ASVO also publishes original research in grape and wine science in the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research and runs 1-day seminars geared to the burgeoning wine industry in Australia.
Science Friday, an NPR call-in program, has a new web-based video series on wine science.
And mind you, these were no rookies, but trained wine science students in France!
In a famous study done at the University of Bordeaux in 2001, 54 wine science students were provided two glasses of red wine, and then asked to describe what they smelled with as much detail possible.
The rules have been in operation since December last year but Ruben Parker, a 21-year-old wine science student told VICE he wasn't even aware of the change, and judging from his experience last weekend, it seems some of the bars in town weren't either.
Most wine-science products are based on pseudoscience, McGee concludes, and do no better for your quaff than letting it sit in a decanter for an hour or so.
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I did, however, consult a scientist: Dr. Tom Mansell, PhD candidate in chemistry at Cornell University and publisher of the wine and science journal Ithacork.
We need to decode flavor chemistry in order to connect wine and culinary science to consumer perceptions.
Mr. Mondavi, who has also recently donated $25 million to the University of California at Davis for a wine and food science institute and a performing arts center, each bearing his name, makes no bones about his motives.
"A Taste of Science: Making the Subjective Objective in the California Wine World," Social Studies of Science, xlvi (2016), 436-460.
