The Innovation Catalogue is a showcase of ideas to fit the needs of the wine makers in their day-to-day life. In this article, tools are proposed to answer the following question “How to decrease energy and water consumptions in the winery”?
SOLUTIONS FOR WINE MAKING
Regarding winemaking, the WICA’s catalogue is proposing solutions linked to the following challenges:
Decrease energy and water consumption in the winery
Reduce use of additives in winemaking
Adapt production in response to market requests
How to decrease energy and water consumptions in the winery?
Wine makers can choose among 15 solutions such as reuse of fermentative CO2 or engineering systems to better automate and monitor the production process to make it more efficient, from fermentation to bottling through maceration and stabilization
The 15 solutions are proposed synthetically on pages 21 to 23. To explore each solution in more detail, just click on the purple pen symbol.
WICA’S INNOVATION CATALOGUE
The Innovation Catalogue is a showcase of brilliant ideas from the “The Wine Industry of Tomorrow” crowd-writing contest organized by The Wine Innovation Collaboration Alliance – WICA, which included 9 different scenarios, under 3 main themes: Grape-growing, Winemaking, and Management & Marketing.
Supplier companies in the wine sector were called to complete these challenging scenarios, integrating their innovative solutions. In total, 45 companies participated, resulting in 85 stories.
Discover solutions that are shaking things up in the wine world;
See who’s behind these ideas, bringing their expertise to the table;
Find out about trends that’ll shape the future of the wine industry.
WICA MISSION AND GOALS
The WICA by EPAWI team is looking forward to supporting your international actions and collaborations!
The Wine Innovation Collaboration Alliance – WICA is the network created by the EPAWI project. WICA is an association which aims to promote and improve the collaborative innovation and internationalization of the wine production value chain in order to foster its sustainable development and competitiveness.
Bringing together all the initiatives that provide not only practical solutions but also an improvement in efficiency, connectivity and sustainability, WICA proposes expertise of the wine market, including knowledge and contacts, support in developing collaborative projects with wine industry stakeholders, and international development for innovators.
The project EPAWI is funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme. GRANT AGREEMENT NUMBER 101035914 — EPAWI — COS-CLUSINT-2020-3-01.
