<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83401656497586851</id><updated>2011-07-07T20:10:03.937-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wall wine rack</title><subtitle type='html'>Designer of award winning French oak wine rack.  Crafted from reclaimed cabernet sauvignon wine barrel staves.  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The authors find the reduction affects every size&lt;br /&gt;category, shifting the size distribution towards smaller berries. As an example, most (70% in 1998, 73%&lt;br /&gt;in 1999) of the berries in normal and high irrigation vines belonged to the medium berry size categories &lt;a href="http://naparedwine.net"&gt;napa red wine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(comprised between 0.76 and 1.25 g). In the water deficit vines, most of the berries (85% in 1998, 97% in&lt;br /&gt;1999) belonged instead to the smaller size categories (0.51-1.25 g). What that means is that with water&lt;br /&gt;deficit, we can expect smaller berries in every category: the small get smaller and the large get somewhat&lt;br /&gt;smaller too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much smaller? If we were to compare two average clusters, one from the control vines and one&lt;br /&gt;from the deficit-irrigated vines of the study, the deficit cluster would generally weight about 12.5% less&lt;br /&gt;than the control cluster in 1998, and about 18.8% less than the control in 1999.&lt;br /&gt;· Indeed, the authors observed that the reduction of berry size due to the water deficit was greater in 1999&lt;br /&gt;than in 1998. They attributed this variation to higher pre-veraison temperatures in 1999, which in turn, &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;triggered more negative leaf water potentials earlier in the 1999 growing season. The leaf water potential&lt;br /&gt;graphs presented support this interpretation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· In this trial, the authors noted that it took a significant water deficit - enough to sustain a leaf water&lt;br /&gt;potential of –12.5 bars - to cause berry size to decrease. Both the control and the high irrigation treatments&lt;br /&gt;were able to reach this level but not to maintain it, and so only the lower irrigation treatment caused a&lt;br /&gt;consistent decrease in berry size.&lt;br /&gt;· Amounts of seed, flesh, and skin per berry and &lt;a href="http://kitchen-wine-racks.us"&gt;kitchen wine racks&lt;/a&gt; were all proportional to berry size. That is, larger berries&lt;br /&gt;have more of all of those components (“larger bags hold more”). Generally speaking, 5% of a berry&lt;br /&gt;weight is seed, 80% is flesh or pulp, and 15% is skin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additionally, the water deficit caused the proportion of these berry components to change. In what&lt;br /&gt;currency (skin, flesh or seed) does the berry preferentially pay for the loss of berry weight? The answer,&lt;br /&gt;as expected, is mainly in its flesh. But surprisingly, both seed and skin weights increased, rather than&lt;br /&gt;decreased, during sustained deficit irrigation. The increase in seed weight was due to one of two reasons, &lt;a href="http://seattlecountertops.us"&gt;Seattle countertops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;depending on berry size: 1) to an increase in seed size, for the small berry categories -these carry only one&lt;br /&gt;seed-, or 2) to an increase in the number of seeds, for larger berry categories –these carried anywhere&lt;br /&gt;from 1 to 2.5 seeds.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/83401656497586851-7873041686625381442?l=googlenumber1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/7873041686625381442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/7873041686625381442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://googlenumber1.blogspot.com/2010/08/kitchen-wine-racks-on-countertops-in.html' title='Kitchen wine racks on countertops in Seattle'/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07621092859463246073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83401656497586851.post-1219436258549218963</id><published>2010-07-30T16:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T16:26:32.732-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wine racks, concrete works, and napa red wines</title><content type='html'>Choose one to three categories for your thesis:&lt;br /&gt;paraduxx red wine napa white wine napa reds proprietary red wine napa proprietary red wine napa valley merlot red wine wine syrah quintessa wine screaming eagle wine &lt;a href="http://naparedwine.net"&gt;NAPA RED WINE&lt;/a&gt; caymus vineyards duckhorn merlot chateau montelena quintessa winery napa ramey wine cellars merlot vineyards opus one simi red wine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Sensory:The authors found that the wines from minimally-irrigated vines had the most fruity and the&lt;br /&gt;least vegetal attributes, whereas the wines from standard irrigation vines were the most&lt;br /&gt;vegetal and the least fruity. More