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 The
International Office of the Vine and Wine based in France this week
honored Kenneth Fugelsang, California State University, Fresno’s
acclaimed enology professor and award-winning winemaster, with its
prestigious Prix de l’OIV 2007 award.
On Tuesday, Elisabeth Berry, Minister Counsellor for Agriculture of the
US Embassy in Paris, accepted the award for Fugelsang and co-author
Charles Edwards, a Washington State University professor. Both had
planned to travel to Paris to receive the award in person but were
unable to go due to transportation labor problems under way there.
The prestigious award is for their recent text, “Wine Microbiology –
Practical Applications and Procedures,” published by Springer-Life
Sciences this year.
Fugelsang and Edwards are only the second Americans to receive the award
in enology, and the third in enology and viticulture for the twenty-plus
years that this award has been given. (Previous American winners also
involved Fresno State: Professor Emeritus Vincent Petrucci and Dr.
Carter Clary, former research scientist at the Viticulture and Enology
Research Center at Fresno State).
The actual award is expected to arrive in Fresno in the next week or so.
This is the advance press release issued by Springer-Life:
Springer book Wine Microbiology wins oenology award from the
International Organisation of Vine and Wine Heidelberg / Paris,
23 October 2007
Wine Microbiology – Practical Applications and Procedures,
published by Springer, has won the 2007 International Organisation of
Vine and Wine (OIV) Written Works Award in the Oenology category. The
award will be presented on October 23, 2007, in Paris, France.
Now in its second edition, Wine Microbiology seeks to address the series
of challenges for winemaking staff from the vineyard to shipment of the
bottled product. It is co-authored by Charles G. Edwards of Washington
State University, Pullman, WA, USA and Kenneth C. Fugelsang of
California State University, Fresno, CA, USA.
The introductory narrative of the book is designed to be an overview,
from the wine microbiologist’s point of view, of those critical
junctures in the process that are of concern in wine quality as well as
intervention and control programs to address them. The second edition
builds upon the foundation of its highly successful predecessor with
emphasis on modern molecular methods. It has been revised and updated
with recent data and conclusions in all chapters.
Every year, an OIV Prize Jury selects the best works published over the
past two previous years which are then evaluated by a panel of
specialists in the categories of viticulture, oenology, viti/viniculture
economy, history, literature and fine arts, medicine and hygiene of
wine, monographs and specialized studies. This year, the Prize Jury is
chaired by Frantisek Lipka, a diplomat, poet and writer and current
Slovakian ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg.
Springer (www.springer.com) is the
second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and
medicine (STM) sector and the largest publisher of STM books. Springer
is part of Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's leading
suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. The group publishes
over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the
largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in over
20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some 5,000 employees.
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