Terrior and Viticultural Zoning

Question 1

Terrior definition

Answer 1

includes specific soil, topography, climate, landscape characteristics and biodiversity features of a specific area

Question 2

What the terrior definition excludes (4)

Answer 2

1. Ranking among different terroirs and neighboring vineyards
2. Commercial constraints
3. Appellation by origin and Yield limitation.
4. Limitation to entrepreneurial spirit

Question 3

Define viticultural zoning

Answer 3

the study of a geographical area aiming to characterize homogeneous zones showing a similar viticultural and ecological potential

Question 4

what are the three territorial deliminations

Answer 4

1. Climate based classifications
2. Soil based classification
3. Ecological classifications

Question 5

Zoning part 1 what it allows for

Answer 5

1. Improve the knowledge of a territory based on climactic, geological, and soil variability
2. Understand which factors affect the fruit composition and consequently the quality of wines from a given territory
3. Discover a different varietal performance/profile when growing in different environments

Question 6

Zoning part 2 what it allows for

Answer 6

1. Discover areas where top-quality wines can be produced
2. highlight areas with low or very low wine-growing potential

Question 7

What are the Four steps for developing viticultural zoning

Answer 7

1. Preliminary studies
2. Climactic characterization Terrior
3. Soil Characterization
4. Interactions between genotype and TERROIR

Question 8

Four steps of the preliminary Studies

Answer 8

1. Find out historical information referred to the area;
2. Study of the cartography;
3. Study of historical series of climatic data;
4. General knowledge of the area.

Question 9

5 Steps for Climactic characterization terrior

I, I, C, E, D

Answer 9

• Identification of existing weather stations;
• Integration with new stations installed in representative sites of the area (es.: top or valley bottom);
• Calculation of bioclimatic indices Winkler, Huglin;
• Extension of bioclimatic indices to the whole territory using a statistical model that takes into account topography (DEM);
• Drawing a climatic map.

Question 10

6 parts of Soil characterization

S, C, D, D, C, D

Answer 10

1. study of the existing soil map;
2. comparison and overlapping with the soil use map;
3. Description of «Landscape units» concerning, slope, aspect and soil composition
4. Digging and description of soil profiles in different landscape units (UP) and soil characterization according to the international Soil Taxonomy
5. chemical and physical analyses of soils sampled at different depth
6. drawing of landscape unit maps.

Question 11

6 Parts to Interactions between genotype and TERROIR

S, T, M, S, W, D

Answer 11

1. Selection of at least two representative vineyards in each UP, having similar traits
2. Three-year monitoring of phenology, plant growth, yield and fruit composition of each studied variety
3. Microvinification processing a sub-sample of fruit
4. Statistical treatment
5. Wine sensory analysis, and description of distinctive profile
6. Description of the winegrowing and enological potential of each UP and delimitation of GRAPE AND WINE TERROIRS represented on a map.