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Decks in this class (37)

The vine: The anatomy of the vine 1
All vines have a similar structur...,
What are the major structures of ...,
From where does the main shoot comes
32  cards
D1: The propagation of the vine 2
How does the vine propagate in th...,
What is a cutting,
What is layering
28  cards
D1: The Vine Growth cycle 3
1 budburst northern hemisphere ma...,
The timing of budburst depends on...,
What contributes the soil tempera...
76  cards
D1: The growing environment 4
What a vine needs,
Warm and light are critical for v...,
Solar radiation is the main sourc...
57  cards
D1: Hazards Pests and Diseases
Drought,
What can drought do to the vine,
What are the management options f...
60  cards
D1: Harvest
Choosing the date of harvest depe...,
However more recently the context...,
One overriding factor is the thre...
14  cards
D1: Viticulture scenarios
Priorat,
Why will the wines of priorat nev...,
Pauillac bordeaux
5  cards
D1: Wine components
Wine is made up of a complex arra...,
Water,
Alcohol
24  cards
D1: approaches to winemaking
Conventional winemaking builds on...,
Conventional winemaking now includes,
Just because manipulations are po...
10  cards
D1: General winemaking options
Oxygen is responsible for a numbe...,
Why isoxygen a general threath fo...,
What does oxidation do with the c...
75  cards
D1: Maturation
Generally oxidation leads to a gr...,
Additionally oxidation can influe...,
For red wines oxidation also seem...
40  cards
D1: finifhin and packaging
Check list getting your wine read...,
Post fermentation clarification i...,
What is sedimentation
90  cards
D1: Specific options for white winemaking
What is skin contact,
The majority of white wines are m...,
Why minimal skin contact
26  cards
D1 Specific options for producing wines with residual sugar
Wines with residual encompass a l...,
The key ways of producing wines w...,
The concentration of sugars in gr...
26  cards
D1: Specific options for red winemaking
Many of the choices in red winema...,
Factors that affect extraction are,
Anthocyannins tannins and oxygen
35  cards
D1: Specific options for rosé winemaking
There are three ways of rose wine...,
Direct pressing,
Short maceration
17  cards
D1: Water (growing environment) 5
Vine needs water to survive and a...,
The vine needs water for turgidty...,
Transpiration
24  cards
D1: growing environment nutrients 6
Nutrients are important for healt...,
The most important nutrients are,
Nitrogen
25  cards
D1: growing environment: climate class, weather, and climate change 7
Climate,
Climate classifications,
Gdd
26  cards
D1: Approaches to grape growing 8
The 4 approaches to grape growing,
In the second half of the 20th ce...,
Monoculter advantages
36  cards
D1: Vineyard establishment 9
To produce high volume inexpensiv...,
To produce prem or super prem wines,
The price of land itself within d...
25  cards
D1: Managing Nutrients and water 10
Soil health is the ability of the...,
Poor soil health can lead to prob...,
The right balance of nitrogen pho...
36  cards
D1: Canopy management 11
The key aims to canopy management,
Vine organs buds leaves and fruit...,
Good canopy management can also r...
26  cards
D2: Factors influencing demand for wine (1)
Wine laws the creation of gis or ...,
Pdo and gi is more a guarantee on...,
Legal changes often com about rel...
70  cards
D2: Types of business engaged in the production of wine (2)
An estate producer produces wine ...,
There are also marketing benefits...,
The main disadvantage of estate p...
34  cards
D2: Different options for getting the wine to the point of sale (3)
Once the wine is produced the pro...,
Governements put controls on the ...,
For the purpos of this book a fre...
44  cards
D2: Reaching the end Consumer within a free market-retail (4)
Supermarkets and hypermarkets mos...,
In many markets such as the usa u...,
In order that customers cannot ea...
52  cards
D2: Reaching the end consumer within a Free Market- Hospitality (5)
The average price of wine sold in...,
Two types of bars specialis wine ...,
Specialis wine bars
13  cards
D2: Other types of Market (6)
Monopoly markets,
Bars and restaurants can buy from...,
The aim of the retail monopolies
14  cards
D2: Marketing (7)
What is marketing,
What is the ultimate aim of marke...,
Everyone in the entire company ne...
30  cards
D2: Analysing the current market and identifying the target consumer (8)
Although the creaton of the produ...,
Another important activity is whe...,
The most common way to achieve th...
26  cards
D2:Setting the objectives of the marketing strategy
The first vital part of creating ...,
The objectives should cover 4 key...,
2 what are the aims of the market...
6  cards
D2: Devising the marketing strategy (9)
The marketing mix,
One common way of identifying tho...,
1 product this is the product whi...
57  cards
D3: Bordeaux
France has a long history of wine...,
The major expansion of vineyards ...,
The middle ages saw the importanc...
27  cards
D3: Wines Of The World: Burgundy
Grape growing history dates from ...,
Dijon is in the north all the vin...,
Just under dijon
36  cards
D3: Wines of the world: Rhône
Rhone is treated here as 2 regions,
Syrah,
Grenache nooir
4  cards
D3: Germany
History they had a reputation for...,
Some of the most influential vine...,
It took ceveral centuries to reco...
87  cards

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