Attending the American Society of Enology and Viticulture's sold out climate day session, I was impressed with two, special keynote speakers: Nick Dokoozlian, Gallo's top vit expert, and Monika Christmann, Geisenheim University Wine Institute's president, who was for three years the head of OIV. Both contributed their wisdom - and in Monika's case, often her wit - to the assembled multitudes.
The conference, which changes locations annually, was held in Napa this year. It is truly a wine super geek fest, with researchers and academics presenting papers to an international audience and posters from young researchers on the walls for all to see.
For reasons unknown, only two of us press types were allowed to attend the climate day. (Others were allowed to attend all the other sessions.) That said, I feel obliged to share at length what they said, which you can find on WineBusiness.com.
Enjoy.
At ASEV: Former OIV Leader's Big Picture Thinking Part 1 - Climate Change and Winemaking
At ASEV: Former OIV Leader's Big Picture Thinking Part 2 - The Search for the New Ideal Wine
Note: you can also buy audio recordings of conference sessions here which also lists all of the sessions (information that is no longer on the public ASEV website). https://allstartapes.com/asev-74th-national-conference-2023/.
ASEV members will have access to videos of all conference sessions.
There was very little coverage of organic wine grape research, so I have not written about that topic in this post.
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