Italy is ongoing vineyard restructuring. Next ten-year outlook [Vitis vinifera L.]
2001
Intrieri, C. (Bologna Univ. (Italy). Dipartimento di Colture Arboree)
It can be expected that the evolution of Italy vineyard restructuring in the wine grape industry will proceed at differing rates of speed over the next decade. There will be the slower process that typifies the small holdings under part time management and the more accelerated pace that marks the large business holdings managed by skilled professionals. The former will presumably keep the traditional design models with long pruning of renewal canes like Guyot, with its arched shoot systems and low hedgerows in less fertile districts and the Sylvoz, raggi and various pergolas in the more fertile ones. Most of these vineyards will continue showing physiological and crop quality problems and very differing trellises requiring costly pruning and harvesting operations performed exclusively by hand. The latter, by contrast, will exhibit radical differences in vineyard establishment and management operations. Training systems will be based on short-pruned permanent cordons and trellising determined almost always by soil fertility, i.e. spur-pruned cordon with upright-trellised shoots in the less fertile districts and free cordons in the more fertile ones. All these systems will be programmed for quality grape production and be compatible with pruner and harvester units now on the market. In other words, many of the tenets of modern viticulture will be incorporated in Italy districts and will be accompanied by increasingly expert professional management teams
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