Nomacorc To Co-Host Wine And Oxygen Workshop At Awitc And Winetech Expo

Nomacorc, the world’s leading producer of alternative wine closures, will co-host a Wine and Oxygen Workshop in collaboration with the O2inWines Association at the 14th Annual AWITC and WineTech Expo.

The technical session, held on Saturday, July 3, will feature the latest research findings on the role of oxygen in wine and will provide producers and professionals with practical applications for the cellar and at bottling.

The Wine and Oxygen Workshop includes a series of interactive sessions directed by leading researchers and practitioners from the Australian Wine

Research Institute (AWRI), Nomacorc and Lallemand on topics including:

Measuring oxygen in wines
The influence of wine composition
The influence of yeast and GHS
Oxygen control at bottling
OTR and post-bottling chemistry’s affect on wine sensory attributes
Tastings: How to measure the impact of oxygen on final wine quality

Select content from the session will also be posted on www.twitter.com/Nomacorc and www.facebook.com/pages/Nomacorc/325695508616.

Separately, Nomacorc will showcase its new NomaSense equipment – winner of the prestigious SITEVI 2009 Gold Medal for Innovation – as well as the company’s portfolio of coextruded closure products at the WineTech Expo.

Demonstrations will be held at Nomacorc’s stand, number 305, during show hours July 5-7, 2010.

For more information and to view a video about the NomaSense oxygen analyzer, visit www.nomacorc.com.