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NE1020: Multi-state Evaluation of Winegrape Cultivars and Clones

Annual/Termination Reports (SAES-422): [01/31/2006] [08/02/2006] [08/02/2006] [01/14/2008] [12/04/2008] [01/18/2010] [01/03/2011] [01/02/2012] [01/15/2013]

Date of Annual Report: 01/31/2006

Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/15/06 to 11/16/06
  • Period the Report Covers: 01/2006 to 09/2006

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    -November 2006, Annual meeting, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

    -The proposed climatic classification system was re-defined during the 2006 annual meeting in Raleigh, N.C.

    -Trial locations were classified according to this altered classification system.

    -Parameters for trial establishment were further defined (trellis, spacing, rootstocks)

    -Planting plans and variety selection for 24 trial locations were coordinated and finalised

    Impact Statements:
    1. The long term outcome of this project is to improve the competitiveness of U.S. grape growers and wineries by providing performance information about lesser-known cultivars and clones.
    2. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - East, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Eastern U.S." PIs: T. Wolf (Virginia Tech) and K. Striegler (Univ. of Missouri); $30,216
    3. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - West, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Western U.S." PI: J. Wolpert (UC Davis); $8,832
    Last Modified: 12-Feb-2007

    Date of Annual Report: 08/02/2006

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/02/05 to 11/03/05
  • Period the Report Covers: 06/2005 to 12/2005

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    May 2005, Inaugural Meeting, University of California, Davis

    * Researchers met at UC Davis to discuss the project, its goals and timetables.

    * A governance structure was discussed and set in place

    * A future meeting structure was set in place

    November 2005, First Annual Meeting, Winchester, VA (T. Wolf, host)

    * Research protocols were discussed

    o Standard varieties were established for various climatic conditions

    o Plot establishment parameters were established (spacing and trellis)

    o Vineyard data proposed

    - Climate at the site

    - Vine growth and reproductive indices

    - Fruit quality indices

    o Winemaking protocols

    - Processing protocols

    - Chemical analyses

    - Sensory analyses

    * Where protocols needed addition discussion, sub-committees were formed (see Minutes)

    * Strategy for submission of research proposals (06-07) was discussed and agreed.

    * Meeting date and location were set for November, 2006, at North Carolina State University (S. Spayd, host) " Officer succession was set forth (see Minutes)

    Impact Statements:
    1. Coordinated plantings of winegrapes will allow wider use of the data, particularly in the eastern U.S., where states in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest have growing conditions that are similar enough to allow inferences to be drawn from cultivar trials in neighboring states. The NE-1020 represents the first such coordinated effort.
    2. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - East, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Eastern U.S." PIs: T. Wolf (Virginia Tech) and K. Striegler (Univ. of Missouri); $30,216
    3. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - West, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Western U.S." PI: J. Wolpert (UC Davis); $8,832
    Last Modified: unknown

    Date of Annual Report: 08/02/2006

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 05/26/05 to 05/27/05
  • Period the Report Covers: 01/2004 to 05/2005

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    NE-1020 members are sharing information about existing research trials of cultivars and clones, and discussed strategies for planning future trials. It was determined that uniform procedures would be developed that would allow meaningful evaluation of viticulture characteristics and wine quality potential of clones of economically significant cultivars throughout the USA at multiple test sites. Data could be compared by the use of 'control' selections in each test block. Plans were made for the development of coordinated proposals for funding to purchase nursery stock for planting the first trials which will be used to characterize the viticultural and wine quality potential of emerging cultivars based on regional needs.

    Impact Statements:
    1. We anticipate that the establishment of this network of national trials will help grapevine nurseries, grape growers, and vintners become more competitive both within their region or production area and in the international market.The environmental impact of wine grape production would be reduced by identifying disease and pest resistant cultivars and cultivars. Alternative cultivar/product options would be created for areas where traditional cultivars and markets have declined.Our national grape importation program would be enhanced by evaluation data that would improve our ability to judge the potential impact of introducing individual accessions.Grape breeding and selection programs would be more efficient due to a better understanding of grape and wine genotype X environmental interactions and nature of clonal variation.
    Last Modified: unknown

    Date of Annual Report: 01/14/2008

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/07/07 to 11/08/07
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2006 to 09/2007

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    -November 2007, Annual meeting, Austin, TX

    -Proposals were submitted to VCE and VCW, but nor funded due to VC cancellation. The 2007 proposals will be resubmitted in 2008 with updated varieties and cost of establishment.

