News

Selected global news about PIWI grapes and wines, summarized and enriched with expert commentary. Articles are drawn from scientific publications, trade press, and producer communications across Europe and beyond.
Piwi Varieties on the Rise: Germany's Fungus-Resistant Grapes Offer a Narrow Ray of Hope Wachstum der robusten Rebsorten Germany's fungus-resistant Piwi vines — Pilzwiderstandsfähige Rebsorten in full — grew their planted area by 10% in 2025, reaching around 4,000 hectares, while the wider vineyard landscape
Occhipinti Unfiltered: Sicily, Marsala, PIWI, and Twenty Years of Territory Over Trend Arianna Occhipinti Arianna Occhipinti speaks from Vittoria's red soils with the authority of more than twenty harvests: Frappato and Nero d'Avola over resistant varieties, Marsala's return to its ox
Spain's PIWI Bet: Resistant Garnacha and Godello Are Coming — Eventually Variedades PIWI Itacyl and Agromillora planted nine PIWI — fungus-resistant — varieties near Valladolid in 2018.
The Ice-Breaker Gets His Prize: How Ulrich Fischer Made PIWI Wines Respectable Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fischer vom DLR Rheinpfalz mit Peter-Morio-Preis 2026 geehrt For years, skeptical winemakers dismissed fungus-resistant PIWI varieties as a compromise too far. Fischer showed up with nine years of genomic data and a talent for talking to growers.
PIWI Grapes in Italy: The Vineyard Wins, the Market Stalls, and the Law Doesn't Care Green rows, bureaucratic chains PIWI varieties slash fungicide use by up to 75% and cut CO₂ emissions by 40%. Italian growers know this. The science is settled.
Piwi Varieties Under the Mediterranean Sun: When Resistant Grapes Actually Deliver Resistant vines rewrite southern heat A study published in the Italian Journal of Food Science compares two PIWI-resistant Merlot clones with the traditional variety in one of Italy's hottest and driest wine regions.
Puglia's Piwi Wake-Up Call: Almost a Decade of Institutional Paralysis on Resistant Vines Puglia's Piwi Wake-Up Call Italy's largest wine-producing region seems to have missed a major shift.
The Thurgau Winemaker Who Bet Everything on Resistant Grapes — And Won Die Zukunft gehört robusten Sorten While Swiss viticulture groans under climate pressure, falling sales, and uprooted vines, one Thurgau estate has been quietly proving the establishment wrong for three decades.
Irresistibile Piwi Wine Festival: Italy's Resistant-Grape Crusade Reaches Its Third Edition Il primo piwi wine festival italiano alla scoperta dei vitigni resistenti (piwi) Sixty-plus producers, 180-plus labels, masterclasses, and a scientific congress pack two days inside a 14th-century Venetian customs house.
Irresistibile Piwi: Wine Festival Focused on Fungus-Resistant Grape Varieties at Lake Garda Da “Derthona Due.Zero” a Tortona ad “Affinamente” a La Collina dei Ciliegi, ecco gli eventi A wine festival dedicated to Piwi grape varieties is scheduled for 26–27 April 2026 at the Dogana Veneta in Lazise on Lake Garda.