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26 November 2025
Consumer preferences in wine: traditional vs fungus-resistant varieties in Switzerland
A growing interest in sustainable viticulture has led to the development of fungus-resistant grape (FRG) varieties, but their acceptance by consumers remains uncertain. This study explores Swiss consumers’ perceptions of FRG ...
25 September 2025
How Context and National Identity Shape Perceptions of Canned Wine Consumers in Europe
Canned wine offers a convenient, portable, and sustainable alternative to glass bottles, yet it faces significant consumer resistance. Two recent studies explored how consumers are perceived when drinking canned wine in ...
16 January 2025
Winegrape similarities and concentrations: implications
In a previous article in this journal, we described the mixes of winegrape varieties across countries in terms of both similarities and concentrations. We showed that countries are becoming more similar in their mixes of ...
14 January 2025
Winegrape similarities and concentrations: A description
The aim of this article is to describe the mixes of winegrape varieties in the world’s main wine-producing countries. In doing so, we summarise a recent scientific journal article (Puga and Anderson 2023), in ...
13 November 2024
The climates of the world’s wine regions
The aim of this article is to describe the climates of the world’s wine regions and discuss implications of climate change for those regions. In doing so, we summarise a recent scientific journal article: Puga et ...
28 March 2024
Wine’s Belated Globalization, 1845 to 2022
This summarizes and updates an article originally published as Anderson and Pinilla (2022).Until the 1970s, wine was produced and consumed almost exclusively in the Mediterranean region and the nearby Levant. Today it is enjoyed in a much ...
26 March 2024
Varietal Distinctiveness of World’s Wine Regions: An Updated Empirical Picture
This summarizes and updates an article originally published as Anderson and Nelgen (2021) which is based on a freely available revised global database and ebook (Anderson and Nelgen, 2020a; Anderson and Nelgen, 2020b).
28 November 2023
Wine tourism: a showcase for the agroecological development of vineyards? Part 1
This study aims to link the environmental challenges faced by the wine sector with the wine tourism dynamics in winegrowing regions. It aims to understand how wine tourism can enhance and promote environmentally friendly actions and ...
28 November 2023
Wine tourism: a showcase for the agroecological development of vineyards? Part 2
This study aims to link the environmental challenges faced by the wine sector with the wine tourism dynamic in winegrowing regions. It aims to understand how wine tourism can enhance and promote environmentally friendly actions and ...
28 September 2023
Understanding consumers’ perceptions of smoke-affected wines
Smoke taint in grapes and wine is complicated. If a vineyard is exposed to smoke, there are a whole range of factors that determine whether or not the wine eventually made from those grapes will be smoke-affected and to what degree. While many ...
28 June 2023
An innovative interactive mapping tool to present research results: example of a terroir study in the context of climate change
Over the past decade, Story Map applications have been developed throughout the world under the impetus of software developers in the fields of visualization (Google Earth,
25 April 2023
CCAF: a framework to manage climate change adaptation for the wine sector
Due to the recently changing climate and the impacts from severe events (smoke taint, heatwaves, droughts, frost, hail and floods) there is an urgent need for effective tools to tackle multiple risks and ensure higher levels of resilience. The ...
25 November 2022
Harmonising regulatory information on wine protected designation of origin in Europe
Wine Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products are strictly regulated and therefore highly susceptible to changes in climatic, environmental and socioeconomic conditions. Analysing the impacts of such changes has so far been ...
4 November 2022
Evaluation of aerial drift during drone spraying of an artificial vineyard
Drones have many advantages over the helicopters that were used in steeply sloping vineyards before the ban on aerial spraying. They are cheaper, safer, quieter, more precise and smaller, allowing them to fly lower and thus limit aerial drift. ...
8 September 2022
Wine labelling with the list of ingredients: context, consumer’s perception and future challenges
Since 2011, Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (FIC) exempted alcoholic beverages above 1.2% abv from the mandatory list of ingredients and the nutrition declaration. In 2017, the European Commission ...
20 July 2022
The digital Mediterranean farm: 6 years’ experience of a model connected wine estate Part II: a project to form part of a successful digitization dynamic
The digital farm (Crestey and Tisseyre, 2020) is a working wine estate equipped with 15 latest-generation and regularly updated professional digital services. After 6 years of experimentation, the goal is to provide feedback to assess the ...
13 July 2022
The digital Mediterranean farm: 6 years’ experience of a model connected wine estate Part I: A project for training and cultural appropriation
The concept of a professional digital tool is often perceived as something vague and difficult to put into practice. The reasoning behind the digital Mediterranean farm (Crestey and Tisseyre, 2019, 2020) is that the viticultural profession, ...
2 March 2022
Non-destructive methods for assessing smoke-derived compounds
Wildfires are an increasing occurrence throughout the world (Summerson et al., 2020). Grapevine smoke exposure can result in wines characterized by unpalatable smoke aromas. Current chromatographic techniques to assess levels of ...
24 February 2022
Quality assessment of drone spraying in steeply sloping vineyards
Following the ban on aerial spraying in 2015, crop-protection spraying of steeply sloping vineyards is mainly carried out by workers on the ground, who are subject to arduous working conditions, increased risk of exposure to sprays, as well as ...
28 January 2022
The EoleDrift test bed: a new tool to help identify spraying techniques and practices to reduce drift in viticulture
The reduction of spray drift when applying crop-protection products is a major issue for all stakeholders in the viticultural sector (winegrowers, equipment manufacturers, agrochemical companies, public authorities, neighboring residents). To ...
25 November 2021
Sustainable viticulture: how to evaluate and record it on a wine estate
Sustainable viticulture is being developed to meet the challenges of current societal expectations. Numerous assessment tools have emerged in recent years. The IDEA method (Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles or Farm ...
24 March 2021
The future of the wine industry: overlapping insights from international leaders
Just as many other sectors, the wine industry has suffered these last months. In times of crisis, it is natural for us to plan for contingencies, to live day by day and hope for a better tomorrow. ‘To think about tomorrow’ was the theme that ...
12 November 2020
LIBS and XRF: two techniques for the rapid measurement of nutritional elements in the soils
The advent of portable analytical devices such as x-ray fluorescence spectrometry and laser induced plasma spectrometry, allows for practical and rapid tools to effectuate element measurements directly on the soils without advance sample ...
28 August 2020
Hydrogen or battery tractors: what potential for sustainable grape growing?
Capping greenhouse gas emissions and reducing air pollution on the farm challenges the place of the diesel tractor in future sustainable vineyards. Tractors are responsible for the largest share of all CO2 emissions at vineyard plot ...
24 July 2020
Recovery of olfactory capacity following a COVID-19 infection
The loss of the sense of smell related to COVID-19 is not irreversible. It appears to last between eight and nine days on average, but can go on for several weeks for some patients. In order to help with the optimal recovery of your sense of ...