Paper short abstract:

The double-pruning technique allows late harvest grapes to make "Winter wines", during the drier months and with greater thermal amplitude, mild nights, and sunny days. Thus, vineyards have been introduced in regions with specific climate conditions, which can be affected by extreme climate events.

Paper long abstract:

Since the 1980s, viticulture has occupied unimagined regions for vineyards. Examples include the establishment in areas with little tradition with viticulture in the United States, in European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands, and in China. This phenomenon also finds an echo in Latin America. In this context, the present work focuses on the new territories of vineyards and wines in Brazil. Areas that, were practically unthinkable in having vineyards of Vitis vinífera to produce fine wines, emerged in the twenty-first century. Territories of the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Goiás, are some examples that will be addressed, which have the support of technologies developed in the research centers. One of the greatest advances was developed by the Agricultural Research Company of Minas Gerais, responsible for the establishment and development of the technique of double pruning or inverted pruning. The double-pruning technique allows late-harvest grapes to make "Winter wines", during the drier months and with greater thermal amplitude, mild nights, and sunny days. This double-pruning technique was mainly responsible for these new wine frontiers in Brazil. Thus, vineyards have been introduced in regions with specific climate conditions, which can be affected by extreme climate events.

The private sector disseminated the technique with commercial nurseries and consultancies for the implementation of vineyards in these regions. We will also discuss the establishment of profiles that are distinct from the wineries established in the South of the country.

(Thanks to CNPq and FAPESC for the Scholarship and financial support).