Botrytis cinerea

So you've got to be able to exchange that air as much as possible.

You keep that humidity down, you're really going to reduce botrytis or gray mold.

Gray mold is the disease name.

Botrytis is the genus.

So we tend to...

Transpose those names and that's okay.

Sometimes I just say Botrytis gray mold for anybody who knows one and not the other.

But as your flowers become large and dense, you've got a microclimate inside that cola.

Everything's just dried out.

They haven't had any Botrytis, and they're just hoping that come October, there'll be a bit of humidity, and the Botrytis will develop on the grapes, the 25% of grapes they've got left, which is quite a story.

There was a couple of other estates.

These are all estates in Bom, in the Bom area of Sauternes.

It does make dry and sweet wines, but sort of the most famous one are these Botrytise Semillons.

So when we say the word Botrytise, Botrytis cinerea is a mould that grows on grapes in really, really humid conditions.

So Mont Balazac is sort of facing onto the curve of the river there.

It gets really heavy mist, which basically means that the humidity in these vineyards is... you know, pretty close to 100% for a large portion of the year.

Researchers also observed higher concentrations of several defense-related compounds, including flavanols, flavanols, and pisciids, although these differences were not statistically significant.

Most importantly, when Botrytis susceptibility was tested, the biodynamically treated berries showed a significant reduction in susceptibility.

Carbon dioxide is what gives traditional method sparkling wines their pressure, bubbles and much of their sensory character.

But researchers say CO2 behaviour in the bottle is far more complicated than it might appear.

At that time, RAST testing was relatively new in the United States as a method of testing for allergies.

And lo and behold, I found out that I was allergic to Botrytis mold.

Botrytis mold is the mold that's used to make wine grapes shrivel and make them sweeter.

All the Sauternes wines are made with Botrytis mold.

It's the noble rot of Bordeaux.

Now, at the time, I happened to be the head of a wine club, and I was keeping the chapter's wine collection in my house.