A Viticultural Terroir in Brazil: Change and continuity

Temperature fluctuations can significantly affect the chemical composition of wine and in turn its taste and aromas.

Monoterpenes are important aroma compounds in white wines. Many monoterpenes are chiral and the chiral forms have different aroma qualities.

This study analyses the actual situation regarding the legal protection of the vitivinicultural terroirs in Yamanashi Prefecture, the centre of Japanese wine industry with more than 150 years of wine-making tradition.

The growing demand for non-alcoholic beverages, driven by health-conscious consumers and shifting social norms, has positioned dealcoholized wines as a promising alternative in the global beverage industry (Akhtar et al., 2025, in press; Kakroo, 2024).

Brazil is one of the few countries where vineyards of Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera coexist in the same geographical spaces, due to complex processes of territorial occupation by successive waves of European settlers.