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  • August 2011 Issue
  • Story by Melissa Hansen

    • Small nursery has depth of selection

    Jeff Sample tries to stay a step ahead in sourcing material for Washington industry.

    Jeff Sample has more than 70 grape selections of clones and varieties in his Terroir Nouveaux Nurseries in Sunnyside, Washington. Melissa Hansen Pinot Noir 106 is the same as UCD 29 (University of California, Davis), while Pinot Noir 71 is the same as the French 777. Malbec clone 12 is the cleaned-up version of Malbec 8. Tempranillo 06 was 01, but 01 had Rupestris stem pitting virus and has since been cleaned. Jeff Sample rattles off wine grape clone numbers (and their new numbers) like a walking, talking Wikipedia. And if Sample doesn’t know the details of a particular clone […]

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    Melissa Hansen
    Melissa Hansen is the research program director for the Washington State Wine Commission. Hansen previously was an associate editor at Good Fruit Grower from 1996 through 2015. Read her stories: Author Index
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