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Jenise
FLDG Dishwasher
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
The Pacific Northest Westest
Tom Troiano wrote:Is this the same as the other fuckeliana from the other day?
David M. Bueker
Riesling Guru
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Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:52 am
Connecticut
Jenise wrote:Have to laugh: did not expect the words "very good" to follow "fruit cocktail finish".
Paul Winalski
Wok Wielder
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:16 pm
Merrimack, New Hampshire
TomHill wrote:On the back label, it stated that Botryotinia Fuckeliana is the spore that is responsible for botrytis cinerea, the noble rot, that creates such great dessert wines.
My immediate reaction is this is just the irreverent ChesterOsbourne jerking us around, managing to get a lewd term on his label and thumbing his nose at the labeling regulatory authorities.
Well..turns out that Google indicates ole Chester didn't make up this factoid. It is actually the name of that spore, named after a mycologist Karl Wilhelm Gottfried Fuckeliana.
Paul Winalski wrote:TomHill wrote:On the back label, it stated that Botryotinia Fuckeliana is the spore that is responsible for botrytis cinerea, the noble rot, that creates such great dessert wines.
My immediate reaction is this is just the irreverent ChesterOsbourne jerking us around, managing to get a lewd term on his label and thumbing his nose at the labeling regulatory authorities.
Well..turns out that Google indicates ole Chester didn't make up this factoid. It is actually the name of that spore, named after a mycologist Karl Wilhelm Gottfried Fuckeliana.
Most fungi have both an asexual stage and a sexual stage in their life cycles. These often appear very different, and so before modern Biology got the life cycles of fungi sorted out the two stages often were thought to be separate species. That is what we see here. The asexual stage of the fungus is the one responsible for noble rot, and historically has been called Botryotinia cinerea. The sexual stage has been called Botryotinia fuckeliana. Now that we know they are just two stages in the life of the same organism, modern science appears to be using B. fuckeliana as the species name. The term "botrytis cinerea" applies to the vine disease grey rot, which under the correct conditions can be noble rot.
Amusing that the winemaker used this to sneak a rude-sounding name onto the label. I wonder if he'll work in the German word Himmelfarts next?
-Paul W.
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