Articles selection: veraison and environmental challenges, Part 1

🍇 Veraison and environmental challenges, Part 1🌡️

We have selected several articles that cover essential topics for winegrowers during this key time of the year. 

Discover a selection of 4 articles from the IVES Technical Review, on veraison and environmental challenges. This first part focuses on aromatic maturity and vine water status.

Veraison is the beginning of berry ripening, a stage that determines the aromatic maturity of the wines, which influences their typicity. This stage depends on environmental conditions, such as the water status of the vines, air temperature, etc.

However, with climate change, maintaining control over these conditions is becoming increasingly difficult.

These four articles underline the importance of closely monitoring the water status of vines and the phenological stages of the plant.

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 1. Detailing ripening phenological stages: discrepancies, usefulness and proposal
Authors: Pascal Marty

2. Aromatic ripeness may be the type of maturity that impacts red wine typicity the most. Part I: the aromas involved in aromatic ripeness
Authors: Cornelis van Leeuwen, Jean-Christophe Barbe, Justine Garbay, Mark Gowdy, Georgia Lytra, Marc Plantevin, Alexandre Pons, Cécile Thibon, Stéphanie Marchand

3. Aromatic ripeness may be the type of maturity that impacts red wine typicity the most. Part II: terroir factors and management practices affecting aromatic ripeness
Authors: Cornelis van Leeuwen, Jean-Christophe Barbe, Justine Garbay, Mark Gowdy, Georgia Lytra, Marc Plantevin, Alexandre Pons, Cécile Thibon, Stéphanie Marchand

4. A few words on grapevine leaf water potentia
Authors: Alain Deloire, Anne Pellegrino, Suzy Rogiers

🌐 They are freely available in 6 languages: English, Français, Deutsch, Español, Italiano, Português.