a wordBrix
Sugar in the juice, as a percentage by weight. Pickers read it off a refractometer in the row, and it is the number most arguments about picking dates are conducted in — usually alongside acid and pH, which matter as much.
Root. Named for Adolf Brix, the nineteenth-century German scientist who refined the scale Tradition
Facts
| kind | vineyard |
|---|---|
| region | California, Oregon |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
the vinePinot noirA grape that can hit sugar before its stems and skins are ready.practiceHand harvestThe decision the number feeds into.
Sources
- Winemaking · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.