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The science of good wine


If lay a solid foundation, you will know how to find high-quality wine.

What makes a good wine ... good? Understanding the processes associated with the creation of good wine will help you identify excellent wine based on your own taste. No matter whether you are a collector or a novice in the world of wine, if you lay a solid foundation, you will know how to find high quality wine (regardless of price).

So what exactly makes a good wine ... good?

There are four fundamental components that essentially summarize good wine:

  • excellent grapes

  • excellent wine

  • long-Term vision

  • Art

  • Grapes and wine

Probably no one who can deny that we need high-quality ingredients and great skills for making extremely dry (imagine Sukiyabashi Jiro in the film "Jiro dreams of sushi"); It is easier to accept that the same goes for excellent wine.

long-Term vision

There are many exciting new wineries and winemakers, but the really good ones among them have one thing in common: they think big. At the moment the founder of a winery thought that it may continue to exist after his death, he is already thinking differently about how you will develop your brand - and ultimately how to make wine.

Art

There indefinable "magic factor" in good wine, which is difficult to be measured and reported in a scientific way. Art is also a very personal choice that depends really primarily from the eyes of the beholder. Naturally, the more enlightened you in the relevant art, the more complex / nuanced to taste you. Winemakers like artists adhere to different ideologies and these core competencies are reflected in the wine.

Growing grapes and wine of excellent wine

As far as art is a personal choice, we will focus on measurable aspects (grapes and wine) and will leave you to explore for yourself the fun part of the demand for art in the wine.

When you summarize the many processes associated with the cultivation of excellent grapes, it actually has two important areas to consider: Terroir: terroir influence of nature on the cultivation of grapes and include climate, soil and other aspects related to the natural environment. Vintage: It includes the choices that people make in order to facilitate the cultivation of grapes in one year / vintage / vintage (pruning, irrigation, tillage, pest control, time of harvest, etc.).

Terroir

The word "terroir" can mean many things to different wine experts, so for the sake of simplicity define terroir as a summary of climate, soil and flora in the region.

People talk a lot about soils and climate, when it comes to wine, but there is a third component that scientists are just beginning to understand better: the flora.

What's flora?

The flora includes all living plants / mushrooms in a given area. It contains everything - trees, sagebrush, grasses and flowers, until microorganisms such as yeast, yeast and bacteria.

Climate

The climate includes not only what is happening with the weather in large regional scale, but also refers to small differences in specific locations. There are three levels of detail that can be seen in change: microclimate

  • Mezoklimat

  • microclimate

  • microclimate

  • Research of Dr. Gregory Jones, environmental specialists at the University of Southern Oregon know that different grape varieties adapted to different microclimate.

Simply put, makroklimatat was associated with mean temperature and angle of solar illumination on a particular region during the growing season of the vineyards. Certain species are more suitable for a particular type of climate (for example Pinot Gris for cold climates or Sangiovese for warmer climates). On the basis that identify larger areas (like Napa Valley) that are better suited for certain wine varieties based on their average seasonal climate.

Mezoklimat

If you dig to step down from the microclimate, you can notice subtle differences between wines from different vineyards in the same region. Mezoklimatat refers to climatic differences in the common region, such as the distance from the river (where this can be a cold and foggy morning), or a location on a high slope. The influence of mezoklimata is somewhat reason Napa Valley is divided into 16 different vitikulturni sub-regions.

Here are some basic questions to ask yourself regarding mezoklimata Vineyard: Whether vineyards are on a slope? Whether vineyards in the valley? Whether vineyards are near large water area (lake, ocean, river)? What are facing vineyards? microclimate

Finally, microclimate descends down to the level of specific vine. Maybe there is a part of the vineyard, which is in the shade in certain parts of the day or there is air flow in one part of the vineyard, but not in another. The microclimate is what affects single vine and determines whether it will produce quality grapes.

Technology: In northern Italy building in Trentino, called Cavit, has developed a regional monitoring system, called PICA. The system monitors the changes and gives growers (via telephone messages) immediate opportunities to influence and manage the cultivation of vineyards. So far the company PICA is a tool, but when growers develop more advanced technologies will see active farming based on micro-climates.


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