CONTEXT Regardless of irrigation regime, canopy size can affect yield and berry quality attributes particularly under semiarid conditions. It may sound counterintuitive at first …
Managing vine water deficit with canopy height
Category: Harvest
ETS Laboratories smoke taint research
Perhaps the single most impactful and devastating series of events from the 2017 Napa vintage were October’s wine country fires. As the final presenter of …
Phenolic Extraction by Federico Casassa
We are wrapping up the summary of the 2017 Vintage report with the last session focussing on Phenolic extraction presented by Federico Casassa. Overview of …
A Review of the 2017 Napa Vintage Report by Thibaut Scholasch
Throughout the Vintage Report, Thibaut Scholasch, PhD, co-Founder and VP of Research and Development at Fruition Sciences, highlighted data trends during the 2017 growing season …
Fruit Color Affects Wine Composition
What is the relationship between fruit color and wine color concentration? A strong, positive relationship exists between anthocyanin (i.e. color) concentration in grape and in wine …
Why berry sugar monitoring is not just for alcohol?
In this blog we discuss why berry sugar monitoring is important beyond sugar concentration. Changes in sugar accumulation reflect other chemical changes As berries accumulate sugars, …
Harvest under dry climates: High Sugar vs. High Color.
In this blog we discuss why adapting harvest date to a warming environment is challenging …and why you may not have to trade off sugar concentration to …
Smoke flavors : it’s not only about volatile phenols
More technical questions regarding volatile phenols management have been asked as the last grapes from 2017 get harvested in Northern California. In this blog post …
Smoke and Grape – the Smoke Taint Repercussions
We received a large number of requests asking for practical information and scientific articles on making wine with smoke tainted grapes. Considering the devastation caused by northern California fires, we decided …
Bioclimatic indices of the ripening period (2) : Thermal conditions at night
The Cool Night Index The Cool Night Index was created to study nocturnal conditions of grapes ripening according to the different wine-making regions (Tonietto, 1999 …