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People have been making wine for thousands of years. So why are we still trying to figure out how it happens? This podcast is a discussion of vineyards, wineries and the science behind the art. It turns out there is a lot more to wine than initially meets the nose...

Cornell Cooperative Extension


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    Presspad Podcast #11: Winter Injury

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2014 21:43


    (Photos courtesy of James Monahan, Finger Lakes Grape Program)   That’s right- the Presspad goes to 11.  I bet you didn’t think we could do it.  We didn’t necessarily think we could, either, but here we are for a new season.  And what seasons we’ve had lately.  It is snowing as I write this in […]

    Presspad Podcast #10: New Varieties

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2013


    Cornell has released two new grape varieties- Aromella and Arandell.  In this episode of the Presspad we talk with grape breeder Bruce Reisch and enologist Anna Katharine Mansfield about how the grapes came to be released and named, and some of the wine choices producers might wish to make with them. Links: About the Aromella […]

    Presspad Podcast #9: Winery Sanitation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2012


    Want to know a dirty secret about the wine business?  It’s mostly about keeping things clean.  Sorry about that.  Anyway, if the three most important words in real estate are “location, location, location,” then the three most important words in winemaking are probably “sanitation, sanitation, sanitation.”  This not-so-glamorous but oh-so-necessary side of the business is […]

    Presspad #8: Frost Damage

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2012


    It was a strange spring in the East: March was unseasonably warm, and then April was all-too-seasonably cold.  The result of these temperature ups and downs was frost damage to many fruit crops.  What is frost damage?  Is it permanent?  Is it fatal?  How did the grapes fare?  Why are temperatures that are harmless in […]

    Presspad #7: eXtension, eViticulture, National Grape Community of Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2012 25:29


    By finding this post, you are confirming our suspicion that everybody does everything electronically these days.  With the online universe being the go-to place for finding information, we in the business of providing information are trying to come up with good ways to do so.  This episode of the Presspad is a conversation with some […]

    Presspad #6: Ice Wine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2012


    As I type this, I am looking at green grass and bright sunshine out my window in Mid-March.  We did have winter in the northeast, however, and we even had a few days where it was cold enough to make one of the most exotic and challenging delicacies ever put under cork: ice wine.  In […]

    Presspad #5: 2011 on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2012 28:44


    In this episode we are joined by Alice Wise of the Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center and Steve Hoying from the Hudson Valley Laboratory to talk about the 2011 harvest from their perspective.

    Presspad Podcast #4

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2011


    From the Outside Looking In… Winemakers are constantly on guard against “cellar palate,” a condition contracted from tasting your wines and your wines only.   At a certain point you can no longer recognize strengths and weaknesses that would be immediately obvious to someone tasting the wine for the first time.  The cure for cellar […]

    Presspad Podcast #3

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2011


    It was a very good year…or was it? In this edition of the Presspad pocast, we talk about the 2011 from a growing and winemaking perspective- the good, the not so good, and the weird.  Of course, now that I’ve used the word “good” three times in the title and the first sentence, I need […]

    Presspad Podcast #2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2011


    Botrytis in the vineyard and winery.

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