    -New collaborators from the East (New Jersey) and West (Oregon and New Mexico) were added to participate in NE1020

    -The viticulture protocol was refined with detailed procedures of vineyard establishment, cultural practices, and data collection.

    -Data collection was further divided into: required (1 and 2), optional (1 and 2), and observations that can recorded.

    -Varieties that are part of the NE1020 and not free of virus will receive a priority to be cleaned by FPS and other designated centers in the country.

    -Most varieties were grafted by Nova Vine nursery and will be made available for planting in 2008.

    Impact Statements:
    1. The long term outcome of this project is to improve the competitiveness of U.S. grape growers and wineries by providing performance information about lesser-known cultivars and clones.
    2. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - East, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Eastern U.S." PIs: T. Wolf (Virginia Tech) and K. Striegler (Univ. of Missouri); not funded for reason described above.
    3. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - West, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Western U.S." PI: J. Wolpert (UC Davis); not funded for reason described above.
    Last Modified: 13-Feb-2008

    Date of Annual Report: 12/04/2008

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/06/08 to 11/07/08
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2007 to 09/2008

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    - The 2008 proposals will be resubmitted in 2009 by Bill Nail (CT) and Tim Martinson (NY), focusing on cost of maintenance of the established vineyards.

    - Each state investigator's update on their project and the status is following the scheduled timeline.

    - The viticulture protocol was refined and discussed with detailed procedures on cultural practices, data collection and wine-making. Sub-committees, established in 2008, will make protocols available for all collaborators in February 2009.

    Impact Statements:
    1. The long term outcome of this project is to improve the competitiveness of U.S. grape growers and wineries by providing performance information about lesser-known cultivars and clones.
    2. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - East, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Eastern U.S." PIs: T. Wolf (Virginia Tech) and Tim Martinson (Cornell).
    3. Grant Submitted and Funded: USDA Viticultural Consortium - West, "Coordinated Wine Grape Evaluations in the Western U.S." PI: J. Wolpert (UC Davis); not funded.
    Last Modified: 19-Jan-2009

    Date of Annual Report: 01/18/2010

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/04/09 to 11/05/09
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2008 to 09/2009

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    Tom Burr was introduced as the new Administrative Advisor for NE1020. Various potential funding sources were discussed including SCRI, Federal Formula Funds and Viticultural Consortium. In addition the National Clean Plant Network was discussed with regards to how a portion of the funding would be used for grapes. Potential locations nationally for foundation plantings were discussed. Opportunities for the NCPN to collaborate with NE1020 were discussed. Committee reports were presented with emphasis on protocols for data collection, how weather events such as freeze impact data collection, statistical methods and there was significant attention paid to possible enological evaluations that may be done on the project and how it may be funded. State reports followed and discussion on the writing of Viticultural Consortium proposals.


    URL: Copy of minutes

    Accomplishments:
    Bruce Reisch reported on promising results from NY95.0301.01, also NY 76.0844.24 and NY81.0315.17 both in grape quality and for excellent disease resistance. A number of state members reported some problems with their plant material, either not surviving or being of incorrect varieties. It was decided that for future meetings all state reports will follow the format used by NE-1040. Imed Dami will right the 2010 VC East proposal and Bernd Maier will write the VC West. These are the major sources of external funding to support the project.

    Impact Statements:
    1. The long term impact for this project is to provide accurate information on the performance of important but lesser-known grape varieties and clones to the grape industry.
    2. Several replicated plantings have been established that will serve as important resources for vine evaluation over a wide range of climactic conditions. Data collection is being coordinated in a manner that will provide the most meaningful information to stakeholders.
    Last Modified: 28-Mar-2011

    Date of Annual Report: 01/03/2011

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/09/10 to 11/11/10
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2009 to 09/2010

    • Participants:

