Tomorrow a couple of grad students will be presenting their research at Davis and, happily for me, both have pinot centered topics. The info is below.
Tom Fitzpatrick
“Variation in the Phenolic Composition of California Pinot Noir
Fruit and Wines: Analysis and Explanation”————————————————————–
M.J. Tsay
“An Attempt to Discover the Drivers
of Quality for Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc”115 Wellman @ 11:00-11:50
I a big fan of analysis and explanation, and since phenolics are the final frontier of wine research I’ll be interested to hear what Tom has to say. Even better, MJ will be there presenting the results from her pinot research that I participated in last week.
I’ll report back tomorrow with what is sure to be interesting news.
[...] As I mentioned earlier on this here winery blog (a little SEO there), I visited Davis today to see the results of some research I was able to participate in. I’ll be posting about it in more detail later, but one of the interesting bits to come out of the presentation was that wine growers and producers grade wines more harshly than wine critics do. Of the 20 pinots and 20 Sauvignon Blancs tasted, only one was rated higher by growers than by the professional wine critics. [...]