Viticulture

Lesson Code: 4.2

Semester: 4^th Semester

Category: Compulsory

Hours: 4h Theory + 4h Lab

ECTS credits: 10

 

LEARNING RESULTS

The course aims to impart to the students the required knowledge regarding the establishment, cultivation and maintenance of a vineyard, so that they are able to cultivate the vine in different ecosystems, applying at the same time the most appropriate forms of education according to the variety and the soil and climate environment, achieving a high quality production.

After the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. To know the principles governing the establishment of a vineyard and to apply the cultivation of the vine in different ecosystems.
2. To know the different forms of formation and fruiting, so as to choose the most suitable ones, depending on the variety, the soil-climatological environment and the destination of the produced product.
3. To know the cultivation care and techniques that must be applied in a vineyard, so as to optimize the quality of the grapes produced.

 

General Skills

• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, also using new technologies.
• Respect for the environment and biodiversity.
• Adaptation to new situations.
• Decision making.
• Autonomous work.
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• Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking.

 

COURSE CONTENT

Theoretical part

Establishment of productive vineyard and mother plantation: Reshaping and restructuring of soil – Basic fertilization – Direction and distances of planting – Criteria for selection of varieties and rootstocks.

Formation of the vine: Shapes of formation (cup-shaped – linear) and fruiting of the trunks in different climatic environments, Principles and methodology of winter pruning, Flower pruning (coring, budding, defoliation, trenching, load thinning, application of phytoregulatory substances).

Propagation of the grapevine: Methods of production of propagating material – Certified viticultural propagating material – Micropropagation and tissue culture.

Cultivation care and techniques: Soil cultivation – Mechanical soil treatment systems – Crop and weed competition – Biotechnical weed control systems – Vineyard irrigation systems – Vineyard fertilization (inorganic, organic) – Mechanized leafing, spraying and harvesting operations.

Vine cultivation methods: Sustainable viticulture – Integrated vineyard management –Organic / Biodynamic vineyard cultivation. 

 

Laboratory Part

Grafting methods: Spring – Summer – Autumn Grafting

Winter and Summer pruning methods

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. NIKOLAOU N.A.: AMPELOURGIA. (Publisher): Christina and Vasiliki Kordali O.E., Thessaloniki 2020, ISBN: 9789603571360.
2. Tsakiris A. VINEYARD FOR QUALITY WINES. PSYCHALLOU PUBLICATIONS, ATHENS 2016, ISBN 9786185049386.
3. HOFMANN U., KÖPFER P., WERNER A. (2003): VINEYARD – ORGANIC CULTIVATION. PSYCHALLOU PUBLICATIONS, ATHENS, ISBN 9608336104.
4. JACKSON RONALD: Wine Science: Principles and Applications. Academic Press 5th edition 2020, ISBN 9780128161180.