A mid-May cold snap led to some buds freezing solid, right on the vine, in parts of Northeast Ohio’s Grand River Valley this week.
That’s bad news for some local wine-makers; those tiny frozen grapes posed a big problem for Hundley Cellars, located in Harpersfield Township in Geneva. Co-founder and co-owner Tracy Hundley Pringle says she estimated that the frost might have caused a 40% mortality rate of grapes on the vine for the season. The plants won’t die, but the year's grape yield will be drastically affected.
“When you’re a small producer, that’s a big deal,” Hundley Pringle says. “That could be up to a $20,000 impact.”
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📷 Courtesy Tracy Hundley Pringle
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