March 5–6, 2025
Hampton Inn at the University of Missouri, Columbia
The 9th annual Show Me Grape and Wine Conference was held Wednesday, March 5, through Thursday, March 6, 2025. The Beginner Grape School was Friday, March 7, 2025.
The Show Me Grape and Wine Conference and Beginner Grape School are supported by the Missouri Wine and Grape Board and University of Missouri Extension.
Grape and Wine Conference and Symposium
Conference Speakers and Presentations:
Uncorking the Industry: Updates, Trends, and Opportunities for Missouri Wineries
Jim Anderson, Executive Director Missouri Wine and Grape Board and Annette Alden, Marketing Director Missouri Wine and Grape Board
Through the Grapevine: Developing Vitis x Muscadinia Wine Hybrids for Enhanced Disease Resistance and Quality
Renee Threlfall1 and Margaret Worthington2, 1Food Science Department and 2Horticulture Department, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Updates from GWI
Dean Volenberg, Viticulture Extension Leader Grape and Wine Institute-University of Missouri
Updates from Missouri Vintners Association
Parker Puchta, Missouri Vintners Association President
Updates from Missouri Grape Growers Association
Jed Mathany, President Missouri Grape Growers Association – Lake Ozark, Missouri
Disease Management Updates: Focus on Powdery Mildew
Dean Volenberg, Viticulture Extension Leader Grape and Wine Institute-University of Missouri
A WISE Choice for Wineries and Consumers-The New Missouri Wine Quality Assurance Program
Stephan Sommer, Enology Extension Leader, Grape and Wine Institute -University of Missouri
How the Iowa State University Wine Came To Be: Challenges and Successes
Erin Norton, Director – Midwest Grape and Wine Industry Institute @ Iowa State University
A Collective View of the Missouri Wine Industry-Our Past-Our Present Status-and Our Future Together
Thomas Fuchs, General Manager, HFOC Augusta Area Wineries
Developing New Grape Cultivars and New Methods for Detecting Grapevine Pathogens
Wenping Qiu, Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO
Great Taste of Missouri Wine Event
Symposium Speakers and Presentations:
Prevalence of Grapevine Vein Clearing Virus in Missouri Vineyards
Melanie Carraher, Dean Volenberg, and Jim Schoelz, Grape and Wine Institute-University of Missouri and Division on Plant Science and Technology-University of Missouri
Discovery of a Novel Locus Associated with Grapevine Powdery Mildew Susceptibility
Achyut Duwadi1, Surya Sapkota3,5, Cheng Zou4, Li-Ling Chen1,2, Lance Cadle-Davidson5 and Chin-Feng Hwang1,2*, 1Plant Science Graduate Program, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, 2State Fruit Experiment Station, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711, 3USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, VW 25430, 4Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, 5USDA-ARS Grape Genetics Research Unit, Geneva, NY 14456
The Mystery of Microecology: Understanding the Ecological Relationship between Allorhizobium vitis and Missouri Native Grapevines
Hunter White, Sylvia Petersen, and Wenping Qiu, Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, the W. H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA
Examining Pre-Prohibition Grape Cultivars for Vineyard and Wine Production Viability
Nathan Held, Stone Hill Winery
Identification of a Stable QTL for Juice Color in Vitis Interspecific Hybrid ‘Chambourcin’ – Based Population
Qiuni Yang1*, Li-Ling Chen1,2, Chin-Feng Hwang1,2, 1Plant Science Graduate Program, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, 2State Fruit Experiment Station, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
Techniques to Study the Macromolecular-Pigment Interaction in Wine
Olivia Burken and Dr. Stephan Sommer, Grape and Wine Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia, 223 Eckles Hall, Columbia, MO 65211
Microbial Communities in Spotted Wing Drosophila and Grapes: Insights into Host-Microbiome Interaction
Rishi Bhandari, Zoe Wills, Joe Ringbauer, and David Kang, USDA ARS, Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory
Exploring Phenomic Prediction to Enhance Grapevine Breeding
Danielle Hopkins1*, Matthew Rubin2, and Allison Miler,1,2, 1Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Beginner Grape School
March 7, 2025
Instructors:
Dean Volenberg, Viticulture Extension Leader and
Stephan Sommer, Enology Extension Leader
Topics
- Markets and Costs of Establishment
- Winemaking for Grape Growers I
- Winemaking for Grape Growers II
- Site Selection and Successful Vineyard Establishment
- Grape Insect Pests and Management
- Grape Diseases and Management
- Managing non-bearing grapevines
- Managing bearing grapevines
- Q & A