Articles tagged with the word "water":

Reducing the drip, drip, drip

Published on May 8, 2013

Water is one of our most precious resources, and irrigation is vital to much vineyard growth around the world, but how are growers reducing its use?


The Douro – cool to be hot

Published on October 29, 2011

The Douro is one of the oldest vineyards in the world, and it also ranks amongst the hottest, making it a challenging viticultural landscape. Yet the region makes some of the finest still and fortified wines known to man. When all the buzz is about cool climate, why is it cool to be hot in the Douro?


A watershed moment in sustainable global viticulture

Published on April 20, 2011

As it becomes more recognised that water is the new gold, stewardship programmes for water management are being created to develop systems of sustainable river basin management, considering issues such as water risk, availability, quantity, quality, and fair-share usage.

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