The only problem I foresee is that this new index may be shorter because of heavy censorship and the dislike of foreign media in some countries.DENNIS TANSingaporeSour grapesSIR Your piece on the Cabernet Sauvignon grape (May 3rd) is stronger on oenology than history.
Australia may have only a tiny share of the world's wine output, but it produces 20% of the world's scientific papers on viticulture and oenology.
The newly dominant wine merchants began to impress upon the producers the importance of the study of oenology and double fermentation, which makes the wine easier to transport, and so the foreign market for champagne grew.
The dept. of oenology at the Univ. of Calif, at Davis found that under blind-test circumstances, professional wine connoisseurs are often unable to distinguish red wine from white.
The city, which pioneered the bike lane, is an agricultural stronghold, exemplified by the University of California at Davis, the original farm school for the Berkeley campus and now home to a viticulture and oenology department.
Though she had been a good student, none of her grant applications for college were approved until an airline, hoping to promote diversity, offered to pay her way to study viticulture and oenology: grapes and wine.
Mr. Robledo, 30, and his family are part of a tiny but growing fraternity of Mexican-American winemakers, many of them farmworkers' children who now pursue wine business degrees or study viticulture and oenology at the University of California, Davis.
After studying oenology and working with producers in the Côte de Beaune, he decided to set up a separate winemaking operation, using some of the vineyards from the family estate.
The wine director, Alicia Wilbur, who earned a degree in oenology at Fresno State, in California, and worked for seven years as a bartender, oversees a cellar that honors classics — French Burgundies, California cabs — but also ranges across terrain unfamiliar to the average wine drinker.
"When I was an oenology student in Milan, I would often go to my grandfather for advice," she said as we walked through the vineyard, from where we could see the towering dome of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in the distance.
