This work was focused on determination of mobility of mercury and its content in materials from each part of the wine production process. The aim of this work was to establish the most suitable analytical method for determination and evaluation of changes in content of mercury during the production process. Samples of soil, biomass, vine wood, vine leaves, berries, grapes, rough wine and cider sediment of red wine and also four liquid samples of white wine were analyzed. All the samples originated from the area of Malé Žernoseky and Rudoltice nad Bílinou, white wine samples were collected in Chrámce u Mostu in the northern part of the Czech Republic. Analyzer AMA 254 was used for determination of mercury in solid samples and liquid samples had to be prearranged by PSA analyzer. This analytical approach was not so sufficient and mercury from liquid samples had to be captured by gold-coated amalgamator in first step and then analyzed by AMA 254. Obtained results confirmed interception of mercury mostly in leaves and in the grapes peelings. The grapes from Rudoltice contained 0,0022 mg/kg in dry mass and further processed wine grapes contained 0,0068 mg/kg in dry mass. The lowest content of mercury was in cider and completed wine contained less mercury then the rough wine. Unfiltrated cider from Chrámce has...

The building, combining the production of wine, accommodation and restaurant is surrounded by vineyards overlooking the Novomlýnské reservoir and Palava Hills. Part of the proposal are too small constructions in the landscape, which offers its users an added value in the perception of the cultural landscape. The basic idea itself winery is an intersection that connects the four routes, each of which is determined by another user.

Winery building design of a high architectural and functional qualities.

Winery building design of a high architectural and functional qualities.

Grape-derived aroma and flavor precursors exist partially as non-volatile, sugar-bound glycosides. Hydrolysis of these compounds may modify sensory attributes and potentially enhance wine quality. In the first study, four levels of shoot thinning (control, 20, 25, and 30 shoots per meter) with and without basal leaf removal (2-4 leaves per shoot) were established on mid-wire (90 cm), bilateral cordon-trained, mature Cabernet Sauvignon (Vitis vinifera L.) grapevines in eastern Virginia in 1996 to determine the effects on grape chemistry, glycoconjugates, and conjugate fractions. Reduced shoot density generally resulted in higher berry weight and lower soluble solids (°Brix) at each sampling date. Titratable acidity and pH were generally unaffected by shoot thinning. The 25 shoots per meter treatment displayed the greatest rate of increase in total, red-free, and phenolic-free glycoconjugates, expressed as glycosides (μmol).. Leaf removal resulted in increased pH, total phenolics, and total anthocyanins at each sampling date and a higher concentration of total, red-free, and phenolic-free glycosides. In a second study, three crop levels [high (6.4 and 5.3 kg/vine), medium (5.1 and 4.9 kg/vine), and low (3.2 and 2.6 kg/vine) ] were established on mature Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines during the 1995 and 1997 seasons, respectively. Cluster thinning of vines trained to a mid-wire (90cm), bilateral cordon-system was performed by hand three weeks post-bloom to determine the effects on grape glycoconjugates and conjugate fractions (expressed as glycosyl-glucose). In 1995, reduced crop level resulted in higher soluble solids concentration, pH, and total and red-free glycosides but did not affect berry weight or titratable acidity. In 1997, the reduced crop level treatment had higher berry weight and lower soluble solids, sugar per berry, and anthocyanins compared with the high treatment throughout the sampling period. The low treatment had the highest concentration of total, red-free, and phenolic-free glycosides per gram of fresh fruit weight on the last sampling date and the highest total, red-free, and phenolic-free glycosides per gram of fresh fruit weight when compared at similar soluble solids concentrations. Duo-trio significance testing resulted in no sensory differences among the treatments in 1997. In a third study, Pinot noir (Vitis vinifera L.) wines were inoculated with one of six genetically different strains of Brettanomyces intermedius (Ave, M, 216, Vin 1, Vin 4, and Vin5). Wines stored sur lie and those racked immediately following the completion of secondary fermentation were analyzed to determine the influence of B. intermedius strains on total, red-free, and phenolic-free glycoside concentrations (estimated by the analysis of glycosyl-glucose), and on selected free volatiles. Sur lie wines inoculated with strain Vin 4 and racked wines inoculated with Vin 4 and Vin 5 had the lowest total glycoside concentration. Hydrolysis of red-free glycosides appeared greatest in sur lie wines inoculated with Vin 4 and racked wines inoculated with Vin 4 and Vin 5. Wines stored sur lie that were inoculated with M and Vin 1 and racked wines inoculated with Vin 1, Vin 4, and Vin 5 had the lowest concentration of phenolic-free glycosides. Wines were analyzed for volatile compounds known to be produced by Brettanomyces spp. Inoculated wines were found to have detectable concentrations of ethyl-2-methylbutyrate, isoamyl alcohol, ethyldecanoate, isovaleric acid, guaiacol, 2-pheylethanol, 4-ethylguaiacol and 4-ethylphenol. There were significant differences in the concentrations of these compounds among strains. Duo-trio testing demonstrated sensory differences between the control and all inoculated wines. Differences were also found between wines inoculated with strains Ave and Vin 5, strains M and 216, and strains M and Vin 4. / Master of Science

