Montreux hosted the Sélection des Vins Vaudois awards ceremony at the Grand Hôtel Suisse Majestic on July 3, 2023. The winners were announced with great enthusiasm, rewarding the passionate commitment of Vaud wine producers and their dedication to excellence.
La Cave de Genève
La Cave de Genève, a key player in the Swiss wine scene, has been organising various wine tourism activities for several years. We started with the harvest activity and, following interest from participants, we created the pruning and defoliation of the vine experiences.
Eight winemakers test the reusable bottle
They are from Vaud, passionate about their profession, and convinced that a system needs to be created to save glass and reduce sand extraction. Their project is called “Bottle back.”
Sip, Savour, Save: Grapes for Good Pairs Wine and Wildlife Conservation
Nestled in the picturesque region of Langhorne Creek just an hour from Adelaide, South Australia, a remarkable partnership has blossomed between six leading wine producers and Zoos South Australia (Zoos SA). Launched in November 2021, Grapes for Good is a visionary initiative that aims to support the conservation efforts underway at the nearby Monarto Safari Park. This unique collaboration not only fosters a deep sense of community and environmental stewardship but has also garnered recognition at the 2023 Best Of Wine Tourism Awards by the Great Wine Capitals Global Network.
Porto’s Climate Adaptation: Strategies and Success Stories
Porto is implementing its Municipal Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change since 2016. This plan outlined a comprehensive response to the impending climate threats, leveraging both traditional strategies and innovative approaches rooted in nature-based solutions.
Napa Valley: Leading Climate Mitigation in Wine Industry
Many agricultural and wine-growing communities, Napa Valley included, are concerned about the potential impact of climate change. Much media attention has been paid to the natural disasters Napa Valley has faced, but what gets less attention, is how Napa Valley and its residents, viticulturists, and vintners have been at the forefront of innovation in pioneering sustainable and climate-mitigating practices.
Climate change in Casablanca unites Business & Government
Wine entrepreneurs from the Casablanca Valley and the Government face the effects of climate change together by developing a Clean Production Agreement through which they seek to improve the productive management and environmental performance of companies.
GWC Launches International Research Grant
The Great Wine Capitals Global Network has unveiled an exciting initiative, the GWC International Research Grant, designed to enhance excellence and innovation in wine tourism research while addressing industry needs. The project will award two grants, each worth €7,500, to applicants who present outstanding academic research with significant practical implications in the field of wine tourism in the GWC regions.
Mendoza works on initiatives to address global warming
Climate change represents an urgent problem at a global level exerting its influence in all areas of humanity. The wine industry and the wine tourism sectors are no exception.
The analysis of specialists becomes essential for decision making. In this sense, we talked to Luis Coita Civit, agronomist working on several wine projects in Mendoza, to carry out an analysis of this matter, its impact on viticulture and the initiatives tending to cushion the impacts in Mendoza.
Excellent vintage for the Caves Ouvertes Vaudoises 2023
Over 80,000 visitors flocked to taste the latest vintages from the 250 winegrowers for the 13th edition of the Caves Ouvertes Vaudoises. The Office des Vins Vaudois is delighted with the success of this year’s event, with ticket sales exceeding those of pre-Covid years.
The Impact of Climate Change on Swiss Wine
The research race is on, in Switzerland as elsewhere, to clarify how abiotic factors affect plants’ phenology: we’re scrambling to learn precisely what happens to grapevines during their growing seasons when climate change causes interlinked problems due to shifts in temperature, water, solar radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration(1).
Climate change focus for Hawke’s Bay wine
As evidenced by the disastrous impact from the recent Cyclone Gabrielle, Hawke’s Bay (including it’s wine growing community) is seeing significant impacts from increased weather variability. A severe drought in 2020 followed by difficult (particularly wet) growing seasons through 2022 and 2023 have brought discussions on climate change further to the forefront.