WINETECH Technical Yearbook 2021

FOREWORD

Knowledge transfer is one of Winetech’s four core functions. We use various platforms, channels and third parties to help us bring new knowledge to various industry stakeholders. One of these platforms is Winetech Technical in WineLand Magazine. Each month we publish technical articles related to viticulture, oenology and sustainability, as well as some more general articles in Afrikaans or English in the printed magazine. These articles also appear online, in English, on the WineLand website. At the end of each year we combine all the published articles in an easy to use and store interactive pdf document. Articles in this 2021 Winetech Technical Yearbook cover topics such as vineyard viruses, weevils, cultivar drought tolerance, grape breeding, pruning, smoke taint, varietal thiols, protein stability, copper in wine, yeast bio-protection and many more. We sincerely hope that the South African wine industry will continue to find the Winetech Technical Yearbook a useful resource with relevant information that can empower producers and winemakers to make informed decisions, and in doing so, to increase the profitability and sustainability of the industry as a whole.

Kind regards The Winetech Team

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