ISVV part 2 – some current research

Axel Marchal in the ISVV lab

Just a few of the fascinating research projects currently underway at Bordeaux's centre of wine academia. See Joined-up science at Bordeaux's ISVV - part 1 for an introduction to the Institute and its aims.

For our more vintage-specific reports on Bordeaux this week, see UGC 2017s in bottle, part 1 and part 2, as well as Gavin Quinney's Bordeaux 2019 weather and harvest report

Associate professor Axel Marchal (above) introduced me to several other senior members of the ISVV as well as to the director Alain Blanchard (below), a microbiologist who seemed to regret that the heavy load of administration...