ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Chenin blanc wine is of economic importance to South Africa and a range of diverse dry and semi-dry wines are locally produced in this genre. Currently, the use of three distinctly different style names, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The quality of wine is largely dependent on environmental conditions and recent studies have therefore focused on agricultural practices in terms of water, soil and biodiversity conservation. The industry ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The market for high quality lower alcohol wines is growing globally. Several factors are responsible for this trend, with socio-economic and health concerns being considered as being the most relevant. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background New methods to facilitate exploratory analysis in scientific data are in high demand. There is an abundance of available data used only for confirmatory analysis from which new hypotheses ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Brandy producers in South Africa can produce three categories of brandy, and within those categories, varies styles in order to cater for diverse consumer needs. Thus they have divergent opinions as to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent years South African wines have been under the spotlight due to references in the international wine media to a distinctive ‘burnt rubber’ character. Many winemakers and wine experts argued ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focussed on the effect of oxygen on the chemical and sensory evolution of Sauvignon blanc wine under controlled oxidation conditions. The sensorial interactive effects between Sauvignon ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Agriculture worldwide is under great pressure to produce enough food in order to sustain the ever-growing world population. Among the many challenges faced by food producers, crop losses and damage ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Vitis vinifera L. carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 1 gene (VvCCD1) is a member of a structurally conserved gene family encoding enzymes that cleave multiple carotenoid substrates to form apocarotenoids. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL; muramidase; EC 3:2:1:17) is an enzyme present in high concentrations in chicken (Gallus gallus) egg whites. It hydrolyses the link between N-acetylmuramic acid and ...