Wine Industry Network is proud to partner with VINIDEA to launch the ENOFORUM USA event in Santa Rosa, CA, on May 11th.

"ENOFORUM is the only opportunity where the three pillars of innovation come together," says Gianni Trioli, VINIDEA's founder and president, "the researchers, the suppliers who fund much of this research and develop the technology, and the pioneering winemakers who implement the new technologies in their daily work and often adapt them for greater efficiency. When these three groups work together, we have innovation that is not just research published in a paper, but practical solutions ready to be applied at the winery."

Winemakers and viticulturists recognize the benefits of collaboration with their vendors, often going to them with a problem or an idea that the supplier then develops into a product. It's not unusual for them to work together to test the innovation during its development. The same is true for researchers, who often rely on vendors to fund the years they need to study the effects of a new ingredient or process and prove its efficacy.

Held in Europe for over 20 years, the biannual European ENOFORUM is back as a live event in Spain on April 21st, following a COVID hiatus. Past ENOFORUM events have attracted 1,200 attendees in Italy, 500 in Spain and 450 in Portugal, and brought over 1,900 technicians together with 70 research groups and 40 leading companies during the two-year cycle. In 2021, VINIDEA and Wine Industry Network (WIN) partnered to broadcast a virtual Enorforum USA to more than 1,000 attendees, and sessions have been re-broadcasted to thousands more. WIN will be sharing updates and videos from the Spanish conference to give our North American audience a flavor of how unique this innovation-focused event is.

Producers, technicians, oenologists and agronomists, researchers and technology suppliers can attend ENOFORUM USA in person to learn about new developments and innovations in the wine sector during five main activities:

1. Scientific sessions with keynote lectures by internationally renowned researchers;
2. Educational sessions with the technology resulting from recent R&D activity of leading suppliers;
3. Trial tasting sessions of experimental or commercial wines obtained with innovative technologies;
4. Product demos of new technologies developed by leading suppliers; and
5. An exhibit hall where companies will have technicians available to exchange ideas on the latest developments in technology.

Topics will include a wide range of ideas and innovations in winemaking and production from France, Spain, Italy and beyond, including:

• How climate change impacts composition, wine quality and aroma;
• How non-invasive digital sensing technologies can help winegrowers adapt to the challenges of climate change, labor shortages and rising production costs;
• The promise of Lactobacillus strains as an alternative to Oenococcus oeni for malolactic fermentation in sparkling white wine production;
• Live tasting demonstrating the effects of different Liqueur d' Expedition on the aromatics and profile of sparkling wine;
• Demonstration of a novel computer vision method for optical grape sorting;
• The impact of organic, biodynamic and conventional production processes on Chianti DOCG wine and the resulting CO2 production impact on the environment; and
• An experimental case study of two modes of yeast inoculation.

The line-up of events and educational seminars VINIDEA and WIN are bringing to the May ENOFORUM USA promises to propel the US industry forward by sharing the results of international oenological research and the latest innovations in winemaking and production.

Don't miss ENOFORUM USA, coming to you live and in-person on Wednesday, May 11th, at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds. For more information on this event, visit the Enoforum USA website.

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