specifically, the wines made from minimally irrigated vines were&lt;br /&gt;significantly higher in red/blackberry aroma, jam/cooked berry aroma, dried fruit/raisin aroma, and fruit&lt;br /&gt;by mouth than the wines from the treatments receiving either standard or double irrigation. &lt;a href="http://kitchen-wine-rack.us"&gt;Kitchen wine rack&lt;/a&gt;. The double -&lt;br /&gt;irrigated wines were perceived to be, by comparison, very low in both vegetal and fruity aromas, low in&lt;br /&gt;bitterness, and low in astringency. In other words, these wines behaved for most attributes as if they had&lt;br /&gt;Summary 8&lt;br /&gt;been diluted. The authors mention in the discussion that this agrees with a previous study that found that&lt;br /&gt;fruity wines were most often associated with vines grown on low water-holding-capacity soils, whereas&lt;br /&gt;vegetal wines were usually associated with high water-holding-capacity soils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Tannins: The standard irrigation wines were the highest in tannin concentration, measured using the&lt;br /&gt;Davis protein precipitation assay. This result matched the sensory panel’s higher astringency ratings of&lt;br /&gt;this wine.&lt;br /&gt;· Pyrazines: In contrast to tannin levels, the pyrazine concentrations did not follow the perceived vegetal&lt;br /&gt;aroma intensities. &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;Wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;. The authors suggest that, even if a high level of pyrazinee were present, some other&lt;br /&gt;compounds produced by the minimally-irrigated vines (such as esters, acetate esters, fatty acids, or&lt;br /&gt;norisoprenoids) might have enhanced fruity aromas that would have masked the vegetal ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· The authors discussed the possibility of whether treatment differences in grape maturity at harvest&lt;br /&gt;might have influenced the results. In their opinion, the sensory differences observed were likely not due to&lt;br /&gt;differences in sugar accumulation alone, given that an effort was made to harvest all treatments at a&lt;br /&gt;similar Brix. It is common in many viticultural trials to have to face the difficult choice of 1) trying to&lt;br /&gt;match Brix, or 2) trying to match picking date. The authors believe both approaches are valid, and&lt;br /&gt;mention the pros and cons of each &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The research presented confirms some things that winegrowers and winemakers have assumed for several&lt;br /&gt;years now. Difficult as the task seemed, the authors were able to address the sensory portion of the&lt;br /&gt;research in a rigorous and methodical fashion . This was critic al to the validity of their findings. Their&lt;br /&gt;results is the scientific proof that our beliefs were correct: if we want to emphasize fruity aromas and&lt;br /&gt;reduce the vegetal character of a wine, we need to start by practicing some level of deficit irrigation in the&lt;br /&gt;vineyard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Concrete Industry Management&lt;br /&gt;Program at California State&lt;br /&gt;University, Chico, is proud to announce&lt;br /&gt;their first graduates: Cyrus&lt;br /&gt;Dworak, Chad Christie, Kevin&lt;br /&gt;Albert, Gessel Balderrabano, Brant&lt;br /&gt;Guido, Frank Corzine, and Jeff&lt;br /&gt;Kelly. &lt;a href="http://seattlecountertops.us"&gt;Seattle countertops&lt;/a&gt; accompanying Tanya Komas&lt;br /&gt;on stage for graduation was&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Dirk Vanderloop, Professor&lt;br /&gt;Emeritus and true friend to the&lt;br /&gt;students and the program. Chairman&lt;br /&gt;of the Chico State CIM Patrons,&lt;br /&gt;Doug Guerrero, joined the&lt;br /&gt;celebration on graduation day and&lt;br /&gt;proudly honored the graduates by&lt;br /&gt;saying, "Most of the graduates&lt;br /&gt;have already found employment&lt;br /&gt;within the concrete industry, which&lt;br /&gt;is an excellent tribute to their worthiness,&lt;br /&gt;especially in these difficult&lt;br /&gt;times for the construction materials&lt;br /&gt;industry." We wish these fine&lt;br /&gt;young men and women the best of&lt;br /&gt;luck in their lives and careers and&lt;br /&gt;look forward to their continued&lt;br /&gt;involvement in the CIM program&lt;br /&gt;as future CIM patrons.