Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TRACEWINDU (Traceability at wine industry through integrated labelling of typicality, health protection effect and organoleptic attributes)
Reporting period: 2021-06-01 to 2024-02-29
Nowadays, fungal diseases are one of the main phytosanitary problems that affect crops worldwide. Wine industry represents an important part of both agriculture and food industry. Spain, France, and Italy represent alone a total of 32% of world vineyard surface area, being within the top 5 world producers of grapes in 2018 [ES (40.9 million hectolitres (mhl), 15%) FR (46.4 mhl, 17%) IT (48.5 mhl, 18%) AR (14.5 mhl, 5%)]. Such trends are being consolidated and increasing production during the last 20 years. Besides, global export market is ruled by EU countries in terms of mhl (ES, FR, IT represent a 55% of total) and millions of € (FR & IT represent a 49% of total). Most of the strategies used to control fungal infection have been based on application of synthetic organic fungicides or Cu-based fungicides that lead to excess copper (Cu) availability in vineyards as a consequence of decades of use. Nowadays, application rates of Cu in organic agriculture are limited to levels which do not increase baseline soil test values for Cu over a timeframe. Nevertheless, these strategies have become less effective and more restricted due to appearance of highly resistant isolates, and to negative environmental effects that derive from repetitive and sometimes indiscriminate use of these products. There is an increasing demand for environmentally safe agrochemicals generated by alternative agriculture systems that promote sustainable and healthy production of foods. This situation has stimulated development of research orientated to provide alternative control strategies, e.g. the use of plant extracts as a source of secondary metabolites or use of other environmentally friendly substances that alleviate plant stresses and are growth promotors, named in EU as Plant Protection Products (PPPs).
Besides, the consolidation of wine production internationalization, required by consumers and citizens which are better informed and having new demands, require the producers to change production styles. Society tries to reach a lifestyle less subordinate to technology, chemistry, consumerism and fast pace. However, the manual processing and almost total refusal of both technology and science, inevitably results in strong decreases of yields and notable increase in production costs besides the objective risk of quality discontinuity and deterioration of wines. All of that implies high prices per bottle and often products of disputable quality and consistency. Thus, there are different ways of helping consumers to select wished wine. One example is the creation of a special wine chart characterized by some quantifiable attributes, related to measured traceability, typicality, health protection and organoleptic effect and classify each product by a score calculated by weighted sum of each attribute value. The beneficial properties of wine apparently are due to its antioxidant capacity because of its high content of phenolic compounds.
Furthermore, glass beverage bottles cause most environmental damage, including global warming. Reusing a glass bottle three times lowers it carbon footprint roughly to that of a single-use plastic beverage bottle. Up to 80% of recycled glass can be reclaimed, and recycled glass uses 40% less energy than manufacturing new glass. In wine industry, almost 99% of packages are made from glass and having in mind that vines were grown in EU on 3.2 million hectares in 2015 representing 45 % of world’s total area under vines, it is clear that lack of recycling of wine glasses can cause devastating long-term impact on environment. Further to this, glass beverage bottles are expensive, and some retailers are providing return programs, offering a credit if a customer returns an empty bottle, that brings customers back to the store where they are likely to buy again. The ability of Smart tags to interact with user can be used to show information about when, where from what and under what circumstances is wine made, and engage consumer to recycle and even reward them.
To effectively apply novel PPPs to improve vineyards efficiency and reduce use of fertilizers and pesticides.
Integration of cutting-edge methodologies (HR and MC ICP-MS) to improve isotopic fingerprint gathered information and improve discriminatory geographic origin assessment of targeted DOPs and DOCs.
Integrated approach between sensory and chemical evaluation of wines, to select and verify sensorial attributes showing the strongest correlations with the chemical parameters.
Potential health properties of wines expressed by useful parameters (total phenols, flavonoid contents, antioxidant power).
To implement a decentralized blockchain based traceability system with cryptographic schemes for wine supply chain to provide transparency, provenance, safety, and security.
Besides, the consolidation of wine production internationalization, required by consumers and citizens which are better informed and having new demands, require the producers to change production styles. Society tries to reach a lifestyle less subordinate to technology, chemistry, consumerism and fast pace. However, the manual processing and almost total refusal of both technology and science, inevitably results in strong decreases of yields and notable increase in production costs besides the objective risk of quality discontinuity and deterioration of wines. All of that implies high prices per bottle and often products of disputable quality and consistency. Thus, there are different ways of helping consumers to select wished wine. One example is the creation of a special wine chart characterized by some quantifiable attributes, related to measured traceability, typicality, health protection and organoleptic effect and classify each product by a score calculated by weighted sum of each attribute value. The beneficial properties of wine apparently are due to its antioxidant capacity because of its high content of phenolic compounds.
