OIV Director General, Pau Roca, opened the conference "Wine, Environment & Society" on Tuesday 5th November2019 with an intervention focusing on "Global Environment Issues and Impact on Society".
Suzanne Mustacich, contributing editor for Wine Spectator, was the master of ceremonies in this conference, in which the OIV expert and the Organisation's ENVIRO group (Sustainable development and climate change) president, Professor Hans Schultz, (also president of Hochschule Geisenheim University), has participated by speaking about the "Impact of warming climate on the wine production".
The speaker's panel was completed by the Research Director of Bordeaux ISVV, INRA: Eric Giraud-Héraud, who spoke on "the impact of consumers requesting wineries to produce 'clean and green' wines".
A discussion panel followed their interventions with the participation of Jeremy Cukierman MW, Director of KEDGE Wine & Spirit Academy; Caroline Feely, Director of Château Feely; Caroline Frey, owner & Oenologist in Château La Lagune; Kim Forsberg, Sustainability Manager Vingruppen (Sweden), in the picture below.
New biological and organic modes of cultivation, such as more eco-friendly packaging and transports logistics, where part of the main points discussed.
About the great Wine Capitals Global Network
The Great Wine Capitals is a network of ten major global cities in both the northern and southern hemispheres, which share a key economic and cultural asset: their internationally renowned wine regions.
This network encompasses the so-called ‘Old’ and ‘New’ worlds of wine, and it aims to encourage travel, education and business exchanges between the prestigious wine regions of Adelaide, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lausanne, Mainz, Mendoza, Porto, San Francisco, Valparaiso and Verona.
Being founded in 1999, the Network has developed and introduced several projects, initiatives and programs with the objective of achieving excellence in tourism, business services and education within the global alliance of its renowned wine regions.
After praising the work of Jean-Luc Berger, who carried out this role with the greatest of skill in recent years, the CST was unanimous about a career path that meets the requirements of an essential position for the review of scientific and technical works submitted to the OIV Awards.
An engineer in oenology and viticulture (Changins School of Viticulture and Oenology in Switzerland), Richard Pfister was awarded the Swiss Union of Oenologists’ prize for his thesis on sensory analysis entitled ‘La méthodologie de l’olfaction en parfumerie : Possibilités d’application à l’analyse sensorielle des vins’ (The olfaction methodology in perfumery: possible applications for the sensory analysis of wine).
After working as an oenologist in Spain and several years dedicated to the creation of perfumes, he became an international consulting oenologist and sensory consultant. He has also taught at a number of prestigious wine schools (Changins School of Viticulture and Oenology in Switzerland, the Institute of Vine and Wine Science (ISVV) at the University of Bordeaux in France, and the AgroSup Dijon School of Agronomic Engineering, also in France).
In addition, Richard Pfister is an international expert wine judge, an OIV and VINOFED observer, a book reviewer for works submitted to the OIV Awards, an international speaker and trainer, the author of oenological articles for a number of French, Swiss and Italian journals, and, since 2006 he has been editor of Objectif (a Swiss magazine dedicated to viticulture, oenology and arboriculture).
He has been a Council member of the Fondation Internationale des Sciences et Culture de la Vigne et du Vin in Aigle, Switzerland, since 2013.
His work, ‘Les parfums du vin’ (The perfumes of wine), a book on sensory analysis, received the OIV Award in 2015.
We extend a warm welcome to Richard Pfister among the members of the OIV Award Jury!
During the press conference held at the headquarters of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, the Director General of the OIV, Pau Roca, presented the first estimations for world wine production in 2019.
2019 Wine production first data estimations
