Brian C. Clark

http://wine.wsu.edu/

Brian C. Clark is PR/Communications Coordinator for CAHNRS/WSU Extension Marketing & News Services at Washington State University. He is also chief editor of Voice of the Vine, a publication by the Viticulture and Enology department of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences.

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Posts by Brian C. Clark:

Finish Your Wine: WSU Researchers Explore White Wine Finish and Consumer Preferences

11 Jul 2012 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning&Home Box 1

Food science, said Emily Goodstein, was “the perfect marriage” between two things she really loves: food and science. “Few people know that food science exists, but it impacts everybody, every day.” Goodstein... Read More »

New Research Busts Tannin Additions Myth

07 Feb 2012 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning&Home Box 2

If you’re using tannin additions in your red winemaking process, you may well be wasting your money, according to recently published research by Washington State University enologist Jim Harbertson... Read More »

A (Very!) Brief History of Washington Wine

27 Jan 2011 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning&Vids

I’ve been running around the state trying to capture the stories of some of Washington’s wine industry pioneers. The video below is one I made for a recent WSU viticulture and enology program... Read More »

Disease Detectives Tackle the Mystery of the Fall Colors

04 Nov 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

WSU plant pathologist Naidu Rayapati and his colleagues are carefully unraveling the intricate biochemistry and molecular biology of grapevine leafroll disease. Grapevine leafroll is a complex viral disease... Read More »

Chinese Market Thirsty for Washington Wine

05 Oct 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

Economists at Washington State University are investigating ways to market Washington wine to the growing Chinese consumer market. The research consists of examining Chinese preferences for wine from... Read More »

Going Pro with Online Wine Science Education

02 Sep 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

When Higher Learning recently talked to students in the WSU professional certificate program in enology, we learned that they not only come from all over the country, they’re also making connections,... Read More »

Mapping Complexity in Washington Wine Country

02 Sep 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

As you read this, a graduate student in Prosser is sitting in front of his computer, for the umpteen millionth hour, bashing his head against the mapmaker’s perennial problem: the map can never be as... Read More »

The Mendoza Connection

19 Apr 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

Daniela Romero and the fabulous vista in a Mendozan vineyard. When Daniela Romero heard Washington State University’s Markus Keller talking about irrigation during grape ripening, her curiosity... Read More »

The Fine Details: The Ability to Blend Art and Science Helps Make Great Wines

12 Apr 2010 in Blog&Bloggers&Higher Learning

Carolyn Ross explains the fine details of sensory science to a WSU food science student. For more information about food science at WSU, please visit www.sfs.wsu.edu. When sipping a glass of a fine... Read More »

A Pinch of This, a Dash of That

22 Dec 2009 in Blog&Higher Learning

The Importance of Understanding Micronutrients in Grapes By Brian Charles Clark wine.wsu.edu When humans don’t get enough zinc, we can get sick with cancer and suffer immune-system dysfunction. The same... Read More »