Good teamwork!

Good teamwork!

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Good teamwork!

The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) has partnered with a number of top wine companies on research and development. One theme, for example, will be global warming, which affects all wine countries worldwide. After all, how does climate change affect grape growth and wine flavour?

What does wine do in space?

Normally, a wine matures in the cellar of the winery, in the barrel or in the bottle - or after purchase at your home, of course. On the ground, we pretty much know what to expect in terms of flavour change when, over the years, oxygen makes very slow contact with the wine. But what happens outside the atmosphere? To investigate this, bottles of wine were sent into space.

Mussel season

The Romans were already picking grapes in the Netherlands, but mussel fishing is less old: it has been happening in our coastal waters for over 150 years. The breeding grounds are the Oosterschelde and the Wadden Sea. Together with the German Wadden Sea, from where the shellfish are also sold through the Dutch Mussel Auction in Yerseke, that is 7,000 hectares. A mega vineyard that would be like, for example, the area of wine cooperative Señorío de Iniesta near Valencia, with 1,200 farmers. Which wine goes with mussels?

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