Practical Guide to Innovative Viticulture | Olivier Zébic

Preface by Alain Deloire, Professor of Viticulture and Director of the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre (Charles Sturt University, Australia), Extraordinary Professor (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Professor of Viticulture (Montpellier SupAgro, France).Throughout history, the world of wine has always managed to reinvent itself to create added value. Let us be innovative today with vineyard mechanization, robotics, fertirrigation, genetic improvement, and much more.This work revisits the fundamentals of viticulture with scientific rigor and common sense. Everyone can draw elements based on their production strategy and market segments: Quantity of grapes or vineyard yield. Quality of grapes or grape profile. Vine ecophysiology and genetic elements. Land management, maintenance, and soil knowledge. Mechanized pruning and associated training methods. Irrigation and fertirrigation. Proposal of an ecologically intensive production model. Table of contents: The concept of quantity of grapes or vineyard yield. The concept of quality of grapes or grape profile. Vine ecophysiology and genetic elements. Land management, maintenance, and soil knowledge. Mechanized pruning and associated training methods. Irrigation and fertirrigation. Proposal of an ecologically intensive production model. Abbreviations, symbols, synonyms, tables, and conversions.Author BiographiesOlivier Zébic - Agricultural Engineer and Oenologist, with a professional background entirely dedicated to creativity and innovation in technologies, marketing, and services, Olivier Zébic is currently President of INOZY and KELZYD. Based in Reims, Bordeaux, and Montpellier, and present internationally, these companies invent and build innovative viticultural equipment.Olivier Zébic is also: Scientific Coordinator and Writer of technical-economic studies in connection with the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vine and Wine (IHEV) of Montpellier SupAgro. Associate Partner of Montpellier SupAgro-IHEV. Trainer at Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, in strategy and entrepreneurship.AudienceWinemakers, cooperatives, wine merchants, viticultural technicians, oenologists, and cellar masters. Students in viticulture and oenology.