Reuters: High-tech helps tradition to make Tokaj wine

The Hungarian tradition of plucking shriveled grapes, sometimes one-by-one, to make pricey, sweet white wine dates back centuries, but growers hope new technology will help them harvest the fruit at its rotten best, Reuter reports.

Tokaji Aszu wine, which retails in Britain for at least 20 pounds ($32) a bottle, is one of a handful of wines around the world made with fruit affected by “noble rot”, induced by the “Botrytis” fungus that shrivels the grapes and concentrates their sugar. Reuters underline, one of the big Tokaj estates already uses sensors to measure humidity, precipitation and moisture on the vine leaves, data that, along with weather forecasts, can help predict common grape diseases, calculating the best time to spray the vines.

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Source: http://uk.reuters.com/