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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 ...
Sebastian Candiago, Simon Tscholl, Leonardo Bassani, Helder Fraga, Lukas Egarter Vigl
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. ...
Xavier Delpuech, Guilhem Pouxviel, Eric Cotteux, Adrien Verges, Jean-Paul Douzals
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 ...
Stéphane La Guerche, Mario Tomasoni, Ignacio Sanchez-Recarte, Pierre-Louis Teissedre, Riccardo Cotarella, Tatiana Svinartchuk, Jean-Claude Ruf
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 ...
Thomas Crestey, Bruno Tisseyre
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, ...
Thomas Crestey, Bruno Tisseyre
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 ...
Vasiliki Summerson, Claudia Gonzalez Viejo, Sigfredo Fuentes
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 ...
Xavier Delpuech, Henri Gorioux, Guilhem Pouxviel
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 ...
Adrien Vergès, Xavier Delpuech, Sébastien Codis, Olivier Naud, Jean-Paul Douzals, Elodie Trinquier, Xavier Ribeyrolles, Jean-François Bonicel, David Bastidon, Yoan Hudebine, Adrien Lienard
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