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NEW VIDEO from HanDrinksSolo.com [Link to HDS Vide

NEW VIDEO from HanDrinksSolo.com
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We unpack the rather remarkable Vin Blanc 2017 from @theblacksmithza - which is only getting better right at the moment; six years from harvest.

We also ask the question:
"If 'great wine is made in the vineyards' then why do we have so MANY rockstar winemakers and so FEW rockstar viticulturists?

Thankfully journalists like @timatkinmw are doing their bit to shine the light on growers and viticultural consultants like @visualviti and @marco.ventrella.35

Also, for the viti-geeks out there, another account to check out is @gdylla - a brilliant an informative account that'll teach you something new everyday.

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Day 2 at the @sasev_platform annual conference! A

Day 2 at the @sasev_platform annual conference!
A fairly shocking presentation from Elleunorah Allsopp made some vital points:
1️⃣ "Phylloxera STILL poses a certain threat to vines - even those planted on grafted roots)"
2️⃣ "In a study of 82 South African farms (all of which showed prominent presence of Phylloxera in their soils), not a single one of the farmers was aware that phylloxera existed in their soils.
3️⃣ Viticultural CONSULTANTS in the area had never heard of Phylloxera before.

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It's Day 2 at the @sasev_platform 43rd Conference,

It's Day 2 at the @sasev_platform 43rd Conference, where scientists present on South African Wine Studies that are changing the way the world makes wine.

Just finished a great presentation on Killer Yeasts by dannyboy299792458 , discussing the strain, Suhomyces pyralidae, and its potential to eradicate Brettanomyces bruxellensis during wine fermentations.

Prelim results seem solid, but there is still a lot more testing required before we bury brett once and for all.
Not least of all because of Brett's annoying "Viable non-culturable" phase, where he shifts to stealth mode and is resistant to current treatments like sulphur additions.

Does anyone have any questions for dannyboy299792458 ???

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Arguably the coolest thing that could happen to a

Arguably the coolest thing that could happen to a wine geek!
TWO WHOLE DAYS of lectures tackling topics like:

1️⃣ Mathematical modelling and multivariate statistical process control of red wine fermentation.
2️⃣ Quality assessment: Are there better protocols than 20-point and 100-point scoring?
3️⃣ The valorisation of existing top 12 Shiraz wine data: Unlocking knowledge from complex data sets.
4️⃣ Strain diversity and timing of lactic acid production in Lachancea thermotolerans.

And tomorrow we start all over again fior DAY 2 of the South African Society for Eonology and Viticulture 43rd Conference, hosted at @joostenberg_wines

For fascinating #winescience insights, be sure to follow @sasev_platform
There are such insane takeaways from day one that I hope to share over the next few days. And tomorrow I'll head back to do it all over again!

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