Vine pull schemes
From EncycloWine
Vine pull schemes are programs whereby grape growers receive a financial incentive to pull up their grape vines, a process known as arrachage in French.
Once Upon A Vine
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Phylloxera Grape Vine Louse
Until the 1860s, the world of wine was growing at a fantastic rate.
A Good Root: Grape Vine Rootstocks and Their Effect on Wine Quality
There is a saying that has become a bit of a cliché that 'wine quality is created in the vineyard'.
Vine
The name of the plant that produces the grape.
Vinegar
Should a wine taste of vinegar, then it has become infected. Acetic acid has been produced instead of alcohol. The wine cannot be salvaged and must be discarded.
Vine (vitis vinifera)
The plant on which grapes grow.
Vineyard
Land on which cultivation of the grape (viticulture) is implemented for wine making purposes.
Vine: The main stem from which the grapes grow.
Vinifera: The family of European wine grapes from which the world's finest wines are made.
Vinification: The art of transforming grapes into wine ...
Vine - A plant on which grapes grow.
Vinegar - A sour-tasting, highly acidic, liquid made from the oxidation of ethanol in wine, cider, beer, fermented fruit juice, or nearly any other liquid containing alcohol.
Vine: The main stem of the vine, from which the shoots grow.
Vin Gris: (France) A dry, pale blush wine produced from red grapes.
Vinho de mesa: (Portugal) table wine.
The vine
The vine (Vitis vinifera, Linn.), a plant belonging to the Ampelidaceae family has as distinctive characteristics, a five-toothed calyx, five petals, often attached at the top and detaching like a cap, five stamens and a monocular berry.
Old Vine
You'll often find the term 'old vine' (in French 'vieilles vignes') on the label of a wine; it's becoming an increasingly popular marketing term.
Vine Management
The primary objective of vine (canopy) management is to create a balance between the vine’s vegetative growth and its fruit development.
Vine plant from Alsace which is used to produce flavoured white wines with low acid content
Lactic Acid :
Acid which is formed at the time of the malolactic fermentation of the wine.
Vine species that produces grapes which are used to make wine.
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Vitis vinífera ...
Vine and olive trees are the two plants which mainly characterize the landscapes of Apulia.
Vine
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Vine cuttings are called slips or scions. These are usually grafted onto rootstock that has been specially cultivated to combine growth vigor with resistance to disease. They are then put into sand for one season. This is called bench-grafting.
A vine of northern Italy's Trentino-Alto-Adige zone, Teroldego is thought to have arrived there from the area of Verona around the shores of Lake Garda.
...vine produces between 15 and 50 clusters of grapes.
...vine typically produces between three and four bottles of wine, or between 15 to 20 glasses, annually.
...ton of grapes makes about 60 cases of wine, which equals 720 bottles.
Old Vine Zinfandel, $10. Bogle is located in Clarksburg, an AVA in the Sacramento Delta. Their Old Vine Zinfandel is a meaty and reliable Zin blended from gnarly old vines from Amador County, Lodi, and Lake County.
The vine-variety is the principal grape in the north of the Rhõne Valley. Syrah appreciates poor soil and hot climate.
The Syrah wine is strong, rich and colored with aromas of pepper, violet or raspberry, depending up on the soil.
Old Vine: Some wines come from vines that are 50, 70 or even 100 years of age, which yield small quantities of concentrated fruit, and make a more concentrated and complex wine.
This vine appeared to be unlike anything grown commercially in continental Europe then or, indeed, today.
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Lyre
A vine training method. More details may be found in my advice page on vine training techniques.
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Clone: a vine so produced to better adapt to climatic or geologic conditions. You will often hear in discussion of the grape of "the Romanée-Conti clone of Pinot noir as opposed to the "Volnay" clone.
A vine fruit, and the only one from which experts accept real wine can be made. There are thousands of varieties of grapes, some for eating and others for wine production. Wine grapes are known as varietals - Chardonnay, Cabernet sauvignon etc.
MARSANNE
Vine from which white wine is made and which is found above all in Provence, Savoie and Algérie.
Hybrid
Any vine crossing where one or both "parents" is not from the wine vine, VITIS VINIFERA.
vinifera - vine species of European origin, as almost all the well known wine producing varieties are.
vintage - can mean either the particular year in which the crop was harvested or the process of harvesting itself ...
VITICULTURIST: vine grower.
WINE: An alcoholic drink usually made by fermenting grape or other fruit juices.
WORT: Pronounced 'WHIRT' (as in shirt). In beer making it is the sweet, hopped solution before the onset of fermentation.
