During a meeting with the Minister in the presence of Christian Jaborek and a number of senior Ministry officials, Jean-Marie Aurand praised the quality of relations between the Austrian authorities and the OIV and was delighted with their significant involvement at all levels.
The Minister, emphasising the importance that his country attaches to the Organisation, confirmed his desire to maintain the active presence of his country in the different working structures.
The possibility of organising a presentation of Austrian wines at the OIV in 2017 was envisaged.
The visit led to a meeting with President Johannes Schmuckenschlager and Managing Director Josef Glatt of the Austrian Winegrowers' Association, as well as with the Managing Director of the Wine Marketing Board, Willi Klinger.
The Director General was also hosted at the Federal College and Research Institute by its Director Reinhard Eder, who is also an OIV expert. Founded in 1980, the Institute plays a training role while also carrying out applied research in various vitiviniculture-related fields. Several researchers at the Institute participate in the work of the OIV.
Finally, Jean-Marie Aurand visited a number of vineyards.
Concentrated in the eastern part of the country, Austrian viticulture comprises nearly 25,000 estates, which produce 2.3 Mhl of wine per year.
Austria has a long vitivinicultural tradition: vines have been grown there for thousands of years. Vinification, essentially of white wine (2/3 of production), emphasises traditional vine varieties such as Grüner Veltliner, an emblematic variety.
Over recent years, Austrian viticulture has taken a remarkable leap forward thanks to major investment in quality. Winegrowers have used their strong talents to successfully reconcile tradition and modernity, which explains their success.
The 2016 event was a vintage year in terms of the quality of the competing works.
27 countries were represented during registrations: a record since the OIV Awards were created.
Furthermore, as an exceptional measure, the OIV Grand Prix award went to both Pierre Galet as well as Jancis Robinson for their contribution to the dissemination of knowledge of the wine sector and in acknowledgement of their internationally recognised work.
The 2016 OIV Grand Prix
To Pierre Galet for all of his work and the book representing his career as an author:
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages et de leurs synonymes
Author: Pierre Galet
Publisher: Libre & Solidaire
Country: France
Language: French
1200 pages
Format: 21 x 24 cm
To Jancis Robinson for all of her work and the book representing her career as an author:
The Oxford Companion to Wine
Author: Jancis Robinson assisted by Julia Harding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
908 pages
Format: 27.6 x 21.9 cm
The 2016 OIV Awards
Category 1: Viticulture
Vitigni Italiani. Loro caratterizzazione e valorizzazione - Italian wine grape varieties. Their viticultural characterization
Authors and coordinators of the group of 50 authors:
Luigi Bavaresco and Massimo Gardiman
Publisher: Gianni Sartori Editore
Country: Italy
Languages: Italian and English
231 pages
Format: 21 x 30 cm
Category 2: Oenology
Química Enológica - métodos analíticos. Avanços recentes no controlo da qualidade dos vinhos e de outros produtos vitivinícolas
Scientific Director of the group of 31 authors: António Sérgio Curvelo-Garcia
Scientific Co-Director of the group of 31 authors: Paulo Barros
Publisher: Agrobook – editorial team: AGROTEC / Antonio Sergio Curvelo-Garcia and Paulo Barros
Country: Portugal
Language: Portuguese
823 pages
Format: 24 x 19 cm
&
Technologie des Weines
Author: Jochen Hamatschek
Publisher: Verlag Eugen Ulmer
Country: Germany
Language: German
478 pages
Format: 17 x 23.5 cm
Category 3: Economy and Law
Appellation Napa Valley: Building and Protecting an American Treasure
Author: Richard Mendelson
Publisher: Val de Grace Books & Film, INC.
