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Wine grape quality management

Course details

Name: Wine grape quality management - Research to Practice®
Description: A workshop to assist growers to identify the factors contributing to wine grape quality and how these might be manipulated
Cost: This course is costed at $444, but after subsidies provided by the NSW Government, NSW producers pay only $230.
Course aims: To demonstrate the factors that contribute to wine grape quality and investigate how they can be measured, monitored and manipulated
Learning outcomes:
  • Describe specifications for wine grape quality
  • Explain vine balance
  • Understand and describe wine grape berry development
  • Explain the impacts of sugar, acidity and pH and discuss how these may be manipulated in the vineyard
  • Discuss quality-related substances found in grapes and suggest how management practices can influence their expression
  • Discuss colour and aroma in grapes and suggest how management strategies may be employed in order to influence thse and help meet product specifications
Length: Two and a half days
Course program/structure: Day 1
  • Introduction
  • Specifications for wine grape quality
  • Vine balance
  • Berry development
  • Sugar, acidity and pH

Day 2

  • Revision
  • Quality related substances
  • Colour
  • Aroma
  • Quality action plan

Day 3

  • Feedback from evaluation
  • Review of action plans
  • How to monitor crucial factors for bunch quality
Resources and method of delivery: Participants receive a course manual.

This course is mainly delivered indoors.
Accreditation: This is an industry-based non accredited course.

This course was developed by the Grape and Wine Research Development Corporation.

Upcoming dates

There are currently no registered dates for this course. Please register your interest using the link below.

Contact

MRSC Short Course enquiry officer
Ph: 1800 628 422
or 02 6951 2775
Fax: 02 6951 2620
mrsc@dpi.nsw.gov.au

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