On July 17 in Geneva the International OIV Jury awarded 11 Prizes and 9 Special Mentions among 51 works in competition and 15 countries who were represented: one superb OIV Awards vintage 2019!

Viticulture

OIV Award

Vine Roots / Wingerdwortels

Eben Archer, Dawid Saayman
Publication IGWS - Institute for Grape & Wine Sciences
(EN + Afrikaans, Free Web access)

Special Mention

Handbook for Irrigation of Wine Grapes in South Africa

Philip Albertus Myburgh
Publication IGWS - Institute for Grape & Wine Sciences
(Free Web access)

Viticulture and Enology

OIV Award

Winorośl I Wino. Wiedza i praktyka (część 1 i 2)

Roman Myśliwiec, Ewa Wawro, Wojciech Bosak
Edition Fundacja Galicja Vitis

Enology

OIV Award

Red Wine Technology

Antonio Morata, coordinateur / coordinator
Edition Elsevier Inc.

Economy

OIV Award

The Palgrave Handbook of Wine Industry Economics

Adeline Alonso Ugaglia, Jean-Marie Cardebat, Alessandro Corsi, coordinators
Edition Palgrave Macmillan

Special Mention

Coffee and Wine: Two Worlds Compared

Morten Scholer
Edition Troubador Publishing Ltd

History

OIV Award

Les petits vignobles. Des territoires en question (Moyen Âge-XXIe s.)

Stéphane Le Bras, director of the collective work
Publication Presses Universitaires de Rennes and Presses Universitaires François Rabelais

Special Mention

Hunter Wine : A history (1828 – 1983)

Julie McIntyre, John Germov
Edition NewSouth Books (University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney)

Literature

Special Mention

Sommelier à mots choisis

Philippe Bourguignon
With the contribution of Jean Serroy
Edition "Editions Glénat"

Fine Arts - Photography

Special Mention

Giacomo Tachis - Mescolavin

Bruno Bruchi, photographer
Andrea Cappelli, author
Edition Carlo Cambi Editore with the collaboration of Edizioni Effigi with Fondazione ChiantiBanca

Discovering and Presenting Wines

OIV Award

Languedoc Roussillon södra frankrikes viner

Britt Karlsson, Bengt Rydén, Per Karlsson
Edition Carlsson Bokförlag

Special Mention

Skin Contact - Voyage aux origines du vin nu

Alice Feiring
(translated by Sophie Brissaud : « For the love of Wine »)
Edition "Editions Nouriturfu"

Wines and Territories

OIV Award

Italiensk Vin

Thomas Ilkjær, Paolo Lolli, Arne Ronold, Ole Udsen
Edition Forlagshuset Vigmostad & Bjørke

Special Mention

Vignes et Vins, paysages et civilisations millénaires

Raphaël Schirmer
Edition "Editions Glénat"

Monographs and Specialised Studies

OIV Award

Roche et vin. À la découverte des vignobles suisses
Stein und Wein. Entdeckungsreisen durch die Schweizerischen Rebbaugebiete

Editor-in-chief Rainer Kündig
With Jean-Claude Hofstetter, Christoph Meyer, Thomas Mumenthaler
Edition (FR + DE) AS Verlag

Special Mention

La Noblesse du Tonneau

Roland Bugada, Gilles Bousquet, Frédéric Gillet, André Valognes
Edition Editions de L'Escargot Savant

Atlas - Ampelography

OIV Award

Atlante dei vitigni tradizionali di Puglia

Pierfederico La Notte, Francesco Civita, Stefano Raimondi, Anna Schneider
Edition CRSFA - Centro di Ricerca, Sperimentazione e Formazione in Agricoltura
« Basile Caramia »

Special Mention

The Cretan Grapes
Κρητική Αμπελογραφία

Maritina Stavrakaki - Μαριτίνα Σταυρακάκη
Manolis N. Stavrakakis - Μανόλης Ν. Σταυρακάκης
Edition (GR + EN) TROPI

Sustainable Vitiviniculture

OIV Award - EX ÆQUO

Terroir - Wetter, Klima, Boden

Dieter Hoppmann, Klaus Schaller, Manfred Stoll
Edition Eugen Ulmer Verlag

El sector vitivinícola frente al desafío del cambio climático. Estrategias públicas y privadas de mitigación y adaptación en el Mediterráneo

Raúl Compés López, Vicente Sotés Ruiz, coordinators
Edition Cajamar Caja Rural

Thanks to the work of Switzerland’s Organising Committee and Scientific Committee, presided respectively by Simone de Montmollin and François Murisier, Geneva became the global capital of vitiviniculture from 15 to 19 July 2019.

A member of the OIV since 1934, Switzerland had previously hosted the World Congress of Vine and Wine in 1955 and in 1977.

The 17th General Assembly of the OIV concluded the week, with 18 new resolutions adopted.

In the photo: Adrian Aebi, Assistant Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG); Pau Roca, Director General of the OIV; Marco Romano, President of the Swiss Interprofessional Organisation of Vine and Wine (IVVS); Nathalie Fontanet, State Councillor for the Canton of Geneva; François Murisier, President of the Scientific Committee for the 42nd OIV Congress; Simone de Montmollin, President of the Organising Committee for the 42nd OIV Congress; Regina Vanderlinde, President of the OIV; Monika Christmann, Vice-President of the OIV; Luigi Moio, 2nd Vice-President (and Scientific Vice-President) of the OIV.

Environmental expectations

With the central theme of ‘Preservation and innovation: expectations at the environmental, economic and social level’, the discussions of the OIV Congress dealt with the following issues: climate change, to which vines are highly sensitive; value promotion of products (terroirs, origin, sanitary and food-grade quality of vine products, sugar content, allergens, etc.); and vine protection, with the highly topical question of input management.

On the opening day of the Congress, the latter theme was also the object of a public conference entitled ‘A reasoned approach to inputs: scientific contributions and consumer perception’.

The President of the OIV, Regina Vanderlinde, highlighted the excellent quality of the 348 technical and scientific presentations – some of which came from countries such as Japan or even Nepal.

The Director General of the OIV, Pau Roca, who presented a report on the world vitivinicultural situation at the opening ceremony, praised Switzerland’s organisation of this remarkable Congress, which was the fourth biggest in terms of presentations in the last 10 years.

Papers that have received author consent for publication will be available on the EDP Sciences Web of Conferences website in September.

As part of the Organisation’s sustainable approach, this 42nd Congress was the first ‘paper-free’ OIV Congress. It was also the first time that all of the information regarding the events and scientific work presented was available for consultation via an app.

The new OIV resolutions

The 17th General Assembly of the OIV concluded the week of scientific work with the adoption of 18 new resolutions.

With regard to climate change – a major concern for the sector – it is worth highlighting Resolution OIV-VITI 564B-2019, which defines polyclonal selection, as well as an OIV protocol for the protection and conservation of the intravarietal diversity and the polyclonal selection of vines for grape varieties with wide genetic variability.

Consumer expectations and the reduction of the use of SO2 – issues also at the heart of debate within the sector – are the object of Resolution OIV-OENO 594A-2019. This Resolution establishes an innovative practice with the objectives, among others, of reducing the microbial loads of indigenous microorganisms (especially yeasts), and of reducing SO2 levels used in winemaking.

A summary of all of the resolutions may be consulted here. The full texts of the resolutions adopted will shortly be published on the OIV website.

The OIV Assembly also marked the passing of the baton from Switzerland to Chile, the host country for the future 43rd World Congress of Vine and Wine, to be held in Santiago from 23 to 27 November 2020.