Eiswein (ice-vine)
The German word for "ice wine." This is an intense desert wine that has been made from very ripe grapes (without Botrytis) that were frozen on the vine. The frozen water is removed during pressing, leaving a very sweet must.
Wine grapes on a vine
Wine is usually made from one or more varieties of the European species Vitis vinifera, such as Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, or Merlot.
Age of the grape vine reported to be the world's oldest, located in Maribor, Slovenia: 400 years.
The wine Thomas Jefferson and colleageus drank to toast the new Declaration of Independence: Madeira.
SACY
White type of vine, cultivated in Yonne and to combine it, giving a very fresh and dry wine.
SAIGNÉE (BLEEDING) ...
DORNFELDER: Recent vine cross gaining wide popularity in Germany. Creates red wines from grapes that have every important red-wine variety suitable for central Europe in their geneology, ie.
DORNFELDER: Recent vine resulting from a Helfensteiner x Heroldrebe cross gaining wide popularity in Germany and England. Has synonym name Weinsberg S 341.
Bud-break the first stage in the annual growth-cycle of the vine. ^ back to top
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Cabernet Sauvignon perhaps the most well-known of the Bordeaux varietals, it is responsible for some of the worlds richest, most complex red wines.
One of the world's greatest white wine grapes, the Riesling vine's hardy wood makes it extremely resistant to frost.
Semillon is a vigorous vine but a thin-skinned grape so it's susceptible to sunburn and raising.
If you want to know what tannins taste like, just bite into a grape stem or eat a cabernet grape off the vine. In young red wines, tannins taste bitter and drying, but with age they taste silky.
(The latter name is the one used by those who subscribed to the now dubious theory that it was the original vine from which the cépage originated).
Riperia is the most common species of native North American grape vine. It is sometimes crossed with other species to produce rootstocks that are resistant to Phylloxera.
Rootstock ...
Red Wine Review: Watts Old Vine Zinfandel
Fresh, bright, open nose of ripe raspberry, strawberry, and a hint of earth and a minty, menthol aroma.
PINOT BLANC: Mutation of the Pinot Gris vine. Grape is generally used to make dry, crisp, rather intense white wines in the Alsace, parts of Burgundy and in Austria. In the latter country it is known as the Weissburgunder.
After the roots and stalk have developed, the untended vine would grow wildly, spending most of its energy on spreading its shoots and tendrils.
Mondavi was the first winery we ever visited on our first trip to Napa, and the first thing we did there was pick a grape from a vine near the front door. On every anniversary, when we opened our 1974, we pointed to that vine on the label.
The Chardonnay vine is widely planted in the Burgundy and Chablis regions. Hugely successful in many regions of the world due to its mid-season ripening and versatility.
Traditional hand-harvesting and mechanical harvesting are the two routes that a winery can take to get the grapes off the vine and ready for crush.
Musings on the Vine, A Collection of Thoughts, Suggestions and Opinions about Wine. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wiktionary, the Free Dictionary. The ARTFL Project, American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.
It is mentioned as the cross-bred vine of Rhine Riesling and Green Silvaner. The later expert knowledge has proven this variety to be created by crossing Rhine Riesling with Madeleine Royal.
Ethyl acetate frequently develops in grapes on the vine from contamination with Acetobacter spp. and other aerobic bacteria converting alcohol produced by yeasts in wounds to acetic acid.
A mutation of the Pinot Gris vine grown in the Alsace and Burgundy regions of France, and Austria. Used to make dry, intense whites. In Austria, it is known as Weissburgunder.
The grape clusters are cut from the vine and placed in buckets or boxes and then transferred to larger containers (large tubs in Europe, metal gondola trucks in California and elsewhere) for transport to the winery.
Phylloxera: Phylloxera is a vine louse, which attacks grape vine with a devastating effect.
Fruiting Wire: The wire closest to the fruiting zone of the vine.
Fruiting zone: The vine training or trellis system used in our vineyards designates an area 6-8 inches in height, ...
Oenology - The science and study of all aspects of wine and winemaking except vine-growing and grape-harvesting.
Old World Wine - Wine produced in the traditional wine growing areas of Europe and North Africa.
Phylloxera: A voracious vine louse that over time has destroyed vineyards in Europe and California.
Piedmont: An area in northwest Italy known for Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera, Dolcetto and Moscato.
Canopy: The foliage of a grape vine
Carbonated: Wines infused with carbon dioxide to make them bubbly.
Carbonic Maceration: The fermentation of uncrushed whole grapes which takes place inside the cells of the berries.
Icewine: A special wine produced by leaving the grapes on the vine until they are well frozen. They are then hand-picked and immediately pressed, while still frozen. The frozen must is then fermented and aged in barrels.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Region, White, Style
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