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Issue: December 15, 2005
< Alice Nightingale, whose fascination with noble rot made her the driving force behind a unique style of California dessert wine, died on Sept. 30. She was 85. With her late husband, winemaker Myron Nightingale, Alice perfected a method for inoculating grapes in the lab with Botrytis cinerea—the mold that causes grapes to shrivel, concentrating their components—rather than letting the process happen naturally in the vineyard.
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