This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...

Now Cantu and his team at the viticulture and enology department have discovered how noble rot impacts grape metabolism, and their findings could have a larger impact on flavor development in ...

Some say the sweetest juice comes from the ugliest fruit and for one Hawke’s Bay winegrowing family it is more than just a ...

“Noble rot” is just a nickname for Botrytis cinerea, a humidity-loving fruit fungus that causes grapes to shrivel and dehydrate, concentrating flavors. It sounds ugly (and grapes with botrytis ...

(The phrase noble rot refers to a fungus deliberately injected into some types of grapes to make the resulting wine much sweeter. Keeling adapted it, saying, “We just loved the contrast of the ...

Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese made from noble rot grapes, and Eiswine (ice wine) are rare and magnificent wines. Here you can, in exceptional cases, have up to 300 grams of sugar per litre.

While grey rot aggressively attacks the grapes, splitting the skins and causing spoilage, noble rot is slower. Rather than destroying the grape, it punctures tiny holes in the grape skin.