The VITOUR network at Eurogusto (Tours)

An active presence at Eurogusto 

Two round tables 

 These discussion forums are scheduled to take place in the Cafe gourmand, with testimonies from site managers and wine growing professionals: 

Friday 18 November at 6pm: 

Heroic wine growing – Steep hills, terraces and dry stone walls: challenges for wine growers and countryside managers. 

Participants: Cinqueterre (Italy), Wachau (Austria), Rhine valley (Germany), Haut Douro (Portugal), Lavaux (Switzerland). 

Saturday 19 November at 5pm: 

Wine growing cultural landscapes – What added value can be gained from UNESCO World Heritage listing? 

Participants: Fertö-Neusiedlersee (Austria), Tokaj (Hungary), Montalcino (Italy), l’ïle Pico (Azores Archipelago - Portugal), Loire Valley (France). 

An exhibition and tastings 

Throughout the event, an exhibition will be held in the Eurogusto tasting room to promote Vitour network sites as well as the good practices implemented to preserve their remarkable landscapes. 

Vitour site representatives will be there to talk about what they have been doing and to give tasting sessions of wines from their regions. 

On the internet: 

• Eurogusto

Taking part in Viniflore (49)

Vitour representatives, including wine growers, will meet up on the morning of Saturday 19 November at the Edgar Pisani Wine School in Montreuil-Bellay which is organising this event and where wines from different agricultural colleges, not just from all the wine growing regions of France, but also from some European wine growing regions, are offered for tasting and sale by students studying wine growing, making and tasting at the school. 

On this website:

• VINIFLORE, an educational and commercial event

Vitour Landscapes

 The cycle of themed technical seminars ended in September 2011 in Parndorf in Austria where the Mission Val de Loire, devoted to the preservation of river banks, lakes and coastlines, held a UNESCO landscape workshop on maintaining and improving the banks of the Loire, the findings of which should be published in the near future. 

Download:

• Atelier UNESCO du paysage « Entretenir et valoriser les berges de Loire » (PDF, 499.48 kB)

A working group was held in October in the Douro to prepare initiatives aimed at spreading good practice and transferring good practice from site to site, which is what the network will be working on until the end of 2012. 

Spreading good practice is the main subject of a dedicated website   db.vitour.org which already lists all the good practices presented at technical seminars. 

This website is participatory: any manager, professional or researcher can submit a piece of good practice in terms of wine growing landscape management and comment on other good practice. 

On the internet:

• VITOUR good practice databas

On this site:

• World Heritage vineyards