By Beatrix Coetzee Grapevine cultivars display a great level of intra-species diversity in viticultural and oenological traits. Understanding this genetic diversity is an important step towards developing improved grapevine cultivars, but also for the conservation...
By Johan Burger In South Africa, as in other grape-growing areas, there is a newfound interest in old vines and vineyards, and the exceptional wines made from them. Wines produced from older vines are generally accepted as having more depth and complexity than...
Current Winetech funded project: This project aims to develop a method to increase the genetic diversity of Pinotage. Pinotage, South Africa’s locally bred cultivar, is considered the country’s flagship red cultivar, however very few clones are available to the...
Microvines were initially proposed as a plant model for genetics. The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of microvines for characterising grapevine vegetative and reproductive growth and development patterns in response to elevated temperatures....
