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Wine is probably the oldest of all biotechnological products, and yet modern biotechnology offers a whole range of possibilities for its production. Every year approximately 27 billion litres of wine are made from grapes plucked from about 8 million hectares of vineyard. The “magic” world of wine is currently experiencing a real revolution with its transformation from a production-oriented to a market–oriented industry. And this revolution depends on innovations in the area of modern biotechnology! Some of these will be discussed in this chapter.
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Tramper, J., Zhu, Y. (2011). Wine: One of the Oldest Biotechnological Products. In: Modern Biotechnology. Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-725-7_6
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