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/83401656497586851-1219436258549218963?l=googlenumber1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/1219436258549218963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/1219436258549218963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://googlenumber1.blogspot.com/2010/07/wine-racks-concrete-works-and-napa-red.html' title='Wine racks, concrete works, and napa red wines'/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07621092859463246073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83401656497586851.post-1029606478133868219</id><published>2010-07-30T16:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T16:07:06.574-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Seattle countertops and wine racks</title><content type='html'>In January 2009, amid coverage by&lt;br /&gt;university and local media, University&lt;br /&gt;President Paul Zingg was presented&lt;br /&gt;with a Chico State CIM Patron&lt;br /&gt;contribution check that elevated&lt;br /&gt;the total contributions by local and&lt;br /&gt;national patrons since inception of&lt;br /&gt;the program to over $1 million. The&lt;br /&gt;program is doing extremely well and&lt;br /&gt;is performing at the rate planned&lt;br /&gt;when it was established in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;After three years, there are more than&lt;br /&gt;60 declared CIM students. The success&lt;br /&gt;to date is due in large part to the&lt;br /&gt;dedication of the active patrons with &lt;a href="http://seattlecountertops.us"&gt;Seattle countertops&lt;/a&gt; in&lt;br /&gt;providing donations to fund the&lt;br /&gt;startup of the program, providing&lt;br /&gt;significant time as guest lecturers,&lt;br /&gt;and providing continuous help to the&lt;br /&gt;faculty on course material and other&lt;br /&gt;matters related to development of the&lt;br /&gt;program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the sequel to a study on the effects of water deficits on berry size and berry components, by two of&lt;br /&gt;the authors. First we learned that sustained water deficits decreased berry size, and then that water deficits&lt;br /&gt;increased the amounts of seed and skin in berries of the same size. This second article addresses the next&lt;br /&gt;obvious question: How do water deficits affect the amount of tannins and anthocyanins in skins and seeds?&lt;br /&gt;The work is carried out in the same vineyard and with the same water treatments. The main results, of &lt;a href="http://kitchen-wine-racks.us"&gt;kitchen wine racks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;important practical consequences, follow here.&lt;br /&gt;· As in a previous work, before trying to learn how treatments affect anything else, the authors classified&lt;br /&gt;the berries into 6 categories based on size (&lt;0.50g, 0.51-0.75g, 0.76-1.00g, 1.01-1.25g, 1.26-1.50g,&lt;br /&gt;&gt;1.50g). This was done to separate the effects due to water deficit from the effects due to berry size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· The goal of this article was to study how 3 levels of irrigation (low, normal and high) affect 4 chemical&lt;br /&gt;parameters in the berry (soluble solids, seed tannin, skin tannin, and anthocyanins).&lt;br /&gt;· Normal irrigation was 32 liters/vine/week. Low irrigation was 32 liters/vine/week after leaf water&lt;br /&gt;potential reached –15 bars. High irrigation was 64 liters/vine/week.&lt;br /&gt;· The authors start out by looking at how water deficit affects soluble solids accumulation – or Brix. They&lt;br /&gt;find that “the larger the berry, the more sugar” rule stands true. But it must be emphasized that this is not &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the same as saying “the larger the berry, the greater the Brix”. This is due to the fact that when both the&lt;br /&gt;content (sugar) and the size of the container (berry) change at the same time, the container may remain&lt;br /&gt;equally full (concentration) or not, depending on the rate of change of each of the relative components. In&lt;br /&gt;fact, in this case, berry size increases more than the sugar content, so the overall effect is that sugar&lt;br /&gt;concentration, or degrees Brix, decreases in larger berries.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/83401656497586851-1029606478133868219?l=googlenumber1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/1029606478133868219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/1029606478133868219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://googlenumber1.blogspot.com/2010/07/seattle-countertops-and-wine-racks.html' title='Seattle countertops and wine racks'/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07621092859463246073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83401656497586851.post-4898004867033423114</id><published>2010-02-08T10:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T15:40:09.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Napa wine, absolute concrete, and wine racks</title><content type='html'>Choose one to three categories for your thesis:&lt;br /&gt;paraduxx red wine napa white wine napa reds proprietary red wine napa proprietary red wine napa valley merlot red wine wine syrah quintessa wine screaming eagle wine &lt;a href="http://naparedwine.net"&gt;NAPA RED WINE&lt;/a&gt; caymus vineyards duckhorn merlot chateau montelena quintessa winery napa ramey wine cellars merlot vineyards opus one simi red wine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Sensory:The authors found that the wines from minimally-irrigated vines had the most fruity and the&lt;br /&gt;least vegetal attributes, whereas the wines from standard irrigation vines were the most&lt;br /&gt;vegetal and the least fruity. More specifically, the wines