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JANUARY — UNIFIED WINE & GRAPE SYMPOSIUM ISSUE GRAPEGROWING DEPARTMENTS Wine in the Show Me State: the Consumer Dichotomy 90 Contributors 4 Editor's Letter 10 Economic Picture Bright for Wineries. By Jim Gordon Missouri winemakers say they want to make dry vinifera, but sweet wines are still popular. Watching Over the Vines at Livermore's Wente 94 Sensors, software and a wireless network encourage efficiency and collaboration. Wine Industry Metrics 12 Off-Premise Sales Grow 7%; High-Priced Flash Offers. Top Stories 18 Year of Northwest Investment; California's Water Challenges; Wine Recruiting Hints at Booming 2014; Wine Fraud. 90 102 News Headlines 18 Northwest Cold Damage; Oregon Branded Bottles; Museum Celebrates Wine Families; Wine Trends at SSU Forum; DtC Expert: Cater Outreach to Customer; Red Blotch Update; Trellis Experiment; Cave Project Complete; Polyphenol Analysis. Plus News Bytes and Briefs. SALES & MARKETING Best in Show: Entering Wine for Competitive Judging 98 Winery and contest insiders discuss merits and drawbacks of submitting wine for competition. Product News 34 Inquiring Winemaker 36 packaging Bleeding-Edge Packaging Tests the Market 102 Winemakers Rely on Living Equipment. By Tim Patterson 108 Grounded Grapegrowing 42 A Tale of Two Watersheds. By Glenn McGourty Newly public winery, Truett Hurst, vies for attention with assertive design choices. Calendar 144 Advertisers' Index 146 WINE EAST IN WINES & VINES VINTAGE 2013 Harvest Report: West Coast Has Another Stellar Year 108 News from Eastern North America 133 Penn State Viticulturist; EWE Bigger and Better in 2014. Grapegrowers on the East Coast experience a dry harvest; meanwhile, Texas and Colorado vineyards are severely damaged by cold. NORTHWEST Vitis Hybrids: History and Current Status 135 Hybrid cultivars were key to the rapid changes in eastern and central vineyards in the 1970s. 8 W in es & V i ne s JANUARY 20 14 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 154 EAST REGIONS FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE COVERING NORTH AMERICA See us at Unified booth #1505-15074