by Sophie Penavayre | 14 Nov 2017 | Adviclim
In the Loire Valley, the growing season of 2017 has been particularly illustrative of the critical role of climate in growing grapes and making wine. After an initial warm period in the beginning of spring that lead to an early onset of vegetative growth, a severe...
by Sophie Penavayre | 13 Nov 2017 | Adviclim
This vintage (2017) will be remembered as the earliest one to date in Rioja and Navarra wine regions. Season advancement was majorly caused by warm temperatures from March until early July. Temperatures in July and August were not far from the average, September being...
by Sophie Penavayre | 13 Nov 2017 | Adviclim
A warmer & sunnier than average March leading to slightly earlier Budburst for most varieties, followed by a cooler second half of April. A devastating air frost on the night of the 26th April, destroyed up to 80% of new growth, with the highest proportion of...
by Sophie Penavayre | 3 Nov 2017 | Adviclim
Bordeaux was hit by spring frost by the end of April 2017. Four nights with temperatures below 0°C succeeded between April 20 and April 28, among which most damage on the vines was recorded during the morning of April 27. In general, the risk of spring frost is not...
by Sophie Penavayre | 30 Oct 2017 | Adviclim
Soil4Wine is a LIFE+ project aimed at improving soil management in vineyard ecosystem and at defining tools and methodologies to support soil’s functions and ecosystem services. Outcomes of the actions proposed in demonstration farms located in protected areas, will...
by Sophie Penavayre | 19 Sep 2017 | Adviclim
They result from a geostatistical model using topographic variables and temperature data from the Adviclim sensor networks (Le Roux et al., 2017). These spatialized bioclimatic indices, computed over the grapevine cycle or only one month before harvest, are useful to...