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A I Perold's
A Treatise
on Viticulture
A I Perold (1880-1941) was South Africa's first Professor of Viticulture and Oenology. He dedicated himself to improving the quality of grapes for wine, brandy and the table. He studied wine and brandy production in Europe, imported more than 60 varieties to the Cape and bred new ones. Perold said this book “is intended to serve both the student and the practical grape-grower. There are in it technical passages that will appeal more to the student, e.g. the chapters dealing with the biology of the vine, its external and internal morphology, the theory of grafting. My remarks on the practice of viticulture, such as those dealing with the propagation, manuring and pruning of the vine, the production of table grapes for export, will, it is hoped, assist the practical grape-grower as well as the student.” This is a newly typeset reprint, not a photocopy. Text on the 712 pages have been aligned to match the original pagination so any external references to pages in the Treatise will be valid in this edition
Available in paperback and hardback editions. 712 pages

A Year in Paarl
with
A I Perold

Dr Perolds report on his Paarl experiments 1915 - 1916 reprinted with glossary, introduction and brief biography. Fascinating historical document on viticulture for wine and table grapes, wine and brandy making.

11 August 2024

Romantic Rhine & Moselle - Cochem

Day 7 – Sunday 11 August 2024

We arrived at the Moselle at around 09:00 and waited at the Moselle lock at Koblenz. It was 13:10 when we exited the lock and we moored at Cochem around 17:30.

In the morning we’d had a talk about upcoming FreeChoice excursions and we had to pick the ones we wanted to go on.

Steep vineyard at Winninger

Before dinner the restaurant manager presented a tasting in the lounge of four Moselle wines. He explained he’d bought them but hadn’t tasted them. He then read out some information about the Moselle wine region and tasting notes of the wines. He couldn’t pronounce some words and stumbled over others and it was clear he’d not written or previously read his script. The tasting was chaotic, with long queues to collect each glass of wine and dawdling to choose matching cheeses. It would have been better to for waiters to take trays of wines and cheeses around, and the tasting notes read before each wine was served.