Will wine grapes become Nevada’s new cash crop?
The Business Report of Northern Nevada profiles youthful
entrepreneurial Rick Halbardier and his wife, Kathy, owners of Tahoe Ridge Winery, Nevada’s only winery.
Turns out that you can’t grow just any kind of grape in Nevada. After intense work with Cornell University and the University of Minnesota, the consortium discovered interspecific wine grape varieties hardy to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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