality of the wines coming from these
regions has never been greater."
International
speakers are Vittorino Novello, Professor of
Viticulture, University of Torino, Piemonte, Italy, and Pat Bowen,
Pacific
Agri-Food
Research
Center,
Okanagan, Canada.
Topics
that will be explored
include:
o How
Climate Changes With Elevation and Latitude, and
Implications
for Winegrowing
o Winegrowing
in the Far North From the Perspective of a
Grape
Vine Physiologist
o Mountain
Viticulture in Europe:
Challenges to Production and
Sustainability
o Cultural
Practices in New
Zealand, Argentina and
other regions
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