vWISE (Vine and Wine Innovation through Scientific Exchange)
Composed of recognized Vines and Wine Institutes, Universities and Industries from Europe and outside Europe with complementary competences spanning molecular biologists, eco-physiologists, oenologists, chemists, ecologists, modelers and wine marketing companies, coming from all the partner universities, will exchange skills and knowledge to propose innovative solutions.
The exchange program will allow them to progress towards key advances in vine sustainability and adaptation to new environmental conditions, and strengthen collaborative research between in different countries.
Our project is focused on three main objectives that will answer directly to the challenges stated above:
1: Adapting the vines, grapes and wines to climate change with the use of genetic vines resources
- To be able to obtain varietal vines with resistance to abiotic (temperature, hydric stress, …) and biotic stress with genetic characterization and selection
- To have a better knowledge of climate changes incidence on biosynthetic hormones pathway in vines to mitigate chemical composition and sensory changes for table grapes production
2: Safeguarding the wine production against authenticity issues by developing the biodiversity of yeast and bacteria
- To obtain different modelization of grapes and wines chemical composition and sensory profile to predict/enhance quality with innovative adapted winemaking and processes (microorganisms, new technology /processing aids or additives)
- To discriminate wine origin with new analytical methods and metabolomic data banks created to certify authenticity and to respond to consumer demand
- To control the risks of organoleptic deviations of wines linked to the presence of resistant microorganisms (Brettanomyces, …) with adapted detection and solution.
The vWISE consortium brings a unique richness, a diversity of scientific specialties and is focused on convergence and synergistic strategies. By using complementary techniques, planning and extending engagement across vine and wine sectors, partners are looking to implement model scales for water use, new vine varieties, and new approaches in microbiology. Specialists from the consortium will collect the data (metabolomics, sensor registration with modeling) needed to support solutions to anticipated climate changeinduced natural hazard scenarios.
The vWISE project will help to build a bridge between the partners and will frame long-range planning decisions associated with vine and wine hazards affected by climate change. The main outcomes of the project will be real-time advice and information, together with improved data collection and analysis at local levels, to support vine risk area populations, future land-use planning and infrastructure design. Without anticipatory hazard reduction plans and actions, risk for populations and assets that are exposed to vine and wines hazards will increase significantly in the coming decades.