    URL: Copy of participant list
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    The annual meeting was held in Traverse City MI on November 10. Administrative advisor, Tom Burr provided updates on federal situations that may have significant impacts on the research projects that fall within NE1020. These included election results, the current prognosis for earmark funding, such as Viticultural Consortium and issues associated with the 2012 Farm Bill. Nancy Sweet followed with comments on FPS with particular attention to funding and program development under the National Clean Plant Network. Election of the 2011 secretary resulted with Paul Read from NE being elected. Doug Buhler, MSU Agricultural Experiment Station Director, made comments related to MSU facilities in the Traverse City area. Committee reports were given. The discussion throughout the committee reports and state reports focused on the goals of NE1020 and how to collect data from the field experiments in the different states in a standardized and meaningful manner. Several variables and conditions such as frost and killing of vines by different causes all affect uniform data collection. NE1020 project members are striving to produce data that will valuable to the US wine industry. Committee reports included Viticulture, chair Tim Martinson, NY, Data Collection and Statistics committee, chair Dan Ward, PA, Meteorology Committee, Tony Wolf, VA and Enology Committee, Steve Menke, CO. Considerable discussion followed on development of a standard wine making procedure that would fit all regions and member facilities.

    Accomplishments:
    Annual reports from contributing states were delivered. NE1020 used to maintain its website and reports on a PSU server. Because of the loss of an IT person at PSU this is not longer possible. NE1020 will approach NGWI to determine if they may place their website along with NGWI. A significant amount of time was spent on discussing data collection protocols. The members of NE1020 continue to strive to ensure that data collected following significant investment of time and funding from different sources will be of significant value to researchers and stakeholders. Concern was expressed that funding received from the Viticultural Consortium grants program for NE1020 was reduced this year. A communication from VC grants coordinator expressed that reduced funds were available to fund all proposals in 2010. It was discussed what priority data would be collected from the field plots should all funding from VC be lost. Ed Helman will write the VC West proposal. Imed Dami will write the VC East proposal.

    Impact Statements:
    1. The long term impact for this project is to provide accurate information on the performance of important but lesser-known grape varieties and clones to the grape industry.
    2. Several replicated plantings have been established that will serve as important resources for vine evaluation over a wide range of climactic conditions. Data collection is being coordinated in a manner that will provide the most meaningful information to stakeholders.
    Last Modified: 03-Jan-2011

    Date of Annual Report: 01/02/2012

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/02/11 to 11/03/11
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2010 to 09/2011

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    URL: Copy of minutes
    Accomplishments:
    A major project goal is to provide evaluation data for grapevine cultivars that will be useful to grape growers nationwide. Short term outcomes are summarized in annual reports presented at this meeting which demonstrate very good progress is being made on cultivar evaluations. There are obvious differences between climatic regions that will become more apparent as the reports come together.

    Activities included in depth discussions of processes for evaluations that will result in optimum information continue to be discussed. This is truly a national project that requires a long term to completion and the members are working well together to reach these goals. The next phase in this project will include wine evaluations. Discussions currently involve the most efficient procedure for making the wines that can be compared across regions.

    Significant discussion included funding for the research that is being done. With the loss of the Viticultural Consortium special grant other sources of funding will be considered including other federal, state and private sources.

    Impact Statements:
    1. The impacts from this project will not be realized for a few more years. Cultivar evaluations are on schedule and the impacts to the national grape industry should be significant.
    Last Modified: 02-Jan-2012

    Date of Annual Report: 01/15/2013

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 11/14/12 to 11/15/12
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2013 to 09/2013

    • Participants:

    URL: Copy of participant list
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:

    Bill Nail, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station,NE-1020 Chair, called meeting to order. Tim Martinson nominated Anne Fennell to serve as secretary, 2nd Fiola.

    Review of 2011 minutes submitted by Paul Reed: Sara Spayd moved to approve, Harlene 2nd All approved Minutes, requested that a list of attendees to be added to minutes.

