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“Our concern, as an industry organisation, is to help our members. We work with our noses and tasting every day is a necessity”, stressed Didier Fages.

Monday July 06 2020

Loss of smell is more crippling to the wine industry than was thought

The French winemakers’ organisation has potentially uncovered a can of worms, due to the coronavirus crisis. “We have been hearing
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Galdric Nogues, product manager for Lamothe Abiet's fermentation range, monitored the research in conjunction with the Asti viticulture and oenology research centre in Italy during the 2019 harvest.

Friday May 29 2020

A dash of gunflint to boost aroma in white wines

“Initially, our aim was to better characterise expression of our two thiol-revealing flagship yeasts in the Excellence range, TXL and (...)
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“Our charter prompts three types of reaction from winegrowers: “It gets on my nerves”, “I have things to hide” and “OK, we have to take the plunge, this is the way of the world”, commented Jacques Carroget on 3 February in Angers.

Thursday February 13 2020

Natural wines get definition and commitments

Defining and establishing a framework for natural wines is something of a tall order, but those behind the initiative hope to rapidly remove (...)
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This vintage, winemakers in southern France must also watch out for mouse taint.

Thursday December 05 2019

Mediterranean firms on the alert for contaminants

The disparate 2019 vintage has led to very different fermentation itineraries in French wineries, according to comments made during the Sitevi (...)
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The Smart Green and Classic Green stoppers now have a zero carbon footprint.

Wednesday December 04 2019

Nomacorc announces the release of grape-based stoppers in 2020

“We plan to launch a Nomacorc stopper made from grape pomace in 2020”, said Olav Aagaard, vice-president of Vinventions' R&D (...)
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“Most of the levels are low, but smoke taint can progress”, warned Vincent Bouazza.

Thursday September 19 2019

France faces risk of smoke taint

After the many forest fires over the summer, specialists have sent out a word of warning for the harvest period in the vineyards of southern (...)
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The onset of Brett on batches of fermenting 2018 wine occurred very early on in the year and was kept under wraps in Bordeaux.

Monday April 08 2019

2018 En Primeur: the ideal wine profile… including for Brett

The 2018 vintage in Bordeaux, which miraculously survived out in the vineyard, displays the kind of ripeness and balance that should have (...)
Thursday January 10 2019 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
Tank manufacturers are focusing on visual appeal and personalisation and not presenting any major winemaking developments.

Haute-couture for wine tanks

“Our tanks are designed to become pieces of family furniture”, claims Laurent Guillemain, sales director for equipment manufacturer (...)
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Wednesday November 28 2018 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
Inspired by late 19th century industry, the GalileOak’s chassis highlights the decorative intentions for the tank.

Seguin Moreau turns wood into spherical barrels

He may have lost track of the number of photos taken by visitors to the Vinitech show, but Nicolas Mälher-Besse, managing director of Seguin (...)
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Thursday June 21 2018 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
“A little noble rot in suspension, the impurities slowly fall. This wine is 23 years old. Wine is all about soil. This one is slightly gravelly, it’s a Médoc. Wine is also about sunshine. This wine enjoyed an excellent South-West aspect on a good sloping hillside. It’s a Saint-Julien. 1953 Château Léoville Las Cazes!” proclaimed famous French actor Louis de Funès in one of the most famous blind tastings.

How blind tasting does not make recognising a wine easier, at least immediately

“Blind tasting is not a myth. Trained tasters get better results than random responses” claimed researchers Qian Janice Wang and (...)
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Monday June 11 2018 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
The use of light to 'treat' vines with fungal diseases was quickly mentioned. For Michel Valade, “the technique is attractive in the laboratory, but transitioning to vineyards is likely to be very challenging...”

Striking lucky with light

“Hold an aperitif in the sun and you’ll get guaranteed light strike after three minutes!” quipped Michel Valade, head of (...)
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Friday February 16 2018 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
Bitterness is a double-edged flavour.

How the brain copes with bitterness

According to neurobiologist Gabriel Lepousez, 700 molecules have now been listed as responsible for bitterness and include peptides, esters, (...)
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Tuesday February 13 2018 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
There are similarities between Spanish (Jerez and Manzanilla), French (mainly in Jura...), Hungarian (Tokay) and Italian wines (particularly in Sardinia).

Wines with a flor

“Wines with a veil of flor yeast are the opposite to wines that are topped up during ageing”, summed up oenologist Jocelyn Broncard, (...)
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Thursday December 14 2017 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

A laser for detecting Brett in casks

During the maturation phase, the laser probe “will not replace laboratory analyses [to detect Brettanomyces] but clearly, a simple tool, (...)
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Tuesday October 03 2017 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

Château Dauzac proud to go for vegan certification

“Displaying vegan certification is not for commercial or mercantile purposes but part of a strategy that is respectful of the environment (...)
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Wednesday July 19 2017 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

Thesis by Liming Zeng wins Amorim award

The Chinese researcher who learnt French to study wine chemistry in Bordeaux, Liming Zeng, has won the 25th Académie Amorim award worth 5,000 (...)
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Friday November 04 2016 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

OIV differentiates between additives and processing aids

At its 14th Annual General Assembly in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine adopted no fewer than sixteen (...)
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Wednesday October 07 2015 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

Michel Rolland: “Bordeaux has all the components of a very good vintage”

Michel Rolland (...)
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Thursday July 10 2014 - Winemaking by Vitisphere

Packaging in bag-in-box: precautions and procedures to prevent oxydation of Loire Valley wines

  "The BIB’s main shortcoming is its permeability to oxygen during the packaging process and conservation.  It is (...)
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Thursday May 15 2014 - Business by Vitisphere

Chinese wines: Ningxia Xixia King seeks advice from Bordeaux consultants in order to triple production

  The Ningxia Xixia King Winery, directed by Hong Wang, is looking to strengthen its market position in China by developing both (...)
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