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D1 Flashcards

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Head grafting/top grafting

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The process of cutting the original vine at the trunk and grafting a bud from a new variety on top

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Grubbing Up

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The process of digging vines out the ground

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Slurry

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Semi liquid form of manure - organic compost

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Green Manure

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The term for cover crops that have been grown, mown and turned into soil to decompose and provide nutrients

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Fertigation

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The addition if water soluble fertiliser that’s added to an irrigation system (usually drip)

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Aspersion

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The reaction of water freezing and releasing energy, in this case to offer protection against frost to vines

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Under Cropping

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Term for when the yield of fruit is too low for the vigour of the vine

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Vegetative Cycle

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Year on year cycle of under cropping and excessive vigour compared to yield of fruit

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Petiole

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The area between the leaf stalk and stem of the vine. Where buds form

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10
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Hilling up

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The process of building up soil around the vine graft to protect from winter freeze

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11
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Inversion layer

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Warm zone of air 10m above ground level, 3-5 degrees warmer than ground level

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12
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Smudge Pots

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Oil/propane gas heaters

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Bougies

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Wax Candles used for frost mitigation

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Erysiphe Necator/ AKA Oidium tuckeri

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The fungus that causes Powdery Mildew. Specific to grapevines with American species more resistant than Vinifera

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Peronospora

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The water mould that causes Downy Mildew. Lives within the vines tissue

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16
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Thiols

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A category of aromas that are created during fermentation due to precursors in must. Eg 4MPP in Sauvignon Blanc

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Linalool and Geraniol

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A sub category of Terpenes (aromatic precursors) that contribute to Grape aromas in Muscat

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Vin Methode Nature

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The first recognised certification body of natural wine, based in France

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Lysozyme

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The enzyme that kills lactic acid bacteria, preventing MLC

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Lactones

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Aroma compounds derived from American oak that give aromas of coconut

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Colloids

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Microscopic particles too small for filtering. Removed by fining

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Velcorin

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The commercial name for dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC), a treatment added before bottling that inactivates Brettanomyces

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Sparging

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The action of flushing wine with inert gas to remove dissolved oxygen

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Flavour scalping

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An issue with plastic closures in which the plastic absorbs some flavour molecules leading to a loss of some flavour intensity

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Saran

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A form of plastic with low permeability, used for the seal under screw caps

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Technical Specification

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A list of a wines main measurable chemical parameters

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Reefers

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Insulated tanks used for long distance transportation of wine

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Laccase

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An enzyme contributed by botrytis, capable of oxidising compounds in must and wine as relatively resistant to SO2

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Aqueous solutions

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A solution eg grape must in which anthocyanins are more soluble

30
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Anaerobic metabolism

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A change in whole grapes when entered into an oxygen free environment. Some sugars in the grape are converted into alcohol. “Intracellular fermentation”

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Canopy

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Shoots and their major structures: buds, leaves, lateral shoots, tendrils, inflorescence and grape bunches

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Nodes

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Little swellings along shoot where other structures are attached

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Internodes

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The length in-between nodes

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Lignify

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The process of green shoots turning woody and brown, happens in autumn

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Petiole

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Another name for leaf stalk

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Second crop

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A set of inflorescences produced from lateral shoots

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Transpiration

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Process of drawing water and nutrients up through the vine from the roots to the leaves

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Teinturier varieties

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Varieties with red coloured pulp, eg alicante bouschet

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Respiration

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Process where energy is released from food substances to produce sugar

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Xylem

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A type of transport tissue that transfers water and nutrients from roots to other parts of the vine

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Lag phase

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Growth slows down for a few days during veraison

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Synthesis

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Construction of complex chemical compounds from simpler ones

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Phloem

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A type of transport tissue, transports a sugar solution from leaves to other parts of the vine during ripening

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E.N.S.O.

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El Nino-Southern Oscillation. A climatic cycle in the Pacific with significant effect on weather.

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Turgidity

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A vine shoots and leaves not wilting due to available water

46
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Mineralisation

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The process in which organisms in the soil feed on organic matter and convert it into inorganic matter, a form available to the vine

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Biomass

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The total quantity/weight of organisms in a given area or volume of soil

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I.F.O.A.M.

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International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements

49
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Dynamised

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Action of stirring the contents of, in this case the cow horn, into water by creating a vortex then reversing it.

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Plough pan

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An impervious layer of soil that has formed from years of ploughing at the same depth

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Subsoiling

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The action of breaking down the plough pan before cultivation

52
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Titration

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A method of finding out the amount of substance in a solution by gradually adding measured amounts of another substance that reacts in a known way

53
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Kloeckera and Candida

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Strains of ambient yeasts

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