Magrè Wine Symposium 2005:
Viticulture in the Solar Age
Viticulture in the Solar Age
The Solar Age
It’s time for a move away from oil, which is running out, and for turning instead to the exploitation of the sun, which furnishes more than sufficient energy. For the exploitation of solar energy in all the most various ways, both directly and indirectly, and for a reinvention of the era that preceded fossil-fuel dependency, at far higher levels of technology. This is more than an energy question: it’s a project for a new and different civilization, and as such is a fascinating challenge to all of us.
Hans Glauber
Magrè, October 28, 2005
Host: Alois Lageder
Moderator: Hans Glauber - Director of the Alto Adige Ecological Institute, Bolzano
Panel: Hartmut Graßl - Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Manfred Stock - Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Potsdam
Mario Scheuermann - Wine journalist, Hamburg
Round Table Participants: Hans Berger - Provincial Assessor for Agriculture, Bolzano
Michl Laimer - Provincial Assessor for Zoning, the Environment, Nature, the Landscape, Water and Energy, Bolzano
Martin Aurich - Unterortl Winery, Stava
Luis Raifer - Schreckbichl Co-operative, Cornaiano
Host: Alois Lageder
Moderator: Hans Glauber - Director of the Alto Adige Ecological Institute, Bolzano
Panel: Hartmut Graßl - Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Manfred Stock - Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Potsdam
Mario Scheuermann - Wine journalist, Hamburg
Round Table Participants: Hans Berger - Provincial Assessor for Agriculture, Bolzano
Michl Laimer - Provincial Assessor for Zoning, the Environment, Nature, the Landscape, Water and Energy, Bolzano
Martin Aurich - Unterortl Winery, Stava
Luis Raifer - Schreckbichl Co-operative, Cornaiano
The world-wide effects of climate change are also present in viticulture. Many grape growers already perceive its repercussions in their very own vineyards: there’s a higher incidence of diseases and parasites, and earlier harvests every year. The Alois Lageder winery was able to celebrate the Jubilee year of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 2005, and used this meaningful occasion as an opportunity to draw attention to future generations, and to raise a number of questions. What are the future conditions in which grapes will have to be grown if global warming continues to accelerate? What influence will the depletion of fossil fuel reserves hold for our economic cycles? Alois Lageder is convinced that the future of grape growing in the solar age is something with which we should all be concerned, whether we are vintners, merchants, or private lovers of fine wines.
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