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Feature Article
Missouri vineyards are used to harsh weather but this year's late freeze did them in.
Spring Freeze Leads to Summer Squeeze
An early warm Spring followed by a devastating late freeze in Missouri has left wineries wondering where their grapes will come from this year.
by
Joe Pollack
May 30, 2007
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, wrote poet-songwriter Fran Landesman, not expecting that seasonal climate could cause more difficulties than seasonal sex appeal. Missouri proved it this spring with a March that was the third-warmest on record, bringing buds many weeks earlier 
Stone Hill Winery’s general manager, Jon Held, surveys the freeze damage to his vineyard and finds a nearly 100% loss. than usual. And then came the Easter weekend disaster. Three successive nights of 20-degree temperature - the worst cold snap in 118 years - destroyed the bulk of the state’s grape crop.
Stone Hill Winery’s general manager, Jon Held, surveys the freeze damage to his vineyard and finds a nearly 100% loss.
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