Innovation and Trends in the World Wine Industry: What’s New?
VinitechThe International Wine, Fruit and Vegetable Exhibition is held every two years at the Parc des Expositions in Bordeaux, France. Symposiums, conferences and forums are held there to shape the most important meeting of technological innovation in the wine industry worldwide..
It is a privileged scenario to observe the main trends, advances and innovations in the wine industry, and this year it took place from November 29 to December 1. There was Esteban Tablón, Rutini’s Head of Artificial Intelligence, who had the opportunity to tour it and shared his experience and main impressions with the rest of the team.who had the opportunity to visit the winery and shared his experience and main impressions with the rest of the team, which allows us to follow up on current events in the world of winemaking and how we are positioned in our region and our winery in relation to technological This allows us to follow the current situation in the wine world and the way in which we are positioned in our region and our winery in relation to technological advances, production methods, the concepts with which we work, among other novelties.among different novelties.
In its development, a large number of advances congruent with our own practice could be seen, related to barrels, fermentation techniques and aging in wood. Most notably, most of the machinery related to crushing, grape handling, fermentation and parking now has automatic data generation.. Si bien el diseño electromecánico no ha variado sustancialmente -aunque siempre se adicionan mejoras marginales- sí se ha incorporado el registro de los data on what the machinery performs in terms of operations and the various parameters used at the time of processing such as temperatures, volumes and laboratory variables (e.g. sugar and alcohol) digitally. In this way, information is recorded that can be accessed after processing, with the courage it takes to achieve ever more ambitious goals..
Another trend that Esteban highlights from the Vinitech tour and from prestigious wineries in the famous French region where it is organized – as well as from some located in Spain – is the implementation of industrial traceability. In other words, it is the process that leads from the grape to the wine to be bottled, as well as from the bottled bottled wine itself to the final consumer, with technology that is also implemented today at Rutini. through special tags (Prooftag) that allow such tracking.
Finally, a point of coincidence between tradition and technology that adds to our pride in the winemaking team we have: small producers (each with about 8 hectares of vineyards) from both France and Spain, with whom Esteban has been able to talk and exchange experiences, carry out on their estates a plant-by-plant selection of bunches of grapes. plant-by-plant selection of clusters. Esta es una práctica que han llevado a cabo por cien años de manera artesanal, cosechando de modo individual las viñas y de acuerdo a aquellas vides que, por su conocimiento empírico, darán los mejores vinos. At Rutini our team has implemented an analogous procedure but using precision technology applied to vast surfaces that allows us to distinguish the fruit of each vine thanks to digitalization, drone photography and high-definition pixels from artificial intelligence. This results in products with very specific aromatic profiles, character and identity..
Going out into the world allows us to contrast and review the paths we take. Places with a high winemaking tradition offer us a counterpoint full of richness and allow us to value our practices, improve them, continue them and always think of more. Because we are sure that Argentina always has a lot to give, we always bet on a rich exchange.
