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What is the Asian Lady Beetle?
The Asian Lady Beetle is an insect pest new to North American viticulture, ffirst causing problems in the 2001 vintage in the country’s northeast.
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What is the Armillaria Root Rot?
The ‘Armillaria Root Rot’ is a fungal disease that resides in woody plant materials in the soil and damages a variety of plants, including vines. It is also known as mushroom or shoestring root rot…
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Where do artist-made wine labels come from?
‘Artists’ labels’ are wine labels illustrated by works of art, often a different one for each vintage.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild commissioned Cubist Jean Carlu to design the first ‘Chateau Bottled’ label for Chateau Mouton-Rothschild in 1924…
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What is the meaning of the word ‘arrachage’ when relating to the french vineyard?
‘Arrachage’ is a French term meaning ripping out vines from the soil…
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What is an ‘armazém’?
‘Armazém’ is a Portuguese term that means ‘warehouse’ or’store’. Armazém are the long, low lodges where Port wines and Madeira wines are aged. They have shaped the architecture of the villages where these wines were stored, respectively Vila Nova de Gaia and Funchal.
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What is the arm of a vine?
The ‘arm’ of a vine is a viticultural word for the woody framework of the vine from which the canes and spurs emanate. The position of the arms is determined by the vine-training system utilized. They can be borne along cordons at intervals so that the buds, following trimming, are Read more…
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What is the AP Number (Amtliche Prüfungsnummer) for German wines?
Every bottle of German quality wine, whether QBA or QMP, has the AP Number (or ‘Amtliche Prüfungsnummer’ in German). This 10-to-12-digit number indicates that the wine has passed the famous Germany’s official testing procedure, which includes submitting wine samples for analysis and a blind tasting test…
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What are ‘Aphids’?
Aphids are small insects of the Aphidiodae family that feed by sucking the juices from plants…
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What is ‘Anthracnose’?
Anthracnose is a fungal disease of European origin that attacks vines. It is also known as black spot or bird’s eye rot…
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What is a Vine Anther?
The ‘anther’ of a vine is the pollen-bearing section of the Stamen of a vine flower. Each of the grape’s five anthers has sacs in which a large number of pollen mother cells mature into pollen grains about two to three weeks before flowering. Then, pollen grains are expelled, possibly before the Calyptra or flower caps have fallen…