
VinGO Operational Group: Project for the identification, enhancement, and international marketing of minority grape varieties
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2023 -2025
- Assigned Budget 566.298,51 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Cantabria; Castilla y León; País Vasco
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://www.variedadesminoritarias.es/grupo-operativo-vingo/
Description
Project that seeks innovative solutions to develop viticultural management models aimed at the promotion and visibility of minority grape varieties. And it does so based on three pillars: the identification and classification of raw materials through the creation of a digital catalogue, the enhancement of these varieties as a solution to mitigate the effects of climate change on viticulture and, finally, to promote the marketing of wines made with these varieties by creating quality labels that reflect their uniqueness and origin.
Objectives
- Promoting the cultivation of minority grape varieties as an alternative to adapting vine cultivation to climate change through the use of technological and innovative tools.
- Create digital and technological tools that allow for the identification, visibility, georeferencing, consultation, promotion, and management of Spain's minority grape varieties.
- Marketing of minority grape varieties nationally and internationally
- Define a sustainability strategy to reduce the Vingo consortium's emissions and offset its carbon footprint.
Results
- Protocol for managing parameters linked to minority varieties, whose use allows for a reduction in alcohol content. Lowering pH is geared toward achieving innovative productions with high commercial potential.
- Locate areas that favor the conditions of the vine plant and its survival in the face of climate change.
- Digital development of the first online platform for sectoral and multidisciplinary information for professional contact and a virtual classroom for specific training.
- Marketing and commercialization plan for minority grape varieties to promote sales
- Strategic plan for ecological certification, environmental and carbon footprint balance Quality seal design
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: Cowine Association
- Coordinator/entity email: hola@cowine.es
Collaborators
- Asociación ruta del vino de Arribes
- Diputación provincial de Ávila
- Grupo de acción local Liébana
Beneficiaries
- Asociación Cowine
- ECM Ingeniería ambiental S.L.
- 3 ASES bodegas y viñedos S.L.
- Bodega El hato y el garabato
- Bodega202 SLU
Outsourced
- De rotos y descosidos SC
- USU Turismo Expertise
- Instituto tecnológico agrario de Castilla y León (ITACYL)