Rain is usually treated as something of a nuisance for most producers. Strong, can lead to sudden drop of grape vines and split during the growth and precipitation increases chance to grow bacteria and fungi on grapes. Although some types of fungi, including the so-called noble rot, which is so widespread in Northern Europe in the manufacture of wine, are added as the taste of alcohol – many dangerous mushrooms.
New Zealand is a pity that the maritime climate means that the rain is almost a year warranty, probably with heavy rain in the summer because it’s winter. He created a major problem for producers of wine in the history of New Zealand, but in a certain region now uses rainfall to his advantage.
The Wairau Valley Marlborough region and has, on several occasions in the past, the operational activities for heavy rain drive, so that the difficult culture. Instead of letting this issue, began a producer of wine in this area, the production of wine from the rain.
Rain Wine is a return to the concept of the noble rot, also known as Botrytis cinerea, a fungus known to attack many bays necro topics. As mentioned above, is called the noble rot is a decisive factor in comfort and refinement of many wines in northern Europe – in Germany it was known as Edelfuade while in France as noble rot. The two types are rot fungus – Botrytis, and that is dangerous and leads to loss of yield and the noble rot, which is the culture of benefit.
Where is the question of the noble rot in New Zealand because it is scarce. The noble rot botrytis, often in wet and humid conditions and the need for relatively quick heat to soft – otherwise gray and certain damage to the crop. In New Zealand, this time of change, there is limited, again because of the maritime climate and prevailing. In Europe, the summer weather in summer is usually quickly replaced by warm temperatures – a return to normalcy, or near the noble rot, and can not be developed. But New Zealand continued to make wet weather, the ground pork for gray mold.
