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Heading North: Viticulture’s Search for Cooler Climes
June 24 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Climate change pushes the boundaries of successful viticulture ever further north with new disease-resistant varieties leading the way. The cases in North America and Europe.
Agenda:
- “From 200 hectares to 5,000 in 50 years – the growth of British viticulture” by Stephen Skelton, Viticultural Consultant and Master of Wine
- “From Genes to Vines: Advancing disease-resistant wine grapes in the U.S.” by Luis Antonio Diaz Garcia, Dep. Of Viticolture and Enology, University of California Davis
- “Not just Icewine, young Canadian viticulture dreams big” by Simone Castellarin, Wine Research Centre | Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia
- “VCR, a century of innovation in viticulture” by Yuri Zambon, director VCR
- “The future of sustainable viticulture needs natural genes and biotech DNA” by Gabriele di Gaspero, Institute of Applied Genomics Udine
- “Resilience to climate change depends on the roots” by Gabriele Cola University of Milan.
