Precision Viticulture for the vegetative-productive balance control, the soil protection and the adaptation to climate change
Increasing wine farms competitiveness through the implementation of precision farming techniques
Testing news techniques for facing climate changes effects in several wine districts,
Introducing innovation management protocols for matching enological targets and protecting local wine typicity
Boost the economically sustainable soil management techniques able to promote productivity and hydrological slope stability
Testing new wine stabilization techniques that are effective in maintaining freshness of taste.
Testing different soil management techniques in order to increase resilience of steep slope vineyards to heavy rains and long drought period.
Testing late winter pruning in order to postpone sprouting, avoiding spring frost damages and delaying fruit ripening for an increased freshness in grapes and wines.
Analysing vineyard spatial variability in order to assess the relationships existing between plant vigor and basal-bud fruitfulness in cv. Croatina towards higher productivity.
"Both areas where the experiments will be conducted have the necessity to increase their competitiveness with respect to other wine districts and therefore to improve vineyard practices thanks to the “Viticulture 4.0” implementation.
Oltrepò Pavese district shows a high erosion and landslides risk, due to an important presence of lithotypes susceptible to slope instability and steep slopes, with potential organic substance and qualitative/quantitative production losses. Moreover, Croatina, the most cultivated red variety in the area, suffers from a low basal bud fruitfulness making it unsuitable to short pruning and sensitive to alternate bearing patterns.
Franciacorta has an enological vocation of traditional method sparkling wine. The suitable variety for this type of vinification are particularly affected by the global warming effects that anticipate the vegetative cycle, increasing the late frost damages and increase the risk to reach ripening with inadequate acidity level, especially malic acid. This problem can not be solved anticipating the harvest because the phenolic and aromatic composition of the grape might be sufficient. Moreover the emergency irrigation introduced to counteract the negative effect of climate change might cause losses, both quantitative and qualitative, if not appropriately used. "
Implementing new protocols using both agronomic knowledge and data from remote and proximal sensing in order to develop decision support systems (DSS) based on plant vigor. The aim of this DSS is to optimize resource use and maximize productions economic and enviromental sustinability.
Writing guidelline on best agronomic practices in steeply sloping vineyards in order to:
Reduce risk of erosion and landslide with a probable loss of organic fertility and, ultimately, of productive and qualitative potential
Maintain soil biodiversity and its biological quality
Increase resilience of vineyards to heavy rains and long drought periods
Writing guidelines on manage of Croatina grape variety in order to increase in the fertility of the basal knots or, at least, increase in the productivity of a long fruited head which, in the basal portion, is always lower and/or variable. Individuation of the correct management strategy permit to have production more constant in quality and quantity.
Writing guidelines on the 4.0 irrigation management in order to increase the resilience of vine to long drought periods. These guidelines define the best irrigation practice (timing and water volume) and introduce a multifunction use of the irrigation systems (for example in order to increase resilience of the vineyard to high temperature stress). This is an important solution for traditional viticulture districts in Lombardy in light of climate change.
"Testing a winter pruning that provides, regardless of the type of pruning adopted (long Guyot or short on permanent cordon) a particularly late winter pruning period that has a dual and important purpose:
- post-sprouting of about 15-20 days, i.e. a period that is long and therefore able to ""affect"" the probability of incurring in late freeze damage
- to be able to extend this delay, or part of it, to the ripening stage, thus making it possible to take advantage of a period of the year that is normally cooler than the central summer months. This last objective is particularly important in the case of sparkling or sparkling wine making."
Testing innovative winemaking strategy responding to climate change challenges and to the increasing competitiveness of wine market.
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