made from minimally irrigated vines were&lt;br /&gt;significantly higher in red/blackberry aroma, jam/cooked berry aroma, dried fruit/raisin aroma, and fruit&lt;br /&gt;by mouth than the wines from the treatments receiving either standard or double irrigation. &lt;a href="http://kitchen-wine-racks.us"&gt;Kitchen wine rack&lt;/a&gt;. The double -&lt;br /&gt;irrigated wines were perceived to be, by comparison, very low in both vegetal and fruity aromas, low in&lt;br /&gt;bitterness, and low in astringency. In other words, these wines behaved for most attributes as if they had&lt;br /&gt;Summary 8&lt;br /&gt;been diluted. The authors mention in the discussion that this agrees with a previous study that found that&lt;br /&gt;fruity wines were most often associated with vines grown on low water-holding-capacity soils, whereas&lt;br /&gt;vegetal wines were usually associated with high water-holding-capacity soils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Tannins: The standard irrigation wines were the highest in tannin concentration, measured using the&lt;br /&gt;Davis protein precipitation assay. This result matched the sensory panel’s higher astringency ratings of&lt;br /&gt;this wine.&lt;br /&gt;· Pyrazines: In contrast to tannin levels, the pyrazine concentrations did not follow the perceived vegetal&lt;br /&gt;aroma intensities. &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;Wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;. The authors suggest that, even if a high level of pyrazinee were present, some other&lt;br /&gt;compounds produced by the minimally-irrigated vines (such as esters, acetate esters, fatty acids, or&lt;br /&gt;norisoprenoids) might have enhanced fruity aromas that would have masked the vegetal ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· The authors discussed the possibility of whether treatment differences in grape maturity at harvest&lt;br /&gt;might have influenced the results. In their opinion, the sensory differences observed were likely not due to&lt;br /&gt;differences in sugar accumulation alone, given that an effort was made to harvest all treatments at a&lt;br /&gt;similar Brix. It is common in many viticultural trials to have to face the difficult choice of 1) trying to&lt;br /&gt;match Brix, or 2) trying to match picking date. The authors believe both approaches are valid, and&lt;br /&gt;mention the pros and cons of each &lt;a href="http://wall-wine-rack.us"&gt;wall wine rack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The research presented confirms some things that winegrowers and winemakers have assumed for several&lt;br /&gt;years now. Difficult as the task seemed, the authors were able to address the sensory portion of the&lt;br /&gt;research in a rigorous and methodical fashion . This was critic al to the validity of their findings. Their&lt;br /&gt;results is the scientific proof that our beliefs were correct: if we want to emphasize fruity aromas and&lt;br /&gt;reduce the vegetal character of a wine, we need to start by practicing some level of deficit irrigation in the&lt;br /&gt;vineyard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Concrete Industry Management&lt;br /&gt;Program at California State&lt;br /&gt;University, Chico, is proud to announce&lt;br /&gt;their first graduates: Cyrus&lt;br /&gt;Dworak, Chad Christie, Kevin&lt;br /&gt;Albert, Gessel Balderrabano, Brant&lt;br /&gt;Guido, Frank Corzine, and Jeff&lt;br /&gt;Kelly. &lt;a href="http://seattlecountertops.us"&gt;Seattle countertops&lt;/a&gt; accompanying Tanya Komas&lt;br /&gt;on stage for graduation was&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Dirk Vanderloop, Professor&lt;br /&gt;Emeritus and true friend to the&lt;br /&gt;students and the program. Chairman&lt;br /&gt;of the Chico State CIM Patrons,&lt;br /&gt;Doug Guerrero, joined the&lt;br /&gt;celebration on graduation day and&lt;br /&gt;proudly honored the graduates by&lt;br /&gt;saying, "Most of the graduates&lt;br /&gt;have already found employment&lt;br /&gt;within the concrete industry, which&lt;br /&gt;is an excellent tribute to their worthiness,&lt;br /&gt;especially in these difficult&lt;br /&gt;times for the construction materials&lt;br /&gt;industry." We wish these fine&lt;br /&gt;young men and women the best of&lt;br /&gt;luck in their lives and careers and&lt;br /&gt;look forward to their continued&lt;br /&gt;involvement in the CIM program&lt;br /&gt;as future CIM patrons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rankingfirst.blog.com/"&gt;Ranking First&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/83401656497586851-4898004867033423114?l=googlenumber1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/4898004867033423114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/83401656497586851/posts/default/4898004867033423114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://googlenumber1.blogspot.com/2010/02/seo-happenings-winemaking-in-napa.html' title='Napa wine, absolute concrete, and wine racks'/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07621092859463246073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
