69th Winter Conference of the Austrian Ecosocial Forum – Wine Industry Conference on February 2nd, 2022

The 69th Winter Conference of the Ecosocial Forum will take place from January 27th to February 3rd, 2022. With this year's general theme "Future thanks to origin? In the field of tension between global markets and regional supply" [...]

PIWI – an idea whose time has come?

Hybrid grapes used to be treated with disdain by the wine industry. Now German enthusiasm for new varieties of resistant varieties European moves against [...]

WHAT'S IN THE WINE?

... or the mystery of fermentation

Source: Swiss Magazine for Fruit and Viticulture (SZOW)

Alcoholic fermentation has been known to man for thousands of years. But what is behind it only became apparent in the last few years [...]

ETH Zurich viticulture survey 2022 for Swiss

Dear winemakers

We are pleased that you are taking part in this important survey. The survey focuses on your current and future assessments of viticulture in Switzerland. the [...]

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines

Jacopo Mazzeo DDecember 14, 2021
The decision is part of a broader review of previous regulations that [...]

New and robust grape varieties for the Rheingau

AGAINST PESTS AND FUNGI: FROM OLIVER BOCK [...]

Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses

Significance

Increasing diversity within crops may be a powerful way to reduce agricultural declines from climate change. As such, it has garnered increasing attention, especially in documenting within-crop diversity through different [...]

A look into the past...

100 years of viticulture in the southwest

Vines, wine and winegrowers shape the culture and landscape in the south-west. Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg are the home countries of German wine. In consciousness [...]

SITEVI 2021: Under the sign of climate change and sustainability

SITEVI, the largest wine and fruit growing fair in the world, in Montpellier (F). Despite the threat of corona, thousands of visitors insisted on going to the [...]

Practitioner days at the organic winery Roland and Karin Lenz in Uesslingen

On December 7th and 8th, 2021, the practical days took place at the winery of Roland and Karin Lenz in Uesslingen TG. For the first time PIWI CH was in charge of the implementation [...]

January 2022

... or the mystery of fermentation

100 years of viticulture in the southwest