US: Fresno Prof Works to Grow a Later, Tastier Grape
US: Fresno Prof Works to Grow a Later, Tastier Grape
Nov 27, 2011 6
(AP) - As you contemplate that Thanksgiving wine you relished on Thursday, ponder for a moment a world too hot to grow fine grapes.
Dr. Sanliang Gu does every day.
For a dozen years his obsession has been to manipulate the growing cycle of grapes around Fresno, California's hottest and therefore earliest-ripening wine region. This week he succeeded: the 2011 vintage that normally would have been picked in July or August came off the vines two days before Thanksgiving — about three weeks after Napa's weather-delayed harvest ended.
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