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Plus, Italy is on schedule to become the largest wine producer in the world in 2025. Also, news on how hot summers affect yeast strains in the vineyard. View this...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 12 September 2025
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Diary of a Napa harvest intern – part 2
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Monday 7 September 2020
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Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014.
At the beginning of August I visited...
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To celebrate 4 July we examine yeasty matters in the Napa Valley.
In 2012 Michael Silacci (pictured), the amiable Opus...
Max on Oz
Our Australian columnist passes on news of a potentially ground-breaking discovery from Down Under. For a general introduction to yeasts...
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See also MW Symposium – wines on the frontier. Living Wine, the title of the 9th MW Symposium held in...
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Those who read Schmidt on Sponti on Monday may be particularly interested in these experiences with spontaneous fermentation in New...
Don't quote me
A comment by Julia about some of the German wines of the 2014 vintage in this thread on our Members'...
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Part 3 of my coverage of the NEW11 on yeast as part of terroir provoked such a long thread in...
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See also the introductory part 1, part 2 on soils, part 4 on the consumer, and finally the tasting notes...
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Please sign a petition on behalf of the excellent Cullen Wines of Margaret River, Western Australia, whose heartfelt motto is...
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Take a look at the results of an absolutely fascinating study of the ambient yeasts involved in making wine at...
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In a world first, scientists at The Australian Wine Research Institute have cracked the genetic code of a wine yeast...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The beauty of wine is supposed...
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