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Science - Agriculture / olives | | Italian term or phrase: indice di invaiatura | the term véraison seems to be used exclusively for the invaiatura of grapes, and its difficult to get an elegant sound out of "turning colour" and "index". There must be a term in olive cultures, but I cannot find it.
"Utilizzando l’indice di invaiatura è possibile stabilire in modo sufficientemente corretto quando sia giunto il momento in cui la quantità di olio che è possibile ottenere è massima, senza che si abbia un decadimento delle caratteristiche organolettiche.." |
|   Anthony GreenKudoZ activityQuestions: 327 (none open) ( 1 without valid answers) ( 8 closed without grading) Answers: 354
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| | skin colour index | Explanation:
Hi Anthony,
If you have "index" in your term, this implies a scale so you don't need to mention "change" explicity ;-)
"Veraison" is not possible since, apart from the fact that it is used almost exclusively for grapes in English, it refers to the moment when the berries acquire colour, and not to the process of colour change as a whole.
"Ripeness" is too general a concept and in any case is usually measured against other parameters, such as sugar content, but not skin colour.
HTH
Giles |
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| Reference: veraison/véraison OR ripening index
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Hiya there
Both terms are used in olive- as well as grape-growing, as already guessed by you and Marco.
Have a look at these:
www.world-food.net/scientficjournal/2008/issue1/pdf/food/f1...
... cultivar chosen, the environmental growing conditions of the orchard, the olive ripening index, condition of the fruit and their processing methods.
www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnr=356_75
... when the olives were harvested at veraison (ripening index 2)...
www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnr=791_117
... olive ripening (veraison stage) and/or meteorological conditions (night frost, early winter), so in the four years different olive maturity index resulted.
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Ciao!
Well, Giles is THE authority when it comes to wine-making, so you can't go wrong with him.
G'day from sunny (for a change) Piedmont, south of the Langhe...
Barbara
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Asker: Thanks for the input. In the end I was convinced by the great Giles' comment "it refers to the moment when the berries acquire colour, and not to the process of colour change as a whole."
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