Understanding the climatic drivers of vintage variability is essential for interpreting wine typicity under climate change, as climate strongly influences grape composition and wine quality.
The most notable effects of global warming on grapevine response include an earlier phenological timeline, increased sugar concentration in grapes, and decreased acidity.
Climate change is driving the wine industry to re-evaluate the appropriate use of rootstocks. The French network of vine rootstock experiments, established by research and technical institutes,
Rootstocks are key to sustaining yield, wine style, and vineyard resilience under increasing climatic variability.
Wine producers in Switzerland face the dual challenge of high production costs and increasing competition from inexpensive imported wines.
More than 40% of the Rioja Alavesa vineyards have an average slope higher than 10%, making them susceptible to erosion.
In recent decades the Mediterranean Basin has been experiencing a sustained increase in temperatures and an irregularity in the distribution of rainfall that increases the probability of the occurrence of periods of intense drought.
Exogenous applications of plant growth regulators are valuable tools to modulate berry ripening and to explore the roles of phytohormones in controlling plant developmental processes.
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) performance in Mediterranean wine regions is strongly influenced by atmospheric variables that shape the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and ultimately contribute to biophysical terroir expression.
For VIVEROS VILLANUEVA (VV), it is vitally important to have grafted plants capable of adapting to the changing climatic and agronomic conditions faced by the wine sector.
In the Beaujolais and Savoie vineyards, climate change led to earlier phenological stages, more frequent episodes of elevated temperatures, and increased vine water deficit.
Climate warming is advancing grapevine phenology and shifting ripening toward hotter periods, challenging the preservation of wine typicity in temperate regions (van Leeuwen & Darriet, 2016).
Stable isotopes of carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) provide valuable integrative indicators of grapevine water status (Gaudillère et al., 2002; van Leeuwen et al., 2023) and nitrogen metabolism (Santesteban et al., 2015, (Santesteban et al., 2024).
Global warming profoundly affects terrestrial ecosystems, through e.g., increased severity and duration of heatwave–drought compound events.
Preserving woody crop cuttings in cold storage rooms is critical to maintain their physiological viability and ensure optimal field performance upon transplanting. However, the effect of temperature on the cutting's metabolic activity during storage, and subsequent transplanting success and growth, remains unknown.