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Sauvignon Blanc South Africa fosters excellence in making and marketing South African Sauvignon Blanc locally and internationally. Members’ networking and information exchange include technical seminars and workshops, selection and training of specialist tasting panels for wine competitions, a blog covering technical aspects, as well as Sauvignon Blanc tastings for media and wine lovers. The annual FNB Sauvignon Blanc Top 10 competition was started in 2007 to promote innovation and excellence of the Sauvignon Blanc cultivar and reward those making wines of true distinction.
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THE LATEST FROM SAUVIGNON BLANC SA
Entries now open for 2020 FNB Sauvignon Blanc Top 10
Entries for the 2020 FNB Sauvignon Blanc Top 10 are now open. Sauvignon Blanc South Africa invites producers of this popular cultivar to enter their best wines by Tuesday 18 August 2020 for the annual competition. Late entries will be accepted until Friday 21 August...
Viticultural and oenological influences on volatile thiols
Dr Carien Coetzee Basic Wine This table serves as a general indication of the effects of various viticultural and winemaking techniques on the precursors and their aromatic volatile thiols in the must and wine. A few things need to be considered when consulting...
Removing copper-H2S complexes using membrane filtration
Dr. Carien Coetzee Basic Wine 30 June 2020 FOCUS ON H2S: Part 6 The entire Focus on H2S series has highlighted the importance of removing the copper-H2S complex from wine, especially in cases where copper was added as a remedial treatment for the removal of reductive...
Removing copper-H2S complexes using PVI/PVP
Dr. Carien CoetzeeBasic Wine28 June 2020 FOCUS ON H2S: PART 5 In Part 1 of this Focus on H2S series, the implications of fining a reductive wine with copper(II)sulphate were discussed. Cu2+ will bind with H2S to form a copper-H2S complex, however, contrary to popular...
Winter fermented Sauvignon Blanc – Innovation giving South African wineries an edge
An article by Dr Carien Coetzee of Basic Wine on the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon website. Fresh aromatics are among the most sought-after qualities in wine. In South Africa, some wineries have taken the quest for freshness literally, by freezing the juice....
Copper and SO2 used together – effect on H2S
Dr. Carien CoetzeeBasic Wine20 May 2020 FOCUS ON H2S: PART 4COPPER AND SO2 USED TOGETHER – EFFECT ON H2S The mechanisms involved in the formation of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) post-bottling are not yet as well defined as those involved during fermentation. However,...
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