Lanzarote’s La Geria now pays growers by the depth of their vine pits. It may be Europe’s only wine subsidy priced by the shovel.
Viticulture
PIWI grapes cross vinifera with wild American and Asian vines to carry the resistance vinifera never had. The German Wine Institute puts the payoff plainly: plant-protection measures cut by up to 80 percent.
A high trellis lets the flock stay in the vines year-round, ending herbicide use and cutting tractor passes. The catch is methane, which is why the real case for vineyard sheep is land-use efficiency, not a greener bottle.
Before the sun has cleared the trellis line, a viticulturist in Fresno walks the headland to the irrigation controller mounted…
The first time a wine chemist isolated the molecule responsible for the green-pepper aroma in Cabernet Franc, the gas chromatograph…