A little water is needed to make wine, but how do you know when enough is enough? ESA’s GrapeLook service can give you the answer. GrapeLook uses satellites to help decide how much to water vineyards, and when.
Environment
Dec 21, 2011
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A topsy-turvy growing season, which zigzagged from drought to hail to heat wave, produced a distressingly mixed crop in Bordeaux this year -- but gave optical grape sorters a chance to shine.
Ecology
Oct 25, 2011
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The sluggish economy and unusually cool weather this season have dramatically tightened the supply of wine grapes, a situation that will likely continue for several years, reports Robert Smiley, dean and professor emeritus ...
Other
Sep 23, 2011
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AgroAtlas is a new interactive website that shows the geographic distributions of 100 crops; 640 species of crop diseases, pests, and weeds; and 560 wild crop relatives growing in Russia and neighboring countries. Downloadable ...
Ecology
Mar 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wine grapes that flourish in certain parts of Europe just might excel in West Texas.
Other
Nov 5, 2010
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(AP) -- Everyone likes a wine with character. How about one with 140 of them? Yes, the people at Twitter - the social media site on which users post messages no longer than 140 characters - are getting into the wine business, ...
Internet
Oct 15, 2009
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After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, Ms Ana González Marco concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences the fermentative ...
Other
Apr 30, 2009
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Deficit irrigation is an agricultural technique used to achieve a variety of results depending on the crop. For white wine grapes, it balances the crop load by limiting the canopy size so there aren't too many leaves shading ...
Feb 17, 2009
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