Perhaps the single most impactful and devastating series of events from the 2017 Napa vintage were October’s wine country fires. As the final presenter of the 2017 Napa Vintage Report, Dr. Eric Hervé, PhD. of ETS Laboratories, presented on his latest work, on smoke taint studies carried out by the […]
We are wrapping up the summary of the 2017 Vintage report with the last session focussing on Phenolic extraction presented by Federico Casassa. Overview of phenolic extraction into red wines: a cellular perspective Continuing on the theme of fruit ripening and fruit maturity from our previous article, the Vintage Report’s […]
Continuing with the 2017 Napa Vintage Report presentation summaries, today’s article is focused on winegrape phenology with Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, and ripening dynamics with Nicolas Bernard. Modeling the future of winegrape phenology As the second scientific speaker following the keynote address at the Napa Vintage Report, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic […]
Returning for its second year, the Sonoma Vintage Report is happening March 7 at the Vintner’s Inn in Santa Rosa. This will be an excellent symposium to reflect on the previous year’s growing season and connect to the region’s brightest minds in viticulture and enology. The Sonoma Vintage Report will […]
Throughout the Vintage Report, Thibaut Scholasch, PhD, co-Founder and VP of Research and Development at Fruition Sciences, highlighted data trends during the 2017 growing season via transitional talks between the Vintage Report’s various speakers. He placed the day’s speakers and topics within the context of the growing season, and shared […]
The 2017 Napa Vintage Report kicked off with Gregory V. Jones PhD., Director of Wine Education and professor and research climatologist in the Department of Environmental Studies at Linfield College, presenting on the state of the North American climate. According to the observations, the vintage was marked by 2017 being the […]
The goal of the swiss study presented by Dr Zufferey was to investigate the impact of water stress on vine hydraulics, berry composition and wine quality. Context: how well can Pinot Noir sustain drought conditions ? Combined effect of climatic trends associated with vineyard topography can lead to severe drought […]
In this blog we discuss an overview of the different comparative studies involving biodynamic vs organic vs. conventional farming. Results presented by Dr. Stoll focus on what we have learnt from multiple studies comparing 3 different farming practices: Organic, Biodynamic and Conventional? Earlier results were discussed here in our Wine […]
Mark Anderson, Director of the Vintage Report recently sat down with the Viticulture Blog’s Vincent Sauton to discuss the upcoming Napa Vintage Report and how the conference shapes into the context of the greater wine industry. Vincent Sauton: Can you start off by describing what is the Vintage Report? […]
Minutes from the Giesco The XXIth giesco conference took place in Mendoza between November 6 and November 10th, 2017. The 4 days meeting gathered international scientists to discuss advances in the field of viticulture. We would like to share some of the topics discussed during the 2017 edition. Today we summarize some of the talks […]
