This talk will present my observations on the conditions for cultivating grapevines in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia, and compare them with the conditions for viticulture in Eastern Germany and Alsace. I have been monitoring climate change in Southern Finland for 20 years, and I will talk how it has affected the success of grapevines in my own “experimental […]
In 2020 a breeding and selection project was initiated in cooperation with the breeders at the Julius Kühn Institute in Germany resulting in the establishment of the company ‘FastGrapes’ in 2021. Since then more than 50 genotypes have been selected and is now planted in test fields in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Northern Germany, Latvia and Belgium. The focus in FastGrapes […]
Today, European winegrowers face several severe challenges they have never experienced before. On the one hand, there is the ongoing climate change, which threatens viticulture in established regions with higher temperatures and highly variable weather conditions. But it also allows the production of wine in new regions previously thought too cold for grapevines. On the other hand there is a […]