Gingin and Mendoza, unravelling the mystery of these two related Chardonnay clones
Travel to Australia and New Zealand and you’ll hear extensive discussion about two clones of Chardonnay: Gingin and Mendoza. They
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Wine Science
In an important and brave move, UK supermarket Tesco releases a wine made from a disease-resistant grape variety called Floreal
UK supermarket Tesco has made a brave move. They have launched a wine from a disease-resistant hybrid variety called Floreal,
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Grape vines in the wild: what they looked like before domestication
I’m fascinated by wild vines. We are so used to seeing vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards that sometimes
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Organic spraying: a quick case study
While I was in the Dobbin vineyard in Niagara, Canada, a tractor went by with a spray recovery system. I
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Catching up with Plaimont, the super-cooperative focusing on recovering lost grape varieties in France’s southwest
Website: https://www.plaimont.com/en/ Plaimont have a thing about looking for disappeared (or nearly disappeared) grapes, and this tasting was a great
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Spigamonti, a new old grape in Valpolicella with distinctive features
Back in 2009 I did a tasting of some recovered grape varieties in Valpolicella. This is a region dominated by
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Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024
I’m just back from the Festival del Potatare, the second edition of the pruning festival organized by industry leading pruning
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Bad news from the Okanagan and other regions in BC, Canada: no grapes to be harvested in 2024
Some bad news from the Okanagan Valley in Canada, the country’s second largest wine region. This is a region that
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My science CV
After reading a recent book review that questioned my scientific credentials (I don’t think they were aware of the first
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Are pesticide levels in wine something we should be concerned about?
Advocacy group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) do some good work. We need independent bodies that campaign for food
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