Winter Injury in the Northeast in 2014

I received the Appellation Cornell - News from Cornell's Viticulture and Enology Program, at the end of June and it had a very timely article written by Tim Martinson in Grapes 101 called Managing Winter-Injured Vines.
The July issue of Wines & Vines also contained an article written by Tony Wolf about Recovering from Cold Injury in Virginia. I read both of the articles with interest because of what we are seeing in our own vineyard.
From both articles, I learned that we are not out of the woods yet with the vines that are currently growing in our vineyard.

• We may still see collapse of some vines that have gone through bud break and begun to develop a canopy due to damage of the regenerative vascular cambium tissue
• We may see an increased incidence of crown gall due to trunk splitting

Both articles provided the following guidance:

• Avoid nitrogen fertilization for this season and consider sowing a cereal under the trellis to provide some competition and reduce shoot vigor
• Re-evaluate your training system and make decisions about what should be done differently based on plant survival patterns in the vineyard
• Keep existing plants healthy in order to produce fruitful buds next year
• Rethink varietal planting scheme and replant the block with a variety that is more cold hardy