Botrytis:
A fungus, affecting grapes with gray rot (bad) or noble rot (See "noble rot"). The wines, produced with the help of noble rot are called "botrytized".
Ampelography
Science of wine description from the species Vitis, its Wine Varieties and their identification.
Biodynamic viticulture
an organic viticulture with also regarding the cosmos, especially the moon cycles, based on the theories of the philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
Botrytis
A fungus, affecting grapes with grey rot (bad) or noble rot (See "noble rot"). The wines, produced with the help of noble rot are called "botrytized".
Clone
A vine plant made from the buds or cuttings of a "mother vine"
Coulure
French term describing a fall-off of tiny berries, soon after flowering. Grape bunches always loose some, but too much can terribly affecting the yield.
Crop Thinning
Crossing
Gobelet method
A special training method to tie up some branches (up to five), each with only two buds, in a goblet or another shape. Gobelet is used for Gamay (Beaujolais) in France.
Hybrid
Hybrids are grapes bred from more than one vine species. Hybrids have been made to combine in the progeny some of the best characteristics of their parents.
Noble rot
Known as "Pourriture Noble" in France, N. r. is a mould attacking the skin of grapes that they wither and thereby removing some of the juice. The result is a higher concentration of sugar for producing extremely sweet wines. The grapes may look disgusting but give very fine and long-living sweet wines.
Oidium
French: for 'powdery mildew', a fungus disease of vine
Organic wine
(See under winemaking
Philloxera vastatrix
Name of a plant louse attacking the roots of vines. During the late decades of the19th- century it caused widespread damages to the Wine producing countries in Europe and California.
Pourriture noble
(See 'noble rot')
Proprietaire
French name for an owner of a Chateau or vineyard.
Vinifera
(See 'vitis vinifera')
Vintner
A person, who cultivate vines and produces wine.
Viticulture
The science and practise of vine and grape culture.
Vitis vinifera
The family of European grape variety from which the world's finest wines will be made.
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