http://www.organicfoodexperience.com/wp-content/ uploads/2011/01/certified-organic.jpg Organic foods, once only spotted in health food stores, are becoming increasingly popular and are found all over the grocery store aisles. While it is unclear whether or not organic foods are higher in nutritional content than more…
Category: Viticulture
The Effect of Cover Crops on Aromatic Quality of Wine: Which Works Best?
The use of cover crops in a vineyard has been well studied, and is often employed in vineyards around the world. Basically, cover crops are plants (usually grasses) sown in between the rows of vines, which are most often used…
Applying Oak Extracts to Grape Vines: A Novel Approach to Producing Oak-Style Wines?
For today’s post, we will set out to examine a paper published in March of this year in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry regarding the aroma of wine and possible viticulture techniques for altering aroma of varietal wines.…
Does Smoke Exposure to Grape Vines Affect the Aroma of Wine?
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Images/Graphics/ Feature/NS_fires2_200.jpg Wild fires are a relatively frequent occurrence during hot and dry spells, and tend to occur with greater frequency in some parts of the world compared to others. Parts of Australia and the western United States, among others,…