International personalities from the wine research industry in Geisenheim

During his stay, Prof. Admas also gave a lecture to the occasion of "Campus aktiv" on "Properties of tannin and other phenolics in grapes and wine" in a completely crowded Gerd-Erbslöh auditorium. Doug Adams is one of the most well-known wine-researchers in this area. He has brought a lot of insight on the determination of tannins and its characteristics in terms of quality and its influence by viticultural and cellar-economic methods.

Shortly afterwards, Prof. Markus Herderich from the Australian Wine Research Institute, AWRI, Adelaide, Australia visited the research institute to learn about possible research cooperations. He, too, gave a lecture about wine-aroma research at the AWRI, which met a lot of interest on the side of scientists as well as students of the research institute.

Markus Herderich has a PhD in food chemistry from the University in Würzburg and has been working for the AWRI since 2001. Originally he had gone to Adelaide as the director of the so-called "tannin project", however, today he is manager of the whole AWRI-research group. His personal research interests are the wine analytics with another spectrum of research projects of aromas and phenolics as well as metabolomics, biosynthesis and bio-transformation of wine ingredients. He has also been associated Professor at the University of Adelaide since 2001. (aw-yoopress)