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10 WINES&VINES January 2017 A member of Wine Communications Group Inc. President & Publisher Chet Klingensmith Chairman Hugh Tietjen Publishing Consultant Ken Koppel Associate Publisher Tina Vierra Publishing Assistant Tiffany Maxwell EDITORIAL Editor Jim Gordon Managing Editor Kate Lavin Senior Editor Andrew Adams Senior Correspondent Paul Franson Contributing Editor Jane Firstenfeld Northwest Correspondent Peter Mitham Columnists Grapegrowing: Cliff Ohmart and Glenn T. McGourty Contributing Writers Laurie Daniel, Richard Smart, Richard Carey, Chris Stamp, Andrew Reynolds, Craig Root, Ray Pompilio, Andy Starr, Fritz Westover Practical Winery & Vineyard (PWV) Editor Don Neel Wine East Editor Linda Jones McKee DESIGN & PRODUCTION Graphic Designer Rebecca Arnn DATABASE DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Vice President—Data Management Lynne Skinner Project Manager Liesl Stevenson Database & Web Development James Rust, Peter Scarborough EDITOR'S LETTER JANUARY IS A GREAT MONTH for thinking about the future, and this issue of Wines & Vines has plenty of food for your thoughts. It's traditionally our biggest issue of the year, and it is timed for distribution at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, Calif., running Jan. 24-26. That event also makes a great springboard for planning what to do in the winery, the office and the vineyard in 2017. Read managing editor Kate Lavin's preview of the symposium, beginning on page 96. New cellar equipment is going to be on a lot of people's minds this month. Consider Andy Starr's column (page 38) to get mentally prepared for any equipment purchases you may be pondering for this year. As a former winemaker who also earned an MBA degree, Starr has a knack for laying out plans. Not all of us do, but as he explains with a little humor in the column, "It's OK to plan." A piece of equipment that's murky for many winemak- ers is the reverse osmosis machine. But don't worry, a pioneer in adapting this membrane filtration technology to wine production, long-time contributor Clark Smith, lays it all out for you beginning on page 58. He explains what reverse osmosis is, what it's useful for and how to select a unit for your needs. Senior editor Andrew Adams' Technical Spotlight article (page 72) on the new Sugarloaf Crush custom winery in Sonoma County describes the rush to open the facility in time for the 2016 harvest. It was one of those harrowing, last-minute installations of equipment just in time to crush fruit. But the job got done. All those small fermentors on the cover of this issue were installed, and Sugarloaf was in business. Laurie Daniel has been writing the Wines & Vines interviews for 10 years now, and this issue has a double dose of them. She questions San Francisco Bay Area winery architect Jeff Goodwin about trends in materials and construction methods related to wineries (page 86) and also interviews co-owner and winemaker Jared Brandt of Donkey & Goat winery in Berkeley, Calif., about why and how he ferments whites on their skins and reds on their stems (page 104), among other things. Grapegrowing content in this issue includes one great example of vineyard innovation in Lompoc, Calif., "The Radical Reshaping of Babcock Vineyards" by Tama Takahashi (page 134). It also includes in the Wine East section a great example of research that has very practical applications: Imed Dami's report about the freezing tolerance of Vitis vinifera cultivars in eastern North America (page 164). Finally, since it's important to have a good record of the past in order to make better plans for the future, our Vintage Report 2016 (page 117) recaps the most recent growing season and harvest in wine regions from the West Coast to the east. Adams wrote the intro to this extensive report, and 23 well-informed cor- respondents (mostly extension advisors) filled in the particulars from their regions. There's much more in the issue, too, but we've run out space. If you're attending the Unified Symposium, we warmly invite you to visit our team at booths 428, 430 and 441 to say hi and give us your feedback about how we can serve you better. On behalf of everyone at Wines & Vines, we wish you a happy and well-planned New Year. —Jim Gordon New cellar equipment is going to be on a lot of people's minds this month. CONTACT US SUBSCRIPTIONS Email: subs@winesandvines.com Online: winesandvines.com/subscribe Phone: (866) 453-9701 EDITORIAL Email: edit@winesandvines.com MAIL 65 Mitchell Blvd., Suite A San Rafael, CA 94903 CONNECT WITH US facebook.com/WinesandVines twitter.com/WinesandVines youtube.com/WinesandVines1919 Equipped for the Future: Insights for 2017