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VINYSOST

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Dates

August 2014 - July 2018

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Project completed

Role of CIRCE

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Description and objectives

VINYSOST is an R&D consortium project (8 wineries and 10 technology and research centers) whose main objective is to improve the quality and competitiveness of Spanish wines through the sustainable management of production in large vineyards, thus responding to the major challenges of the Spanish wine sector. VINYSOST is being developed over 48 months and its organizational structure is broken down into three technical activities and 9 tasks, with activity 3 being the core line of the project in which all the business partners participate:

  • Activity 1: Strategies for sustainable production in large areas.
  • Activity 2: Strategies for the improvement of wine evolution and stability.
  • Activity 3: Global management of wine sustainability.

Value proposition

The project is based on the achievement of three main objectives:

  • To optimize the management of large Spanish vineyards to improve the final quality of the wines produced, controlling their health status to reduce the negative effects of diseases and pests on yields, quality and production costs and improving, through new products, the aromatic and phenolic maturity of the grapes thus obtained in red and white varieties.
  • To develop strategies to improve the aromatic, sensory, microbiological and chemical evolution and stability of wines, ensuring their optimum condition at the time of consumption, especially in those wines intended for export and cellaring.
  • Develop a comprehensive support application for business management, implementing and integrating for the first time, the analysis and cost of the life cycle to reach a global management of wine sustainability.
  • Business management support by implementing Life Cycle Costing and Analysis
  • Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Costing of the solutions adopted in the project.
  • Carbon and Water Footprint calculation.

Project partners

CODORNIU, CIRCE