Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 6 · column 5 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
were not far enough along at the time of the below-freezing temperatures.
“It’s had varying effects in Rappahannock,” said John Delmare, proprietor of Rappahannock Cellars in Huntly. “We’ve lost about 10 to 15 percent of our chardonnay crop, maybe 5 to 10 percent of red varieties.”
Delmare said he can estimate damage based on how many primary buds on the vine were affected by the cold. But after the first bud dies, he said, the vine grows second and third buds that can also be fruitful some 25 to 50 percent of the time.
So those 10 percent losses could end up being only 5 percent losses if secondary buds are successful.
Delmare said grapes at vineyards south of Charlottesville were farther along and therefore more affected by the freeze than those in Rappahannock.
“The farther south you go the worse it gets,” he said.
That is a bit of a doubleedged sword for Rappahannock wineries, Delmare said.
“The industry here in the state is not so regionally isolated,” he explained. “Most of our fruit comes from the county here, but we also get fruit from other parts of the state.”
As Love said, growers and buyers will just have to “wait and see.”
E-mail the reporter at kallen@timespapers.com
80.5%