The effects of climate change are becoming more and more evident year by year, from the drought of 2022 to the hailstorms of 2023, to the alternating rainfall and high temperatures in 2024. How might the climate evolve in the coming years? What countermeasures can be taken?
SISOVI, which stands for Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Strategies and Business Models in the Wine Sector, wants to answer these questions. As a matter of fact, thanks to the development of a predictive model of the evolution of the climate (rainfall and temperature), it aims to identify in advance the areas that could present a greater degree of risk and, at the same time, the agronomic practices to cope with these negative effects, with the objective of safeguarding the production of Prosecco from a qualitative point of view.
The project, conceived and coordinated by CREA (Viticulture and Oenology Research Centre) and the Prosecco DOC Consortium, financed through the Cascata iNest (Interconnected Northeast Innovation Ecosystem, funded by NextGeneration EU) with a contribution of EUR 80,951, will run until 2025.
Planned actions:
- historical analysis of the climate in the Denomination territory
- analysis of the organoleptic characteristics of the grapes
- comparison and evaluation of agronomic practices in relation to different climate data
Expected results:
- to delineate the areas most at risk of climatic evolution
- to share with the production chain ad hoc vineyard management indications in relation to one’s own area
For further information write to ricerca@consorzioprosecco.it
Project funded by NextGeneration EU
