Gavin Duley
I am a student of oenology, botany, and TESOL. I am a postdoc in Oenology in northern Italy, and I also have a PhD in Oenology from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and an MPhil in Oenology from the University of Adelaide. My PhD thesis examined sustainable wine production in Südtirol, and my MPhil thesis looked at at the impact of climate on colour in Australian Pinot Noir wines and the use of metabolomic methods to characterise Australian Pinot Noir wines.
I love good food and good wine — especially the food and wine of the Burgundy region. I also love travel. I am a keen photographer, and some of my photos can be seen here on this blog, over at my photo gallery, or on Instagram as @penguinoid. My home page is www.gavinduley.org, and wine tasting notes are mostly available via CellarTracker. My old (pre-2014) blog can be found at oldblog.wodewose.org, and my old photo gallery at oldgallery.wodewose.org.
I have also worked as edit scientific papers in a number of disciplines but am taking a break during my PhD. Please have a look at editbioscience.com for more details.
AI statement
This blog is 100% written by me, a person. I sometimes use generative AI (ChatGPT or Claude) to help collate information from numerous sources when writing a post, but everything is manually fact checked by me afterwards. I’ve also used it to help with rephrasing sentences or paragraphs when I’ve gotten stuck, but not to write posts or articles. Some illustrations are AI generated. Where this isn’t obvious, I will manually mark them as such.