Treatment of diseases of the vine and is composed of a basket of useful publications for the farmer under the protection of crops.
The institute promotes and disseminates the results of its testing activities by means of free publications agricultural entrepreneur and dedicated technical staff.
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The DOCG designation. (Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin) is attributed to the already recognized DOC wines from at least five years, which are considered to be of particular value in relation to the intrinsic quality characteristics.
The recognition of DOCG. should provide a discipline-growing and winemaking usually more restrictive.
Although these wines may be back for the EU legislation, in the broader category of quality wine
The use of DOC is not permitted for wine made from grapes that partially or totally, which have not been classified among the recommended and authorized or that are derived from interspecific hybrids between Vitis vinifera and other species of Asian or American.
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The DOC (Denomination of Controlled Origin), is attributed to wines produced in areas of small or medium size, as provided for by production rules, and that the existing EU legislation, and as already mentioned, can be categorized as the most ample of quality wine
These wines are also regulated by EEC Regulation 823/87 and Presidential Decree No. 348/94.
Some DOC can return some additional indications on the label:
This name is used to indicate the best table wines obtained from production areas larger than the DOC and DOCG wines made from grapes determined from well-defined territories that sometimes involve multiple regions.
This name is therefore useful to the consumer to know the area of production of the drink.
The IGT may also be replaced by the words “vin de pays” for wines produced in Val d’Aosta, French bilingualism, and the mention “Landwein”, provided the case of wines produced in the Province of Bolzano, the bilingual German.
Designated with the name you can add color and the name of the wine grapes.
The IGT can not use the name of regions or areas used for the DOC. DOC or vine can be mentioned only when the wine area is of significant size.
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How much does geography mean to you? A great deal probably when you are buying Burgundy. I assume that most Wine Spectator readers expect a wine labeled Montrachet to cost many times more than one sold simply as Bourgogne. You probably also have a reasonably keen idea of what differences to expect between a Pauillac and a St.-Emilion.
You might not be able to describe in detail the characteristics of other, more obscure French locations such as Madiran, Maury and Montlouis, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the locals in France can. And you can be more than 99 percent sure that the wine inside the bottle comes from the place cited on the label.
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Weinstein – Achieve a faster stabilization by cooling
The stability of a crystal wine means for the practitioner usually Weinstein stability. At Weinstein crystals occur in various forms, but can be clearly demonstrated analytically. (Photos: Daniel Powder) is the natural crystalline precipitates in the young wine, it contains 90 percent of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate), the acidic potassium salt of tartaric acid. He shows how finely crystalline, brownish precipitate that tends to be for storage and Schülpenbildung and slightly acidic taste. The proportion of the calcium compound (calcium tartrate) is compared with the potassium salt generally low. The natural Calciumtartratausscheidung occurs so rarely.
Although the quality of a wine has to do with the formation of tartar little influence on the crystal clarity of a drink, lower the drinking pleasure of consumers and are often mistakenly viewed as a mistake.
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Rebelein, Hans, Dr. rer. nat., Director of the State-chemistry. Chemical laboratory in Würzburg. * 17.05.1916 in Würzburg, † 05.23.1975.
Dr. Rebelein completed – interrupted by the second World War II – Würzburg in his study of chemistry. From 1945 he worked at the National Chemical Investigation Agency in Würzburg. It was followed by studies of food technology and chemical promotion with a wine theme. It was his entire interest in the wine-assessment with the help of some of his newly developed and simplified methods. His analysis methods and assessment principles of national and international attention and learned went into the wine-examination regulations.
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Not indispensable: Wadenswil Research Station provides for the Swiss-German viticulture important groundwork.
A good glass of wine with friends – who is thinking about how much challenging work is done before we can toast with a good drop? The Research Centre Wadenswil (FAW) is committed to good quality wine and wine growing a profitable one. In the service of farmers, consumers / Interior and of policy and administration, the 150 employees / internal FAW research for the fruit, vegetable and wine growing. Healthy food from a competitive Swiss agriculture are their target.
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“Animal and leathery” flavors can on the one hand be part of grape varieties or assemblage-specific aroma complex, for example, contains the bouquet of ripe Syrah animal sounds (down to notes, which remind us of wildlife or offals, etc.), Sangiovese often resembles more or less intensively on horseback, and blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, and possibly other varieties, depending on the terroir, animal odor components also have. On the other hand, those flavors are formed or enhanced by barrel aging (if not the toasty aromas of new wood to be very much dominated) and longer bottle aging.
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The Europeans are only 12 percent of the world’s population, but half of the global alcohol consumption is responsible for. Accordingly, the large economic losses.
Excessive alcohol consumption leads to other things from liver cirrhosis, cancer and high blood pressure.
Alcohol during pregnancy is one of the most common causes of mental retardation in newborns.
Alcoholism, broken families and leads to disability. In addition, the consumption of alcohol for many thousands of deaths a year in charge.
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