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UCD Professor/Geneticist to Retire June 29 June 02, 2021 University of California, Davis (UCD) professor and geneticist Dr. Andrew Walker will retire June 29 after more than 30 years on the Department of Viticulture and Enology faculty and as a winegrape breeder. Given the long-term nature of the grape breeding process, its not surprising that some of Walkers more significant breeding projects came to fruition later in his career--the release of five nematode resistant rootstocks in 2009,...

A bottle of wine aged in space could sell for $1 million — how and why it tastes different than Earth-bound wine CNBC 1 hr ago Tom Huddleston Jr. © Provided by CNBC Christies is selling a bottle of Chateau Petrus 2000 that spent 14 months aging aboard the International Space Station while orbiting Earth. A bottle of red wine that spent more than a year in space could end up being the most expensive wine ever sold. Christies is selling a bottle of Pétrus 2000 that was age...

Seguin Moreau Debuts QTT Barrel Posted on February 23, 2021 NAPA, Calif., — After more than ten years of research and development conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ISVV) in Bordeaux, Seguin Moreau is proud to unveil the QTT barrel. QTT, or the molecules quercotriterpenosides, are a new family of oak compounds found to play a key role in sensory profiles of wines aged in barrels and are responsible for the sensation of “sugariness” and sweetness in dr...

Ensuring the authenticity of wine: the role of NMR SHARES In a recent webinar, Thomas Spengler of Bruker BioSpin along with Elena Meléndez Álvarez and Eva Lopez Rituerto of Estación Enológica de Haro, La Rioja-Spain discussed the role of NMR in assuring authenticity of Spanish Wines. With the increasing prevalence of economically motivated adulteration and ever-widening trade routes, it is essential that the authenticity and purity of a wine can be verified throughout its entire journey fr...