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EDITOR'S LETTER Two Magazines Under One Cover Practical Winery & Vineyard now comes inside Wines & Vines T his is the first issue of Wines & Vines in which Practical Winery & Vineyard is included as a special section. Our two magazines have completed a merger that benefits readers of both periodicals by giving them two publications in one. In January Practical Winery & Vineyard Journal sent its final independent issue to subscribers, and from now on its editorial content will be delivered inside Wines & Vines. That means subscribers to Practical Winery & Vineyard (PWV) are receiving Wines & Vines now. They will get the combined magazines monthly instead of PWV on a quarterly basis. It also means they will benefit from the extensive editorial content in Wines & Vines, along with the same number and quality of technical articles they've come to rely on from PWV. Those who already subscribed to both publications will have their Wines & Vines subscriptions extended by the length of time left on their PWV subscriptions. Both magazines were already under the umbrella of the Wine Communications Group of Sonoma, Calif., but this issue makes the merger complete and brings the two together under the same cover. PWV started publishing in 1980, while Wines & Vines has been covering the North American wine industry continuously since 1919. Wines & Vines' mission is to provide how-to articles about winemaking and grapegrowing, the most original and comprehensive industry news and timely market data. We serve diverse wine regions and emphasize coverage for the 8,048 small and medium-size wineries across the continent that our company has documented in our Directory/Buyer's Guide. (Another 51 wineries make 500,000 cases or more.) Meaty articles about topics as diverse as grapevine leaf spots, wine tartrate stability and the new book "Wine Grapes" fill this month's PWV section (pages 51-77). Possibly the most urgent and timely PWV article is the section's lead story about grapevine red blotchassociated virus (page 51), which explains the newly detected disease and how to identify it, including excellent photos from the USDA-ARS in California and Cornell University in New York. Speaking of photos, another article about grapevine problems uses more great photography to help growers and vineyard managers identify "Leaf Spots Not Caused by Insects or Disease" on page 68. Dr. Jim Wolpert of the University of California, Davis, and Fritz Westover of Texas A&M collaborated for this guide. Westover and Patty Skinkis of Oregon State University supplied the pictures. It's a pleasure to welcome Dr. Richard Smart, the New Zealand-based author of the classic "Sunlight Into Wine" and a well-traveled viticulture consultant. As a regular columnist for PWV he wrote a detailed review of "Wine Grapes" (page 75) by Jancis Robinson and her team. Smart shows how useful this new reference work will be for almost anyone in the wine industry. The section also features two articles that continue two different series from PWV—Patricia Howe of Cornell writes "Cold Stability of Wine" (page 55), and Dr. Alain Deloire, head of the National Grape & Wine Information Centre at Charles Sturt University in Australia, covers "Berry Ripening and Wine Aroma" (page 64). Dr. Eric T. Stafne of Mississippi State University rounds out the section (page 72) with his piece about the "Grape Community of Practice." Topics such as leaf spots, tartrate stability and the new book 'Wine Grapes' fill the PWV section. Practical archives online An additional benefit of the merger for subscribers is that for the first time PWV article archives will be available online. Starting now the articles from 2011, 2012 and winter 2013 are searchable at practicalwinerylibrary.com. The archive database will continue to grow as more issues are digitized. Subscribers simply use their email addresses to log in. Though PWV will cease publication as an independent entity, the founder and publisher, Don Neel, will stay in charge of the editorial content of the section. He will keep up his tradition of sourcing technically oriented, seasonally relevant, mostly peerreviewed articles from the international wine industry's leading researchers, winemakers and viticulturists. 10 W in es & V i ne s AP R I L 2 013 Oak alternatives and more PhDs Elsewhere in the issue, staff writer Andrew Adams and regular contributor Laurie Daniel each offer an article about how winemakers use oak products to their best advantage (pages 40 and 46). Adams also got inside Beaulieu Vineyard's winery-within-a-winery to share how BV makes its famed Georges de Latour Private Reserve. No room remains to detail the numerous articles from Dr. Cliff Ohmart, Dr. Charles G. Edwards, Dr. Andrew Reynolds and others, but I will mention that Dr. Richard Carey's second story about greenhouse tunnels for quality winegrapes (page 87) is eye-opening for grapegrowers in difficult climates. Once again, welcome to the new Wines & Vines with Practical Winery & Vineyard inside.