Other topics: 2022
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 ...
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