GiESCO 2013 – Session 3: Mountain and hot regions viticulture

Missing plants (failed, dead or destroyed) in vineyards are an important issue affecting their productivity and quality.

Par les importantes recherches menées par les auteurs sur la sémantique et ceux effectués dans la Valtellina (Italie) et dans le Douro au Portugal sur les aspects techniques,

Fine wines in Brazil have been produced since the 80’s in many regions, like in the South, were the climate conditions are similar to the temperate zones found in the vineyards of the South Hemisphere

The Upper Douro Vineyard (ADV) passes on to this generation and most certainly to the following, the History of Men who worked this land and transformed it in his favour.

The wine region of Douro, in 2001 classified World Heritage by UNESCO, was the first to be demarcated and regulated in the world. We left here in very brief traces the main factors in the eighteenth century, led to this demarcation.

In the actual economic and social difficulty through the wine regions, we seek to explore the consequences of the existence of a recurrent structure in mountain areas: the cooperative.

Douro´s, the Port Wine Region can be characterized by having a Mountain Viticulture on hillsides with steep slopes and a hot climate.

The Douro Demarcated Region (DDR) is an extraordinary, living example of Mountain Viticulture in Hot Climates.

The mountain is lived by vinegrowers as a strong structural constraint. In the current context of climate change, where we look at the side of genetics, irrigation, andinnovation in cultural practices,

Sustainable Viticulture integrates together environmental criteria (soil protection, pollution reduction, local resources, water management and quality…), technical and economic criteria

The Alto Douro Wine Region, with an area of 24,600 ha, has been inscribed since 2001 in the List of World Heritage Sites as an evolutive and living cultural landscape, lying along the river Douro and its tributaries, with many deep valleys and steep slopes.

The Douro Wine Region has a long history of wine production across a diverse array of landscapes and climates

The GiESCO has produced within 38 years a contribution to the development of mountain Viticulture or steep slope Viticulture, concerning the environment, the techniques of canopy management, the social and economic aspects.

Viticulture and winemaking is an ancient activity in Douro Valley region which had experimented one first significant boost in the XII century by the monks from the Cister religious order and one second and more important expansion in the beginning of the XVIII century with the start of wine exportation for England.