Author Archives: Gary Pickering

Let’s Talk Wine

By Gary Pickering | Published: July 23, 2011
Nectar of the Gods — The Story of Ice Wine Ice wine is a late harvest wine produced from the juice of grapes that have been frozen on the vine and pressed while frozen. During pressing, the water is retained as ice crystals, so the resulting juice is highly concentrated in sugar and flavour compounds. [...]
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Talking Scents with Professor Gary Pickering

By Gary Pickering | Published: July 20, 2011
Our sense of smell is different from any of our other senses. Before we see, hear, touch, or feel something, the stimulus is processed through the part of our brain responsible for language, where we can associate a word with relative ease and identify the stimulus. Aroma is different. Aroma has been called the speechless [...]
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