IVES annual meeting 2025
The 9th annual meeting of the International Viticulture and Enology Society (IVES) will take place in the Bordeaux wine region, France, from February 4 to 7 2025.
- Day 1 – 4/02/2025: Technical visits of wineries and wine tastings.
- Day 2 – 5/02/2025: IVES General Assembly, key figures and editorial board meetings (live and remote).
- Day 3 – 6/02/2025: IVES Science meeting with cutting-edge conferences focused on technical topics of interest to professionals.
- Day 4 – 7/02/2025: Technical visits of wineries and wine tastings.
PHOTOS
Detailed program
4 February 2025 – Technical visits of wineries and wine tastings
Day 1 will be dedicated to optional technical visits on the right bank of the Gironde estuary (Saint-Émilion). Participants will be able to visit wineries and explore the production processes and R&D projects.
📆 Schedule and transport:
- 9 am: 🚌 bus departure from the Hôtel Kyriad Bordeaux Sud (Villenave d’Ornon)
- 10 am: visit of Château Cheval Blanc
- 12:30 pm: lunch,
- 2 pm: visit of Château Canon
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Bus return at the Hôtel Kyriad Bordeaux Sud (Estimated time of arrival: 6 pm)
- Dinner: free time
5 February 2025 – IVES General Assembly (live and 🎥 remote) and editorial board meetings
Day 2 will feature the General Assembly of IVES at the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV) in Villenave-d’Ornon. The assembly will start with a presentation of the key figures related to the association’s activities and financial status. This will be followed by an update on the editorial activities of the three journals (OENO One, IVES Technical Reviews and the IVES Conference Series platform). In the afternoon, the editorial committees of OENO One and IVES Technical Reviews will gather for a special session to discuss the future of the journals, share insights, and brainstorm new directions. Open discussions will allow participants to exchange ideas on editorial strategies. Participants will also be able to take part by videoconference (please register).
📆 Schedule and transport:
- 8:30 am: welcome coffee
- 9 am: general assembly
- 10:45 am: key figures and challenges
- 12:15: lunch buffet
- 2 pm: editorial board meetings
- 4 pm: 🚌 bus departure from Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV) to the Relais de Margaux Hôtel
- Dinner and night at the Relais de Margaux Hôtel
6 February 2025 – IVES Science meeting
Day 3 will be the IVES Science Meeting held at Château Duhart-Milon, dedicated to IVES private and institutional partners. Presentations will focus on recent research published in IVES journals, with a strong emphasis on practical applications for professionals.
Session 0
SESSION 1 | VITICULTURE - chaired by Cornelis van Leeuwen
1. Epigenetics: an innovative lever for grapevine breeding in times of climatic changes.
By Margot Berger | INRAE, UMR1287 EGFV, Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin, Villenave d’Ornon, France.
2. Cooling the berries, protecting the vines: techniques for managing grapevines during periods of extreme heat.
By Alena Wilson | University of Torino, Alba, Torino, Italy.
3. Rootstocks and climate change: adding up means learning faster.
By Gonzaga Santesteban | Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
4. OENO One young scientist award: The role of rootstock and its genetic background in plant mineral status. By Marine Morel | EGFV, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, INRAE, ISVV, Villenave-d’Ornon, France.
SESSION 2 | ENOLOGY - chaired by Pierre-Louis Teissedre
1. What does the concept of natural wine evoke in the minds and senses of tasters? Effect of the level of expertise.
By Jordi Ballester | Centre des sciences du goût et de l’alimentation, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon, France and María-Pilar Sáenz-Navajas | Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y el Vino (ICVV) (CSIC-UR-GR), La Rioja, Spain.
2. Application of non-Saccharomyces yeasts in peculiar winemaking, sparkling and sweet wines: biological acidification, prise de mousse, aroma profile. Two cases of study.
By Raffaele Guzzon | Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro di Trasferimento Tecnologico, San Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy.
3. New insights about sensory contribution of grape stems during winemaking: role of astilbin, a sweet polyphenol.
By Axel Marchal | University of Bordeaux, UMR 1366 Oenologie, Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin, Villenave d’Ornon, France.
📆 Schedule and transport:
- 8 am: 🚌 bus departure from the Relais de Margaux Hôtel to Château Duhart-Milon
- 8:30 am: welcome coffee
- 9 am: viticulture session
- 11:15 am: coffee break
- 11:30 am: visit of the cellars
- 12:30 pm: lunch
- 2:30 pm: OENO One young scientist award ceremony
- 3 pm: enology session
- 5 pm: tasting of IVES partners’ wines
- 8 pm: dinner at the Relais de Margaux Hotel
🎥 The conferences will be recorded and available afterwards.
7 February 2025 – Technical visits of wineries and wine tastings (optional)
Day 4 will offer another optional technical visit and wine tasting session, this time on the left bank of the Gironde estuary. Like the first day, participants will be invited to visit a winery or vineyard, with a focus on innovative production methods and new trends in winemaking.
📆 Schedule and transport:
- 🚌 8 am: bus departure from the Relais de Margaux Hôtel
- 8:45 am : visit of Château Latour
- 12:15 pm: lunch
- 2 pm: visit of Château Cos d’Estournel
- Bus return at the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (Villenave d’Ornon) around 5 pm.
The bus can make a stop at the airport en route.
REGISTRATION AND HOTELS
Registration is open until 31 October 2024 via the registration link sent by e-mail. This event is a private meeting, dedicated to IVES members, partners, and editorial board members. However, if you would like to have more information, please feel free to contact Julien Dumercq (✉️ Email).
You will find below a suggestion of hotels. ⚠️ Please note that participants are responsible for booking their own accommodation.
- 3 and 4 February:
- Hôtel Kyriad Bordeaux Sud (Villenave d’Ornon) – 18 minutes walking from the ISVV. ⚠️ To book a room and benefit from a negotiated fare, please email or call +33(0)5.56.04.64.64 and mention that you will attend the IVES annual meeting.
- Best Hotel Bordeaux Sud
- B&B HOTEL Bordeaux Sud
- 5 and 6 February: Relais de Margaux (Margaux). ⚠️ To book a room and benefit from a negotiated fare, please fill in and send this form back at Relais de Margaux to the following email address:
For members of the editorial committees, a financial contribution of up to €200 will be available to help cover transportation and accommodation costs (upon presentation of original receipts).
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