Cette étude porte sur les différentes constructions du monde vitivinicole en Languedoc-Roussillon, des années 1860 à nos jours. Elle a pour objectif l’étude de leur place et impact dans le paysage languedocien. Une partie de la recherche porte sur les constructions privées, qu’elles soient d’habitation ou d’exploitation. L’analyse des bâtiments coopératifsvinicoles se veut plus exhaustive : elle est tournée vers les caves et les distilleries. La réalisation d’un corpus de ces structures, qu’elles soient privées ou communautaires, a permis d’en analyser l’évolution typologique et architecturale. La réflexion s’axe principalement sur les nécessités de la création d’un réseau coopératif vinicole, les formes et conditions de son développement ainsi que sur la mise en place des organismes de tutelle. Sa répartition, territoriale comme chronologique, a été analysée à l’échelle d’une région, avec les caves coopératives de la Gironde comme point de comparaison. Les principaux maîtres d’oeuvre des réseaux ont également été répertoriés, leurs oeuvres énumérées et leur vocabulaire architectural, étudié. Enfin, l’analyse typologique et architecturale de ces bâtiments du monde vitivinicole, tant privés que communautaires, ainsi que leur actualité en prise avec une restructuration sévère du réseau coopératif, amène à se questionner sur leur valeur historique et symbolique. Il s’agit donc désormais d’évaluer les moyens d’insérer ce riche héritage viticole dans le patrimoine régional, d’en assurer la protection et la mise en valeur. / This study concerns the different constructions used in the making of wine in Languedoc-Roussillon from the 1860s to the present day. It aims at studying their place and impact in ‘Languedocian’ landscape. Part of the research focuses on private buildings, whether residential or commercial. The analysis of cooperative winery buildings is more exhaustive and oriented towards wine cellars and distilleries. The implementation of a corpus of these private or community structures has been done in order to present the evolution and architectural typology. The study is centered mainly on the necessities of creating a wine cooperative network, forms and conditions of its development as well as the establishment of regulatory bodies.Distribution through the period was analyzed across an area with cooperatives of the Gironde as a point of comparison. The main contractor networks have also been identified, and their works listed and there has also been a focus on architectural vocabulary. Finally, a cluster analysis and the architecture of these buildings connected to the wine industry, both private and community, as well as their current engagement with a severe restructuring of the cooperative network, raises the question of their historical and symbolic value. It is time to assess how to ensure this rich viticultural heritage in the region's history is preserved and indeed enhanced.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 99-101. / by Amy Faye Philipson. / M.C.P.

Thesis (MScConsEcol (Conservation Ecology and Entomology)--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / In the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, where wine grape production and biodiversity conservation are of major importance, innovative management of the landscape is necessary to integrate the two activities. Alternative farming, such as organic and biodynamic farming, focuses on the preservation of biological processes in agroecosystems with the aim of increasing the sustainability of these sytems. It has been demonstrated in other regions that alternative farming can enhance biodiversity. This study assessed the potential of alternative vineyard management to conserve biodiversity, in particular epigaeic arthropod diversity, relative to the more widespread integrated vineyard management in the CFR. A hierarchical design was used, consisting of three localities, with three land-uses nested within each locality. The land-uses were alternative vineyards, integrated vineyards and natural vegetation sites as reference habitats. Sampling was done in June and October 2006 using pitfall traps. Nested ANOVAs were used to test for differences in abundance and species richness of the total assemblages, functional feeding guilds and selected generalized predatory taxa. Assemblage patterns were assessed using hierarchical agglomerative clustering and non-metric multidimensional scaling. Canonical correspondence analyses were used to evaluate the effects of environmental variables, management practices and landscape variables on community composition. Alternative vineyards supported a significantly higher overall arthropod abundance and species richness, more diverse predatory, saprophagous, phytophagous and omnivorous guilds, as well as more abundant and speciose spider and rove beetle assemblages than the integrated vineyards. Integrated vineyards harboured a greater abundance of predators, whereas results for nectarivores, wood borers, parasitoids and carabid beetles were variable. The differences could be explained in part by higher non-crop vegetation complexity and reduced management intensity of the alternative vineyards. Community composition was influenced by a combination of management practices, the surrounding landscape and geographic locality, which highlighted the interdependence of the cultivated land and its surroundings.

<p>How did rock and roll, the best music for worshipping the devil, become the finest music for worshipping God? This study narrates the import of rock music into church sanctuaries across America via the rise of contemporary worship music (CWM). While white evangelicals derided rock n' roll as the "devil's music" in the 1950s, it slowly made its way into their churches and beyond over the next fifty years, emerging as a multi-million dollar industry by the twenty-first century.</p><p>This study is a cultural history of CWM, chronicling the rise of rock music in the worship life of American Christians. Pulling from several different primary and secondary sources, I argue that three main motivations fueled the rise of CWM in America: the desire to reach the lost, to commune in emotional intimacy with God, and to grow the flock. These three motivations evolved among different actors and movements at different times. In the 1970s, the Jesus People movement anchored in Southern California, adopted the music of the counterculture to attract hippies to church. In the early 1980s, the Vineyard Fellowship combined rock forms with lyrics that spoke of God in the second person in order to facilitate intimate worship with the divine. In the late 1980s, the church growth movement embraced CWM as a tool to attract disaffected baby boomers back to church. By the 1990s, these three motivations had begun to energize an entire industry built around the merger between rock and worship.</p> / Dissertation

I devoted my thesis to the development of the Prague viticulture since 1848 and I show that natural and social conditions largely influenced it. At the very beginning I deal with how grape cultivation spread and how winemaking developed in the Czech lands. As for the natural conditions, the most significant part focuses on climate and the climate change that influenced not only viticulture. As for the social conditions, it was the law that had the biggest impact on winemaking. I deal with the Czech viticulture right sources and analyse the most important legal documents which determined the viticulture development. One of the most noteworthy periods of the viticulture near Prague was the reign of Charles IV. I inform the reader about his plan to plant grapes extensively and not only do I examine its impact, but I also comment on his intentions and the reasons that made him do so. The example of Dejvice illustrates how winemaking influenced the nature of Prague surroundings in many ways. To support this, I give examples of the development of some vineyards in Dejvice that show the particular impact of the mentioned historical events. I also try to find the answer why and how the viticulture in Dejvice vanished.