Tag: crossings

Mushrooms (porcini, ceps) on a market in Alba, Piedmont

Fungus-resistant grapes should be called fungus tolerant

2024-12-16

There is a lot of talk about fungus resistant grapes (sometimes called PIWI, from German pilzwiderstandsfähige). But the descriptor is maybe poorly chosen. The “fungus resistant” grapes used today are hybrids, in other words crosses

Less vineyard spraying, less poisons, with resistant grape varieties

2016-01-04

If you are a winemaker, be it “conventional” or organic, you have to spray the vineyards with treatments against diseases. You don’t really have much of a choice. The vines would barely survive and certainly

Cleaning with water spray a big tractor equipped for spraying

Less spraying with resistant grape varieties

2015-12-04

For more than a decade there has been research going on in France in order to obtain grape varieties that are resistant to the fungal diseases oidium and mildiou. The research organization INRA believe that

Fungus-resistant grapes should be called fungus tolerant

2024-12-16

There is a lot of talk about fungus resistant grapes (sometimes called PIWI, from German pilzwiderstandsfähige). But the descriptor is maybe poorly chosen. The “fungus