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Featured Resources
Northern Grapes Project Webinar Videos:
- Managing Acidity in the Winery
- Stabilizing Sweet Wines for Bottling
- Winery Sanitation
- Yeast Selection
- Malolactic Fermentation
- More Project Videos
- Cornell University Viticulture and Enology Program
- Vinification & Brewing Technology Lab – Pilot plant dedicated to research and teaching in wine and brewing sciences.
- GAP/GHP Food Safety Audit – Voluntary, audit-based program from USDA-AMS in partnership with state departments of agriculture verifies adherence to the FDA recommendations.
- Cornell Food Venture Center – Provides comprehensive assistance to food entrepreneurs. Includes technical guide, factsheets, and more.
- Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing (LISW) – The First Certified Sustainable Viticulture Program on the East Coast. Site contains guidelines, news clips, and LISW Twitter feed.
- Cornell Hard Cider Resources – Information on current hard cider research at Cornell and other resources.
Newsletters
- Appellation Cornell – Free quarterly e-newsletter features articles and news about research, teaching, extension programs, collaborations and more.
- Veraison to Harvest – is a weekly newsletter sent by viticulture and enology extension personnel from Lake Erie, Long Island, Hudson Valley and Finger Lakes Programs; sign up by enrolling in their program.
- Cornell Dyson School: Smart Marketing Newsletter – a marketing newsletter that reviews elements critical to successful marketing in the food and agricultural industry.
- More Newsletters
General Information
- Labeling and Advertising of Wine
- Cornell Enology Extension Lab (CEEL)
- NYS Wine Analytical Laboratory
- Vinification & Brewing
- NY Grape and Wine Classifieds
Grape Wine
Sampling/Harvest
- Fruit Chemistry Trends: 2007-2010 (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 875 kb)
- Fruit Chemistry at the Willsboro Cold-Hardy Grape Trial (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 326 kb)
- Long Island Research Vineyard Fruit Chemistry (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 193 kb)
- Thoughts on Sampling and Harvest Decisions (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 198 kb)
- Tracking YAN (Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen) from Veraíson to Harvest (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 550 kb)
- With Maturity Comes… Better Taste? (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 322 kb)
Alcoholic and ML Fermentation
- Fermentation for Distillation (2010 Cellar Dweller, 275 kb)
- What Yeast Do (2011 Appellation Cornell)
- An Ecological Survey of Yeast Species and Strains in Finger Lakes Riesling (2018 Appellation Cornell)
- When MLF is Not the Answer: Strategies to Prevent Malolactic Fermentation (2010 Cellar Dweller, 237 kb)
- The Care and Feeding of Bacteria (2009 Cellar Dweller, 223 kb)
- Stuck Fermentations and Glucose/Fructose Ratios (2009 Cellar Dweller, 209 kb)
- Frequently-Asked Questions about Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 338 kb)
Analysis
- Convenient, inexpensive quantification of elemental sulfur (2015 Appellation Cornell)
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) 3 Ways (2011 Cellar Dweller, 271 kb)
- Conventional Measurements of SO2 in Red Wine Overestimate SO2 Antimicrobial Activity (2018 Appellation Cornell)
- Percent Alcohol 3 Ways (2010 Cellar Dweller, 276 kb)
- Monitoring Malolactic Fermentation 3 Ways (2010 Cellar Dweller, 385 kb)
- Residual/Reducing Sugar 3 Ways (2011 Cellar Dweller, 276 kb)
- Potholes on the Road of Acid Measurement (2011 Cellar Dweller, 271 kb)
- Kicking up a Stink: Treatment for Sulfur Off-Odors (2010 Cellar Dweller, 230 kb)
- Persistence of elemental sulfur spray residue on grapes (2015 Appellation Cornell)
- Sulfur Residues and Post-bottling Formation of Hydrogen Sulfide (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Ask Barry Waite…Chardonnay with Strange but Fruity Aromas and Flavors (2010 Cellar Dweller, 250 kb)
- Ask Barry Waite…Sending a Sample to the Wine Analytical Lab (2010 Cellar Dweller, 252 kb)
Stability/Finishing Adjustments
- SO2 Use (2010 Cellar Dweller, 278 kb)
- Residual Sugar: Chemistry and Perception (2011 Cellar Dweller, 247 kb)
- The science behind cold-stabilization and tartrate removal in the winery (2015 Appellation Cornell)
- Cold Stabilization (2010 Cellar Dweller, 276 kb)
- This Article Contains Sulfites Part I (2012) and Part II (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Let a Little Knowledge Filter Through (2010 Cellar Dweller, 316 kb)
- Managing Acid in 2010 -Step 1: Forget 2009 (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 276 kb)
- Thoughts on Bench Trials (2010 Cellar Dweller, 247 kb)
- Ask Barry Waite…Where the Potassium Meta-bisulfite I Add is Going (2010 Cellar Dweller, 252 kb)
Other
- Cornell Researchers Tackle Green Flavors in Red Wines (2010 Appellation Cornell)
- New Insights on Hybrid Tannin Retention (2015 Appellation Cornell)
- Pathogenesis-related Proteins Limit the Retention of Condensed Tannin Additions to Red Wines (2016 Appellation Cornell)
- Sanitation of Wine Cooperage using Five Different Treatment Methods: an In Vivo study (2013 Appellation Cornell)
- Conversion Factors: From Vineyard to Bottle (2011 Appellation Cornell)
- Formal and Informal Wine Sensory Evaluation (2010 Appellation Cornell)
- Improving Management Options for YAN in the Vineyard and Winery (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 253 kb)
- Ask Barry Waite…blended wine exhibiting slight precipitate (2010 Cellar Dweller, 247 kb)
- New York Winemakers Comment on the 2010 Vintage. (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 301 mb)
- Willsboro Wine Trial Completes 6th Growing Season (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 461 kb)
- Measuring Field-applied Sulfur Residues in Juice and Wine (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 275 kb)
- Botrytis: Will Another Fungicide Spray Help at this Point? (2010 Veraison to Harvest)
- Vignoles Harvest: Shoot thinning, Training System and Botrytis (2010 Veraison to Harvest, 339 kb)
- Experimental Wine Production (1977 FLS Bulletin, 383 kb)
- Composition of New York State Grape Brandies (1974 FLS Bulletin, 249 kb)
- Review of Grape and Wine Toxicity Research (1971 FLS Bulletin, 102 kb)
- Understanding FSMA: Questions About New Food Safety Regulations (2017 Appellation Cornell)
Other Fruit Wines
- Raspberry Wine Production
- Strawberry Wine Production
- Blackberry Wine Production in Fruit and Berry Wine Production in California
- Blueberry Wine Production (Proc. New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference 2003)