Article: The French connection: Jean-Michel Boursiquot.

Article: Grapevine geneticist Meredith is retiring. (News Briefs: ...
Wines & Vines;  February 1, 2003 ;     632 words ...Dr. Carole Meredith, who pioneered the use of DNA fingerprinting to determine grapevine varieties and their origins, retired Jan. 4 from the UC ...

Article: In vino veritas; Genetics; Grapevine genetics.(Science and ...
The Economist (US);  February 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... s vineyards can be as murky as shaken vintage port. Carole Meredith of the University of California, Davis, has dedicated ... other well known varieties. A collaboration with Jean-Michel Boursiquot, the curator of France's national grapevine-variety ...

Article: Return of the clones: ASEV's most comprehensive symposium since ...
Wines & Vines;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... quality in its current incarnation in the U.S." Jean-Michel Boursiquot ENTAV Agency, France ENTAV, or the National Technical ... material. Its scientific and technical manager is Jean-Michel Boursiquot. He will present "Recent Developments in French Clonal ...

Article: Is Carmenere Chile's best hope? Chile's winemakers weigh in.
Wines & Vines;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... became mixed in with Chile's Merlot vines, and growers later mistook it for a Merlot clone. French ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot set the record straight during a visit to Chile in 1994, when he identified the country's mysterious "Merlot clone ...

Article: The Independent Consumer: The vineyard's best-kept secret Chilean ...
The Independent - London;  January 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... where somehow it managed to lose its identity. That was until two French grape boffins called Claude Valat and Jean-Michel Boursiquot turned up like a couple of bad centimes and caused an almighty kerfuffle. Valat was first on the scene in the early 1990s ...

Article: If you only... drink one bottle of wine.(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 8, 2009 ;     685 words ... ... It wasn't until 1994, nearly 150 years after first Chilean 'merlots' were bottled, that French professor Jean-Michel Boursiquot confirmed that carmenere was alive and flourishing in Chile -- and more successfully than it ever had in Bordeaux. Historically ...

Article: Chile vs. Argentina, Round 2
The Washington Post;  October 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... variety was lost over time, and it came to be mistaken for a mutation of Merlot. It was identified in Chile by Jean-Michel Boursiquot, a grapevine expert from France, in 1994, and has been studied rigorously since then. Now vinified in a manner appropriate ...