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Issue 539 - November 2008
Contents
news
6 Peter Dry puts down the red pen
7 Grapegrower & Winemaker celebrates 45 years
11 Outlook 2008 confronts key issues in wine
grapegrowing
26 Wayne Pitt: Distribution and management of fungi associated with Botryosphaeria canker
36 Tony Proffitt and Erika Winter; Adoption of Precision Viticulture on the rise
42 Practical ways to protect your wines from heat stress this summer
tractors
46 Forum: Tractors and the grape trade
irrigation
50 Leo Quirk: Monitoring soil nutrient in irrigated Chardonnay vineyards
salinity management
53 Drought brings lessons on salinity
margaret river
56 Growers upbeat about Margaret River's prospects
59 Meet Margaret River's marvels
winemaking
64 Vincent Renouf: Alternative methods for utilisation of malolactic starters.
77 Simon Kinley: Tannin additions and micro-oxygenation: How do they work in partnership?
oak & barrels
90 Is bigger better when it all comes down to the barrel?
94 Richmond Grove automates barrel cleaning
analytical services
97 Greg Howell: How green is your wine laboratory?
australian wine business
103 Jeni Port: Consumer preference survey findings leave this wine writer cold
104 Global doom can't keep New Zealand down
105 Steven Cuellar and Dan Karnowsky: Price, promotion and profits
110 Peter Siegers: Winery sales and acquisitions: Beware the tax pitfalls on vineyards