Country: United States
Language: English
261 pages
Format: 30.5 x 22.9 cm
Category 3: Law
はじめてのワイン法 (Hajimete-no-wain-ho)
Author: Kensuké Ebihara
Publisher: Kohyusha. co., Ltd.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese + PDF
368 pages
Format: 12.7 x 18.8 cm
Category 4: Literature
Le vin snob
Author: Jacques Orhon
Publisher: Les Editions de l'HOMME
Country: Canada
Language: French
264 pages
Format: 15 x 23 cm
Category 4: History
Le pinard des Poilus. Une histoire du vin en France durant la grande Guerre (1914-1918)
Author: Christophe Lucand
Publisher: EUD - Editions Universitaires de Dijon
Country: France
Language: French
170 pages
Format: 15 x 23 cm
Category 6: Discovering and Presenting Wines
Atlas de la vigne et du vin - Un nouveau défi de la mondialisation
Coordinator of the group of authors: François Legouy and Sylvaine Boulanger
Publisher: Armand Colin
Country: France
Language: French
176 pages
Format: 21 X 29.7 cm
Category 7: Wines and Territories
Vins insolites - Unusual wines - Vinos insolitos - Vini insoliti
Author: Pierrick Bourgault
Publisher: Editions JonGlez
Country: France
Language: Published in French, Italian, Spanish and English
256 pages
Format: 17.5 x 28.4 cm
&
The Wines of India - A Concise Guide
Author: Peter Csizmadia-Honigh
Publisher: The Press Publishing Ltd
Country: India
Language: English
452 pages
Format: 18.9 x 24.6 cm
Category 9: Monographs
VINOGRADARSKI ATLAS
Authors: Dragoslav Ivanišević, Darko Jakšić and Nada Korać
Publisher: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
Country: Serbia
Language: Serbian
413 pages
Format: 21 X 29.5 cm
Category 10: Symposia proceedings
Droit du vin et santé publique - Wine law and public health
Director of the group of authors: Théodore Georgopoulos
Publisher: Les Éditions Mare & Martin
Country: France
Language: French and English
277 pages
Format: 21 x 15 cm
The 2016 OIV Special Mentions
Category 1: Viticulture
Traité de la vigne
Coordinator of the group of eight authors: Alain Carbonneau
Publisher: Editions Dunod
Country: France
Language: French
592 pages
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Category 2: Oenology
Brettanomyces et phénols volatils - Outils pratiques pour prévenir et limiter les altérations dans les vins
Author: Vincent Renouf
Publisher: Lavoisier
Country: France
Language: French
264 pages
Format: 15 x 24 cm
Category 3: Economy
Successful social media and ecommerce strategies in the wine industry
Authors: Gergely Szolnoki, Liz Thach and Dani Kolb
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Country: United States
Language: English
146 pages
Format: 14 x 22 cm
&
Entreprendre dans le vin
Author: Martin Cubertafond
Publisher: Editions Eyrolles
Country: France
Language: French
290 pages
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Category 4: History
La vid y el vino en España. Edades antigua y media
Author: Juan Piqueras Haba
Publisher: PUV (Publicacions Universitat Valencia)
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
466 pages
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Category 6: Discovering and Presenting Wines
Wine behind the label - 9th edition
Authors: David Moore and Neville Blech
Publisher: Wine Behind The Label
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
936 pages
Format: 28 x 21.6 cm
&
La fée de la vigne
Author of the texts: Christian Fellmann
Watercolour Illustrator: Marianne Schneeberger-Baehler
Publisher: Association Aquarelle à la carte
Country: Switzerland
Language: French
50 pages
Format: 25 x 21 cm
Category 7: Wines and Territories
Skalické búdy - príbehy o vinohradníkoch a víne
Author: Pavol Dinka
Publisher: Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov Bratislava
Country: Slovakia
Language: Slovak
567 pages
Format: 31 x 28 cm
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Hungarian Wine: a Tasting Trip to the New Old World
Author: Robert Smyth
Publisher: Blueguides
Country: Hungary
Language: English
351 pages
Format: 14.8 x 21 cm
Category 8: Wines and Gastronomy
Božská Réva - Kniha plná vína
Author: Barbara Myšičková
Publisher: Divinemenu
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
370 pages
Format: 23 x 23 cm
Category 9: Monographs
Oltenia mica Românie viticolă
Authors: Aurel Popa, Nicolae Giugea and Traian Cătălin Genoiu
Publisher: AIUS
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian
343 pages
Format: 24.5 x 17.5 cm
Category 9: Monographs and Specialised Studies
Les outils de la vigne et du vin - Voyage à travers l'histoire du vin et de ses métiers
Author: Stéphane Bernoud
Publisher: Dunod
Country: France
Language: French
252 pages
Format: 24 x 32 cm
Category 10: Encyclopaedias
Manuel de sommellerie professionnelle
Authors: Pascal Patron, Kathleen McNeil and Jean-Luc Jault
Publisher: Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec
Country: Canada
Language: French
754 pages
Format: 21.2 X 27.5 cm
Before 123 Member States of the Codex Alimentarius, and within the framework of relations between the Codex Alimentarius Commission and other international organisations, Monika Christmann emphasised that the OIV was participating in several Codex projects under way and that it was actively involved, particularly in discussions concerning the provisions relative to food additives that appear in the General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA). She insisted on the need to ensure consistency between the GSFA provisions on food additives used for grape wines and OIV recommendations. Furthermore, she declared that the OIV was looking to collaborate closely with the Codex, as well as with the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), in order to avoid the duplication of work and the establishment of divergent international standards – given that a number of references to Codex standards have already been included in OIV documents.
Monika Christmann also signalled that the OIV was continuing its active collaboration with the FAO for the purposes of developing global statistics on the vitivinicultural sector.
The OIV President concluded that it was necessary to pursue cooperation and coordination with regard to activities of common interest to the OIV and the Codex.
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