Managing Wine Quality. Volume 1: Viticulture and Wine Quality. Edition No. 2. Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition

Table of Contents

Part 1 Understanding Grape and Wine Sensory Attributes 1. Volatile aroma compounds and wine sensory attributes 2. Wine taste and mouthfeel 3. Wine colour

Part 2 Measuring Grape and Wine Properties 4. Practical methods of measuring grape quality 5. Instrumental analysis of grapes, must and wine 6. Advances in microbiological quality control of wine 7. Sensory analysis of wine 8. Wine authenticity, traceability and safety monitoring

Part 3 Viticulture Technologies, Grape Composition and Wine Quality Attributes 9. Terroir: The effect of the physical environment on vine growth, grape ripening and wine sensory attributes 10. Genetic and genomic approaches to improve grape quality for winemaking 11. Viticultural and vineyard management practices and their effects on grape and wine quality 12. Precision viticulture: Managing vineyard variability for improved quality outcomes 13. Fungal contaminants in the vineyard and wine quality; Controlling ochratoxin A in the vineyard and winery 14. Advances in grape processing equipment 15. Advances in grape harvesting methods 16. Concerns about global warming and its impact on viticulture

Authors

Andrew G. Reynolds Professor of Biological Sciences/Viticulture, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Prof. Reynolds has had a long and distinguished career in Oenology. His career has included a position as Research Scientist for Agriculture Canada in British Columbia and, since 1997, a faculty position at Brock University. He is well known for his research into canopy management, the impacts of site and soil on flavour, irrigation and water relations, geomatics and the use of GPS/GIS and remote sensing for studying terroir. He is the author of over a hundred published articles and has been the editor of two award-winning titles on wine science.