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Botrytis cinerea
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Botrytis cinerea (from the latin for "Grapes like ashes") or Botrytis, is a grey fungus that affects wine grapes. It is also called Botrytis bunch rot.

 


Botrytis cinerea see noble rot.
Botrytis cinerea is a fungus that affects wine grapes. Under humid climate conditions, Botrytis cinerea attacks grapes on the vines, leaving them shrivelled and dehydrated.

Botrytis cinerea
A mold that thrives on certain grapes, and contributes to the characteristic honeyed sweetness of Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.

Botrytis Cinerea: A mold that pierces grape skins, causing dehydration. Also called noble rot.
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Bouquet: The odors in wines from fermentation, processing, and aging, especially those that develop after bottling.

Botrytis cinerea
A mold that attacks certain grapes, producing honeyed sweet wines like Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.
Bouquet
The complex of aromas that develops with age in fine wines; young wines have aroma, not bouquet.

Botrytis cinerea
The fungus that attacks the grape skins under specific climatic conditions (usually alternating periods of moisture and sunny weather). It causes the grape to become superconcentrated because it causes a natural dehydration.

Botrytis cinerea
"Noble Rot." A mold that attacks certain grapes, drying them out like raisins and producing intensely honeyed flavors in wines such as Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.

Botrytis cinerea - See Noble rot.
Bottle shock - Also known as bottle-sickness, a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors.

Botrytis Cinerea. "Noble rot" fungus responsible for making some great dessert wines in Sauternes and elsewhere by shriveling grapes and concentrating juice.

Botrytis cinerea
The cause of Noble Rot, Botrytis cinerea is a fungus which, under suitable conditions, attacks grapes on the vines, leaving them shrivelled and dehydrated.

Botrytis Cinerea: A beneficial mold that causes grapes to shrivel and sugars to concentrate, resulting in sweet, unctuous wines; common botrytis wines include Sauternes, Tokay and German beerenauslese.

Botrytis Cinerea: Called the "Noble Rot." A beneficial mold or fungus that attacks grapes under certain climatic conditions and causes them to shrivel, deeply concentrating the flavors, sugar and acid.

Botrytis cinerea: A parasitic fungus, which, if present in a vineyard, can attack ripe grapes, removing water and concentrating sugar and flavour components. It helps to make great sweet white wines.

Botrytis cinerea: Latin name for one of many molds which attacks grapes on the vine. Under the proper conditions and at the proper time, this mold will often have a beneficial affect upon the resulting wine's quality.

Botrytis cinerea
A mould produced in very particular conditions of temperature and humidity that pierces grape skins, causing dehydration. Also known as "noble rot."

Botrytised
Sweet wines made from grapes affected by botrytis cinera.

Botrytis cinerea (Noble rot):A mold that concentrates the sugar and flavor of grapes.
Bouquet: The various fragrances noted by small, created by the development of wine from the fermentation and aging process, whether in barrel or bottle.

Botrytis cinerea: Scientific name for a type of grape mould that under the right climatic conditions concentrates grape sugars, resulting in sweet white wines with complex 'dried apricot' like flavours and luscious texture.

Botrytis cinerea
"Botrytis" or "noble rot" is a fungus that attacks grapes under certain temperature and humidity conditions. The fungus extracts moisture from the grape causing it to shrivel and increase its relative sugar content.

Botrytis Cinerea:Also known as "noble rot," it is a beneficial mold that grows on ripe wine grapes in the vineyard under specific climatic conditions.

"Botrytis Cinerea", a mold or fungus that attacks grapes in humid climate conditions, causing the concentration of sugar and acid content by making grapes at a certain level of maturity shrivel.

[edit] Botrytis cinerea See Noble rot.
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[edit] Bottle A bottle is a small container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth.

A term for Botrytis Cinerea. The special mold that is responsible for many of the world's greatest dessert wines. It creates micro lesions in the skin of the grape, and then removes the water from inside the grape.

Botrytis cinerea is a fungal disease that can blight many species of plants, including flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Depending upon weather conditions, Botrytis can take one of two forms in grapes, one as destroyer, the other as enhancer.

ausbruchSweet Austrian wine made from overripe, medium-shriveled grapes affected by Botrytis cinerea. ausleseA term used in Germany to indicate wines grapes of very high degree of ripeness-literally, selected.

Botrytis cinerea/Noble rot
A fungus that causes results in shriveled, concentrated grapes. It has been adapted as a desireable condition for wines such as French Sauternes, German Trockenbeerenauslese, and Hungarian Tokaji.
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Botrytis cinerea fungus which causes gray rot in grapes and stimulates production of resveratrol. Bourgogne French for "Burgundy" (wine-producing region in central/eastern France). Brix a method of measuring sugar in wine.

Often, the grapes have started to over-ripen, becoming affected by the desirable mould botrytis cinerea or noble rot (edelfaule in German). They are hand-picked and then pressed separately from other grapes. The wine made from these grapes is sweet.

The production of wines in these two areas is almost exclusively about sweet wines produced with grapes affected by noble rot, Botrytis Cinerea, renowned and famous everywhere in the world.

Scientific name Botrytis cinerea. If it attacks unripe or damaged grapes, it is a disaster. But this particular cloud has a silver lining.

BOTRYTIS CINEREA
Name of a mushroom involving the rot of the grapes. Generally very harmful, it can under certain climatic conditions produce a concentration of the grapes which forms the basis for making of the liqueur-like white wines.
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Noble Rot is a fungal infection caused by Botrytis Cinerea. Noble Rot in essence sucks water from affected grapes, producing shriveled, moldy grapes that turn your stomach to look at, and lead to some of the world's best dessert wines, ...

Botrytis: Short for Botrytis Cinerea, a fungus that grows naturally on the skins of certain grapes as they ripen on the vine under specific autumn conditions.

Rot - Caused by a mould called Botrytis cinerea, the destructive 'grey rot' attacks the grape bunches and destroys them. However, in certain circumstances, rather than ruining the grapes, the Botrytis mould can cause 'noble rot'.

These wines are produced from overripe Semillon grapes which have been affected by botrytis cinerea and are hand-picked as ready.

Also called "noble rot," Botrytis cinerea is a beneficial mold that, in just the right warm, humid circumstances, will begin to grow on the outside of grapes. As the mold sucks water from the grapes, they shrivel.

Botrytis A benevolent fungus, Botrytis cinerea, that grows on grapes in humid conditions, shrivelling the skins and concentrating the flavour. Responsible for Noble Late Harvest, Pourriture Noble in French, Edelfaule in German, Muffa in Italian.

In Germany, these sweet wines-which are usually affected by Botrytis Cinerea, graded in ascending order of sweetness as Auslese, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese.

Noble Rot - A fungal infection caused by Botrytis cinerea. It is an essential ingredient in Sauternes, Tokay and other sweet wines of Germany and Austria. Under the wrong conditions the result of infection is Grey Rot.
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The fungus botrytis cinerea attacks ripe grapes, causing them to shrivel and become concentrated and sweet. The juice of grapes affected with this "noble rot" is used to make some of the world's great sweet wines, including Sauternes ...

Furmint grapes have a thin skin which makes them susceptible to Botrytis Cinerea or Noble Rot, which causes the famous shrivelled Aszŭ berries with their concentrated sugars and intense flavours.

Noble Rot. Common name for Botrytis cinerea, the famous fungus of more than a few fabulous dessert wines.

During the drying process for the production of Amarone and Recioto, is often subject to the attack of Botrytis cinerea, because of the compactness of the clusters.

See also: Grape, Botrytis, Wine, Sweet, Region