CALIFORNIA WINERIES INVENT HIGHTECH TO PICK GRAPES
September 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
CALIFORNIA winemakers are turning to high-tech chemistry to choose optimum grape picking times, says research presented at the annual American Chemical Society meeting, San Francisco. Michael Cleary, senior manager of grape and wine chemistry at E & J Gallo Winery told participants that spectroscopy, (studying the make-up of matter based on the light it emits), and chromatography, (chemically separating mixtures into their component parts), will be used more commonly in its wine-making. Resulting molecular data can help identify and evaluate ...
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