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Over the last few years, New Zealand is becoming a premium wine with great production of Sauvignon Blanc for its great and famous acid that in the early harvest are about 14 grams of litre and normal for about 11 grams of litre. And the soil has a great fertility, where producers push the plant to a high production with more than 10 kilograms per plant and with high production per hectare talk about 23 tonnes. Especially when talk about New Zealand talking about Sauvignon Blanc is having great standards in the territory of New Zealand about 72%. Sauvignon blanc is acknowledged for its high aromatic quality, with the presence of methoxypyrazines and thiols, the two most important thiols that have been related are 3MH and 3MHA with the greatest presence capsicum (bell pepper) and gooseberry characters through lush passion fruit and tropical fruit overtones, other notes include fresh cut grass, tomato stalks, grapefruit or limes. The New Zealand wine industry has a target of $2 billion of exports by 2020. In the vintage 2016, the value of exports lifted 10% to just under $1.6 billion, the 21st consecutive year export value has grown (New Zealand, Winegrowers, 2017).

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Serughetti, Alessandro
Alessandro Serughetti, born in Palermo on 02/08/1992, graduated in 2015 in Viticulture and Oenology in Marsala. In 2017 he obtained the Master´s Degree in Viticulture and Oenological Sciences in Turin, studying for his second academic year in Portugal, obtaining the double degree in Master of Science in Viticulture and Enology.

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