Furthermore, glass beverage bottles cause most environmental damage, including global warming. Reusing a glass bottle three times lowers it carbon footprint roughly to that of a single-use plastic beverage bottle. Up to 80% of recycled glass can be reclaimed, and recycled glass uses 40% less energy than manufacturing new glass. In wine industry, almost 99% of packages are made from glass and having in mind that vines were grown in EU on 3.2 million hectares in 2015 representing 45 % of world’s total area under vines, it is clear that lack of recycling of wine glasses can cause devastating long-term impact on environment. Further to this, glass beverage bottles are expensive, and some retailers are providing return programs, offering a credit if a customer returns an empty bottle, that brings customers back to the store where they are likely to buy again. The ability of Smart tags to interact with user can be used to show information about when, where from what and under what circumstances is wine made, and engage consumer to recycle and even reward them.
To effectively apply novel PPPs to improve vineyards efficiency and reduce use of fertilizers and pesticides.
Integration of cutting-edge methodologies (HR and MC ICP-MS) to improve isotopic fingerprint gathered information and improve discriminatory geographic origin assessment of targeted DOPs and DOCs.
Integrated approach between sensory and chemical evaluation of wines, to select and verify sensorial attributes showing the strongest correlations with the chemical parameters.
Potential health properties of wines expressed by useful parameters (total phenols, flavonoid contents, antioxidant power).
To implement a decentralized blockchain based traceability system with cryptographic schemes for wine supply chain to provide transparency, provenance, safety, and security.
Identified case studies areas and started the data gathering of all targeted regions. Defined protocols and methodologies to apply PPPs in targeted areas of Priorat, Lujan de Cuyo, Plantaje, and Tenuta. Data gathering to establish later the obtained yields. Disclosed the protocols to evaluate the response of vine to PPPs application
Sampling procedure already disclosed to producer partners and state-of-the-art methodologies for suitable and shortened sample treatment. Update of isotopic fingerprint process. +100 wine samples processed and evauated.
An official test panel was created
Being analysed the needs and elicit requirements relevant to wine industry value chain and evaluate the best demonstration approaches of future WP4.
Updated CDP and promotional kit. Continuous interactions with the wine value chain of stakeholders by presenting the project to different actors during the development of secondments
Continuous review of management, QA procedures and communication with PO.
Sampling procedure already disclosed to producer partners and state-of-the-art methodologies for suitable and shortened sample treatment. Update of isotopic fingerprint process. +100 wine samples processed and evauated.
An official test panel was created
Being analysed the needs and elicit requirements relevant to wine industry value chain and evaluate the best demonstration approaches of future WP4.
Updated CDP and promotional kit. Continuous interactions with the wine value chain of stakeholders by presenting the project to different actors during the development of secondments
Continuous review of management, QA procedures and communication with PO.
TRACEWINDU uses environmentally friendly products to improve productivity, enhance levels of flavonoids in grapevine which have beneficial health effects. Besides, an updated of isotopic fingerprint process, together with multielemental data, following chemometrics data treatment increased the discrimination power of IRs method for wine provenance and origin determination.
TRACEWINDU contributes to future challenges of EU wine sector within Economic (to increase industry competitiveness and support internationalization), Environmental (to reply requests of industries’ environmental concern about use of natural resources) and Social (to reply consumer expectations, to identity/authenticity, quality, food safety and diversity) dimensions. TRACEWINDU intends to guarantee wine traceability along the value chain with a platform to merge physical bottle, tech, data regarding analytical, nutraceutical and sensory, images and provenance documents about that bottle, generating unique tags and recording the data in blockchain from different stakeholders to create a truly robust, useful framework which will empower consumers information-based purchases
Use of Plant Protection Products acting as elicitors of plants defense system. Isotopic fingerprint to ensure DOP/DOC. Smart tags based on blockchain to empower consumers information-based purchase and recycle
DOP/DOC geographic origin assessment based on isotopic fingerprint analytical services
Decentralized blockchain technology, cryptography, and smart tags
Quality wines assessment based on physical, nutraceutical and organoleptic characteristics by an easy-to-apply product evaluation
TRACEWINDU contributes to future challenges of EU wine sector within Economic (to increase industry competitiveness and support internationalization), Environmental (to reply requests of industries’ environmental concern about use of natural resources) and Social (to reply consumer expectations, to identity/authenticity, quality, food safety and diversity) dimensions. TRACEWINDU intends to guarantee wine traceability along the value chain with a platform to merge physical bottle, tech, data regarding analytical, nutraceutical and sensory, images and provenance documents about that bottle, generating unique tags and recording the data in blockchain from different stakeholders to create a truly robust, useful framework which will empower consumers information-based purchases
Use of Plant Protection Products acting as elicitors of plants defense system. Isotopic fingerprint to ensure DOP/DOC. Smart tags based on blockchain to empower consumers information-based purchase and recycle
DOP/DOC geographic origin assessment based on isotopic fingerprint analytical services
Decentralized blockchain technology, cryptography, and smart tags
Quality wines assessment based on physical, nutraceutical and organoleptic characteristics by an easy-to-apply product evaluation