Here we are starting a new year full of excitement! January 2022 brings From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate webinars back!
Save the
dates for the first three sessions on January 13, January 17 and January 20,
2022. Find more information and registration links as follows:
- Session 1: Impact of sustainable management systems on growth, yield, and fruit quality of grapevines
- Session 2: Vine Pruning in cool climate viticulture: principles and techniques for good pruning practices in prevention and management of trunk diseases
- Session 3: Identification of four distinct S. cerevisiae wine yeast populations from British Columbia’s Okanagan Wine Region
Here is
some extra information on these sessions for you to decide if you’d like to
join us:
Impact of sustainable management systems on growth, yield, and fruit
quality of grapevines
On January
13, at 12 pm (AST), Dr. Johanna
Döring from Geisenheim University (Germany) will be presenting. Dr. Johanna
Doring is a researcher involved in organic and biodynamic viticulture. She
published several peer-reviewed articles about the effects of organic and
biodynamic viticulture on biodiversity, plant growth, yield, and winegrape
quality. Her involvement with organic winemaking is even more extensive, as
together with her partner she runs a small winery in Geisenheim producing
organic Riesling.
In this
opportunity, Dr. Johanna Döring will be talking about the sustainable
management systems and the field trial established in Geisenheim University,
Germany, comparing integrated, organic, and biodynamic viticulture (Vitis
vinifera L. cv. Riesling). She will be presenting the results from this
long-term trial concerning growth, yield, and fruit quality of grapevines in
the different management systems. At the end of the session, there will be a
designated time for you to make your questions to our speaker regarding the
topic.
For registering to this session, click here.
If you have problems with the hyperlink try: https://perennia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__e4bnqYJSyazoUzWXVVZUg
Vine Pruning in cool climate viticulture: principles and techniques
for good pruning practices in prevention and management of trunk diseases
On January
17, at 12 pm (AST), Marco Simonit
will be presenting. He is a renowned Italian viticulturist who created a
worldwide utilized pruning method, called SIMONIT&SIRCH pruning method,
with his Pierpaolo Sirch. Marco Simonit with his team has been a consultant for
over 150 prestigious companies in 14 countries (Italy, Austria, Germany,
France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, USA, Argentina, Chile, South Africa,
Australia, UK and Hungary), assisting them in the vineyard for pruning and
training the staff of the companies.
Marco
Simonit has developed a technique which makes it possible to eliminate decayed
wood and cure Esca disease to save the vineyards without uprooting them. In
this opportunity, he will present on the principles and techniques for good
pruning practices in prevention and management of trunk diseases. He will also
talk about fine-tuned a vine pruning method based on four simple principles
that are applicable to all vine training systems, explaining the application
techniques in cool climates, with a look at the future perspectives and new
opportunities connected to climate change. At the end of the session, there
will be a designated time for you to make your questions to our speaker
regarding the topic.
For registering to this session, click here.
If you have problems with the hyperlink try: https://perennia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bu0SriNqSsO9P_7BTJ6Z9w
Identification of four distinct S. cerevisiae wine yeast
populations from British Columbia’s Okanagan Wine Region
On January
20, at 2 pm (AST), Dr. Vivien
Measday from University of British Columbia will be presenting. Dr. Vivien
Measday is the associate professor at the Wine Research Centre, Food Science,
Faculty of Land and Food Systems of UBC. Her research focuses on the study of
yeast populations associated with the vineyards of British Columbia’s Okanagan
Valley. They partner with wineries in the Okanagan Valley to perform
spontaneous fermentations and isolation of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae.
From 2013 to 2018, Dr. Vivien Measday and her team isolated S. cerevisiae strains from spontaneous wine grape fermentations carried out with both Okanagan Valley Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir grapes. In this opportunity, she will be talking about the four genetically distinct populations of wine yeast strains which they were able to identify, and among them only one of them is similar to the commercial wine strains. At the end of the session, there will be a designated time for you to make your questions to our speaker regarding the topic.
For registering to this session, click here.
If you have problems with the hyperlink try: https://perennia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hI2VS6NlSu6MNR-j2tFGXA
We are looking forward to seeing you joining us in these webinars!