It's nail biting time for area grape growers and vintners as a cold snap continues in the region.
Jim Trezise, president of the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, says vintners have a cause for concern when temperatures reach 10-below or lower, and some varieties of grape are vulnerable at 5-below.
He says people are keeping an eye on the whether and examining buds for damage.
But so far, he says, while they're nervous, they're not panicking.
Trezise adds it can take several months to measure the damage from the winter, so they likely won't know until the fall harvest how the cold weather has impacted the crop.
Last year's deep freezes had many experts convinced the grape crop would be reduced by up to half.
But that didn't happen and there was a large crop, just 9 percent below the record high crop of the year before.