Coloradoan: While the area is usually not subject to the quick temperature swings more common on the Front Range, an early season freeze along the Western Slope decimated the area’s grape crops in 2020, and it may take years for the area’s vines to recover, said Caspari, who works out of CSU’s Western Colorado Research Center in Grand Junction and coordinates research of different grape cultivars at CSU’s small test vineyard in south Fort Collins.

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