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decanter.com: Spanish scientists working on ‘electronic tongue’
Profil_webnwine_marcel_icon From Marcel Merz, at 04. August 2011 06:40

by Emmet Cole – Researchers in Spain are working on an ‘electronic tongue’ that can identify different types of Cava wines, Electronic tongueand automatically produces classifications similar to those used by sommeliers.

The device, developed at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will initially be used to detect flaws in the cava production process.

It mimics the human taste system via a combination of chemical measurement tools and advanced mathematical software techniques.

Crucially, the device is able to precisely quantify the amount of sugar added after secondary fermentation during the cava wine production process.

This ability enables sommelier-like classification of cava wines from the low-sugar Brut nature (typically, less than 3 grams of sugar per litre) to the sugar-laden Sweet (more than 50 grams per litre).

Sommeliers need not worry, Manel del Valle, the lead scientist on the project says, because the electronic tongue is more suited to automated testing on a winery production floor and can not distinguish nuance.

‘The sommelier will be always the one with personal treatment, let’s say in the restaurant. This personal treatment will be never replaced by a machine,’ explains del Valle.

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Eiswein – schwebende Eleganz
Sigi_hiss_kopf_lachend_icon From Sigi Hiss, at 02. August 2011 11:24

Sigi Hiss -  Nein ich habe mich nicht vertippt & auch der Poesie-Gaul ist nicht mit mir durchgegangen. Der Wein, dieser wirklich spezielle Eiswein vom Blauen Spätburgunder, Variante Blanc de Noir, weckt diese Assoziationen von ganz alleine. Da ist keine massige Süße, die zwar langes Leben verheißt aber dafür erstmal Balance & Finesse 15 Jahren in die Wüste schickt. Nicht immer kommt sie auch zurück. Bei diesem 2007er schmeckt sich das ganz anders. Trotz der nicht lächerlichen Süße von 181g/l Restzucker & den nur 9,5% Alkohol. Die Säure mit 9,6g/l durchwirkt den ganzen Wein, macht ihn leichtfüßig, schwebend am Gaumen. Das ist kein leichter Wein, kann Eiswein nie sein, soll er auch nicht. Vielleicht hilft ein Vergleich aus der Sportwelt. Da hatten wir früher einen Muhammad Ali, ein wieselflinker Schwergewichtsboxer. Die schwebende Eisweinfraktion. Und ihm stellen wir einen Sumoringer gegenüber. Die KOLOSSale Eisweinfraktion.

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decanter.com: Penfolds Grange denies setting minimum retail price
Passfoto_zoom3_icon From Franz Aregger, at 29. July 2011 05:32

by Adam Lechmere – Treasury Wine Estates CEO David Dearie has strongly denied Penfolds will set a minimum price for Grange, and that he had been quoted out of context.

In an interview with The Drinks Business, Dearie was quoted as saying ‘Next year we will set a minimum price [for Grange] and you must hit that minimum price or you won’t get an allocation.’

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VDP – Sonder-Depesche
Sigi_hiss_kopf_lachend_icon From Sigi Hiss, at 29. July 2011 05:28

2. & 3. September: WEIN-VERNISSAGEN ZUR ERÖFFNUNG DER KUNSTSAISON


Die Prädikatsweingüter zu Gast in Berliner Galerien
Anlässlich der Eröffnung der Berliner Kunstsaison am 2./3. September 2011 kombinieren wieder einige renommierte Galerien ihre exklusiven Vernissagen zeitgenössischer Kunst mit den besten Deutschen Weinen der VDP-Prädikatsweingüter und bieten neugierigen Kunstflaneuren, Kunden und Weinliebhabern Genuss für alle Sinne. Einladungen bzw. Karten erhalten Sie direkt bei der veranstaltenden Galerie… 

 

Alle Wein-Vernissagenfinden Sie hier…

 

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decanter.com: Hugh Johnson’s home on the market
Sigi_hiss_kopf_lachend_icon From Sigi Hiss, at 29. July 2011 05:24

by Adam Lechmere – Saling Hall, the home of Hugh Johnson OBE and his family for the last 40 years, is for sale.Saling Hall

The fine Elizabethan manor house with its superb 12-acre (4.8ha) gardens is on the market through estate agents Savills for £2.8m.

Johnson and his wife Judy bought Saling Hall in Essex in the early 1970s, a major attraction being the extensive five-room cellar.

‘It really is very special,’ the Decanter columnist, author and gardener told Decanter.com. ‘The oldest part of the house is Tudor, and no one quite knows why it had such enormous cellars.’

The house, with its Elizabethan panelling and magnificent fireplaces – one is nine feet wide – is described by Savills as ‘the quintessence of English country comfort dressed up as a miniature stately home’.

For Johnson, who is a renowned arboriculturalist and horticulturalist as well as a wine critic, the gardens at Saling Hall are its most compelling feature.

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