Winners declared at the International Cold Climate Wine Competition!
The 2023 International Cold Climate Wine Competition was held on Wednesday, August 16 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The competition, hosted by the Minnesota Grape Growers Association, included hundreds of wines from across the Northern US that were made with at least 75% cold hardy hybrid grape cultivars (many of which were developed by programs that participate in VitisGen3!) Read on to learn which wines rose to the top of the 15 categories under judgement by the panel of industry experts.
SevenFiftyDaily: Could Gene Editing Create More Disease-Resistant Grape Varieties?
The spotlight is on VitisGen3, "the only project of this scale that’s achieved this much in the United States," in a new piece from SevenFiftyDaily. The negative impact of powdery mildew in the vineyard is vast, and the use of gene-editing technology could help by producing resistance in beloved winegrape cultivars.
Gene edited table grapes: are consumers willing to pay?
There are a lot of opinions about genetic engineering in horticultural crops, but are people willing to pay for table grapes that have been gene edited? Our economists found that the answer is “yes” and that the most important traits consumers consider when buying grapes are taste and texture.