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Tasting wines grown under 2050 temperature
Wine connoisseurs will get a taste of the future at a special Barossa wine tasting this month.
Appropriately the tasting will be held on Thursday, 15 December during one of the State’s hottest months of the year.
The tasting will feature Barossa wines from grapes grown at temperatures expected to prevail in the year 2050.
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), with the support of Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Treasury Wine Estates, has established a research and development program to investigate the effect of elevated temperature on grapevine physiology and wine attributes.
Associate Professor Victor Sadras said, “We established a fully replicated trial with four varieties grown under current conditions vs 2-4oC increase in daytime temperature. A second trial includes Shiraz grown under current conditions vs elevated temperature, in combination with frequent irrigation vs water deficit.
“Unlike comparisons between wines from hot vs cool regions or between hotter and cooler vintages in the same region, these trials allow for a direct, unequivocal assessment of temperature effects. The wines from the 2011 vintage are ready for tasting.”
At the Barossa workshop interested people will have an opportunity to taste wines produced under current climate side-by-side with wines produced from fruit grown under elevated temperature.
The free informal tasting will be held between 1-4 pm on Thursday, December 15 at Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre, Barossa Valley Way, Rowland Flat.
Please contact Martin Moran to register your interest in the workshop as wine availability constraints the number of participants.
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SARDI’s state-of-the-art heating system allows to elevate temperature under realistic vineyard conditions to simulate future climate. (high resolution image 2.6 MB)
Further information: Victor Sadras (victor.sadras@sa.gov.au Ph 0428 100275) or
Martin Moran (martin.moran@sa.gov.au Ph 0448 928513)