    NE-1020 Administrative Advisor Report,Tom Burr, Cornell University, via conference call. NE1020 termination is in 2017. We need to begin gathering project outcomes and impacts by 2015 to prepare for project renewal. It is important to keep AES directors in loop as this project is maturing and producing results. It is going to require individual state support and other sources to maintain project continuity. Suggestion that we consider National Research Support Projects (NRSP) which focus on enabling technologies and support activities to accomplish research priorities. Outcomes and Impacts from NE1020 were identified to include. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for two SCRI projects with majority of membership participating. Improved grape and wine quality in a challenging environment: An eastern US model for sustainability and economic vitality; T. Wolf PI. Northern Grapes: Integrating viticulture, winemaking, and marketing of new cold-hardy cultivars supporting new and growing rural wineries; T. Martinson PI. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for multiple individual state grants supporting NE1020 and related research. Protocols for project data have been established Risk management impacts for cultivar sustainability are emerging These include, cultivars prone to early budbreak and freeze injury, cultivars pone to early fall freezes, disease susceptibility characteristics, advanced selections that are well adapted to cold climate and promising V. vinifera cultivars Information resulting from project is transmitted by multiple project members to industry through Newsletters, field days, websites and at regional and national meetings. 2012 reports indicated 65 presentation/workshops, 5 publications, 1 thesis and 7 additional grants. Not all states reported this information. Committee Reports were then given including, Data Analysis Committee from Dan Ward. Data template was distributed to membership August 26, 2012. Template was reviewed and amendments were suggested. Dan will send revised template out. Viticulture Committee, Horst Caspari. A discussion of whether we needed uniform state report format occurred and ended with no motion as it was indicated that the data template and data deposition would provide uniform data deposition across states. If clear errors in plant materials exist, these can be deleted from experiment.

    Enology Committee,Sara Spayd. Enology protocol has been drafted. Wine and sensory aspects will be challenging due to facilities and costs. Plot vine numbers make replicated batches (3 gallon) within one year unrealistic. Many states do not have enology facilities. Issues that need to be addressed: Make one batch per year and evaluate over multiple years. Can a portion of NE1020 be dedicated to evaluation? How to evaluate? Need a form and method to do this efficiently. Sara is going to look at current protocols again and costs.

    Publications and Data Sharing Committee from Bruce Reisch. The committee established in 2011 (Paul Read, Bruce Reisch and Tim Martinson). Dan will set up a password protected respository for data deposition that is available to project members only (data sharing policy and results analysis, protocols and pdfs). Data using revised template will be deposited by July 15 annually. Bruce Reisch indicated that parentage of selections cannot be published as the breeder will lose right to patent cultivars. Use of data must conform to data sharing policy.

    Meteorology Committee from Dan Ward. Meteorological data sheets (hourly high and low and daily precipitation) are in the data template. Discussion occurred concerning first frost/killing frost. Leaf fall was not considered appropriate because of disease interaction. If you can record leaf killing freeze report it.

    Update on the National Clean Plan Network was given by Nancy Sweet, Sue Sim. Update on grape cultivars that have been processed and requested for recommendations and contacts for other cultivars that the community would like to have brought into system. http://nationalcleanplantnetwork.org/ and http://fpms.ucdavis.edu Northern Grapes Project was reviewed by Tim Martinson. Requested phenology, bud and shoot counts, harvest and weather data for Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, Marquette, La Crescent and St. Croix by January 8th 2013. He will present report How climate influenced grape maturity in 11 Northern Grape variety trials from South Dakota to Massachusetts at Northern Grapes Project Symposium , February 5-6, 2013 in Rochester, NY.

    The State Reports by members present-reports will be deposited to site created by Dan Ward for data deposition and reports.

    Paul Read-NE host meeting in 2013, Justine Vanden Heuvel, Martinson-NY host meeting in 2014, Fennell secretary 2012 and meeting host in 2015.

    Accomplishments:
    Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for two SCRI projects with majority of membership participating. Improved grape and wine quality in a challenging environment: An eastern US model for sustainability and economic vitality; T. Wolf PI. Northern Grapes: Integrating viticulture, winemaking, and marketing of new cold-hardy cultivars supporting new and growing rural wineries; T. Martinson PI. Coordinated plantings have provided the basis for multiple individual state grants supporting NE1020 and related research. Protocols for project data have been established Risk management impacts for cultivar sustainability are emerging Cultivars prone to early budbreak and freeze injury Cultivars pone to early fall freezes Disease susceptibility characteristics Advanced selections that are well adapted to cold climate Promising V. vinifera cultivars Information resulting from project is transmitted by multiple project members to industry through Newsletters, field days, websites and at regional and national meetings. 2012 reports indicated 65 presentation/workshops, 5 publications, 1 thesis and 7 additional grants.

    Impact Statements:
    Last Modified: 15-Jan-2013
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