"The grapes are ripening like they used to. The vines are finishing their cycle quite normally, with no heat stroke either on the leaves or on the bunches." - Gauthier Hugues, farmer
Carried out in collaboration with Société du Canal de Provence, this project is our first demonstrator on vines, and more specifically on one of the most widely planted grape varieties: Grenache. This grape variety is heavily affected by decline problems on a national scale, so the aim of climate protection is to perpetuate this emblematic crop of Provence while maintaining the yield and quality of the wine produced.
A new, more vigorous control zone, located 300 metres to the north, has been selected from 2023 onwards. This will serve as a comparison, with vines of the same age and grape variety as those under dynamic shading.
Crops: vines (grenache)
Crop management: conventional
Technology: translational shade
Power: 84 kWp
Surface area: 0.15 ha
Design: 8 rows facing south
Control area: 300m to the north-west, approx. 600m²
In service since: 2020
The results obtained from this demonstrator on a wine-growing vine, an emblematic variety of the Provence region, confirm our hypotheses on vine-related climate protection.
Pierre-Antoine Chuste, Head of Ombrea's R&D department
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Domaine du Petit Arbois
Avenue Louis Philbert 13100
Aix-en-Provence
contact@ombrea.fr
+33 7 57 08 14 34