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April's Contributors I Patricia Howe have not been accepted, but urges winemakers and labs at the very least to be more precise in their communications. Kerry Kirkham W he Wine East section carries the second half of a two-part article by Wilcox and Austin about a particularly timely topic for spring: vineyard disease prevention (see page 47). Wilcox, right, is a professor in the Depart- ment of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University's New York State T Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N.Y. Austin is a gradu- ate student in the same department. Glenn McGourty W est Coast grapegrowers also need to be on their toes in the spring. Bi-monthly columnist Glenn McGourty advises this month in Grounded Grapegrowing (see page 60) that taking the proper steps at the proper times during the first 80-90 days of the growing season is critical. Good timing sets the vines up for a healthy summer and successful harvest, writes McGourty, a University of California winegrowing advisor. April's Cover Pre-measured sticks, cubes and chips from oak barrel alternative sample kits soak in 750ml bottles, the standard size for bench-top trials. Read how vintners use these trials to strengthen their wine- making visions on page 30. Photo by Avis Mandel. You can see more of her work at: avismandel.com. 4 Wines & Vines APRiL 201 1 and fining agents to their musts and wines with careful precision, too many wine- makers merely guesstimate when they add barrel alternatives. Kirkham, Wines & Vines' technical editor, explains in our cover story (see page 30) the whys and hows of doing hile winemakers add SO2 bench-top trials with oak products before committing to them for production-scale use. Wayne Wilcox & Craig Austin , tartaric acid f conflicting reporting units for lab results occasionally still stump Patricia Howe, a wine lab manager with 30 years of experience in the industry, that means a problem exists. In her Viewpoint column (see page 66), Howe acknowledges that universal standards for measures of titratable acidity, VA, SO2 , etc. A Member of Wine Communications Group Inc. EDITORIAL Editor Jim Gordon Production Editor Kate Lavin Technical Editor Kerry Kirkham Contributing Editor Jane Firstenfeld Senior Correspondent Paul Franson Northwest Correspondent Peter Mitham Winemaking: Tim Patterson, Clark Smith Grapegrowing: Cliff Ohmart, Glenn T. McGourty Columnists Editors: Hudson Cattell, Linda Jones McKee; Writer: Richard Carey Contributing Writers Wine East Laurie Daniel, Suzanne Gannon, Jamie Goode, Mike Lynch, Thomas Ulrich President & Publisher Chet Klingensmith PUBLISHING Hugh Tietjen Chairman Publishing Consultant Ken Koppel WEST: Jacques Brix, Vice President & Director of Sales (707) 473-0244, jbrix@winesandvines.com ADvERTISING MIDWEST: Hooper Jones Associates Inc. (847) 486-1021, hooperhja@aol.com (215) 794-3442, marshatabb@comcast.net EAST: Marsha Tabb INTERNATIONAL: Dave Bayard (973) 822-9275, dave@bayard.com Administrative Coordinator Stephanie Papadakis Advertising Coordinator Christina Ballinger ADMINISTRATION CIRCULATION & DATABASE DEvELOPMENT Database Manager Lynne Skinner Circulation Manager Emilee Schumer Circulation Assistant Alia Vander Lind Research Assistant Allison Bowser Web Developer James Rust WEBSITE Design & Production Manager Bridget Williams DESIGN & PRODUCTION Wines & Vines, ISSN 043-583X, a member of Wine Communications Group, Sonoma, CA, is published monthly. Periodicals postage paid at San Rafael and at additional mailing offices. Publishing Information Volume 92, Number 4 (866) 453-9704 • subs@winesandvines.com • www.winesandvines.com Subscription Rates Wines & Vines, 1800 Lincoln Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901-1298 Customer Service Send address changes to our publication office: Postmaster U.S., $38.00; Canada/Mexico, $48.00 All other countries, $85.00 (for airmail add $85.00) Reproduction in whole or part without permission is prohibited. Wines & Vines does not assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or materials. Contributors are responsible for the proper release of proprietary and/or classified information. Wines & Vines is distributed through an audited circulation. Deborah Roberti Ad Prepress