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Fugelsang, California State University, Fresno’s acclaimed enology
professor and award-winning winemaster, has again earned worldwide
recognition by winning the 2007 Prix de l’OIV from the International
Office of the Vine and Wine.
The prestigious award is for
his recent text, “Wine Microbiology – Practical Applications and
Procedures,” co-authored by Professor Charles Edwards of Washington
State University.
Known throughout the industry as OIV, the International Organisation of
Vine and Wine is an intergovernmental scientific and technical body with
43 member nations based in Paris, France. It has overseen the world’s
grape and wine industry for more than 80 years.
Each year the OIV empanels a jury of 12 recognized academicians and
research scientists to identify the best works published in the past two
years. Winning selections are judged to be “original, pertinent, and
with an international scope for the vine and wine sector.”
“The OIV plays a major role in the regulation of the world wine market
from grape growing to soil management and winemaking, and the standards
that go along with it,” Fugelsang said
The 2007 awards were announced in June at the General Assembly in
Budapest, Hungary. Edwards will accept the award Oct. 23 in Paris on
behalf of the two authors.
Their book, published by Springer-Life Sciences in 2007, is a
comprehensive examination of the microbiology of grape wine, juice and
concentrate. It addresses real world problems such as characterization
of enumeration of yeast, bacteria and molds common to juice and wine
environments and their impact on wine quality and stability.
“This book is a useful resource for winemakers, lab personnel,
researchers, and enology students,” said Dr. Robert Wample, chair of the
Department of Viticulture and Enology at Fresno State. “We are enthused
that Fresno State’s winemaster continues to receive worldwide acclaim
for his work in enology. And this is further validation of the quality
of our viticulture and enology academic program.”
Fugelsang and Edwards are only the second Americans to receive the award
in enology, and the third in enology and viticulture for the 20-plus
years that this award has been given. In 2005, Fresno State Professor
Emeritus Vincent Petrucci and Dr. Carter Clary, former research
scientist at the Viticulture and Enology Research Center at Fresno
State, received the award in the viticulture category for their book, “A
Treatise On Raisin Production, Processing And Marketing,” published by
Malcolm Media in Clovis.
Fugelsang joined the university in 1972, and also manages Fresno State’s
20,000-case commercial Fresno State Winery, where his students have
received more than 200 awards in major wine competitions since its
inception in 1997. He serves as co-adviser for the Enology Club.
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