Wine goes Hybrid...Any 'Traminette' in Your Cellar?

Even though Al Gore just got the Nobel Prize, he is not the one who invented Traminette. Bruce Reisch of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell University)in Geneva (New York) is the man behind it. Jim Clarke looks at why Winemakers look to hardy hybrids for solutions to environmental challenges (SF Chronicle, October 12).