News from Wine Innova Tech 2024 🌟by Francesca Bridgewater UK

Announcing the creation of the WineTech Private Fund in Chile focused on revolutionising the wine industry by tackling climate change head-on 🍇💸♻️🌎

The international seminar Wine Innova Tech, held at Viña El Escorial in Panquehue Terroir (Aconcagua Valley) and Palacio Rioja in Viña del Mar, brought together investors and business angels to pave the way for South America’s first WineTech Private Fund.

🗺️ Valparaiso Region, with its unparalleled agroclimate and soil diversity, was the perfect backdrop for this groundbreaking event. Stretching 4,000 kilometres from Easter Island to the Andes Mountains, this region is home to the renowned wine valleys of Aconcagua, Casablanca, Marga Marga, Quilpue, Villa Alemana, Lo Abarca-San Antonio-Algarrobo and Leyda.

📕🥂🍷 A particular highlight was the Aconcagua Valley, with a rich winemaking tradition dating back to 1870. Visionary Don Maximiano Errázuriz planted the first French grapevines here, inspiring many other wineries in the valley including Narbona Wines, Viña Peumayen, Viña Sanchez de Loria, Viña Von Siebenthal and Viña Baron Knyphausen at Llay-Llay.

Key seminar topics included:

🌎 Strategies to combat climate change

♻️ Creating new products from surplus grapes and wines

🍇 Promoting biotechnological advancements to preserve the genetics of ancestral vineyards

🏩 Attracting investment in real estate and wine tourism, with a focus on thematic hotels and lodges

🚀 Wine Innova Tech 2024 showcased the unity of Valparaiso’s wine valleys in facing climate challenges together. Supported by the Regional Productive Development Committee of Valparaiso and the Viraliza Corfo program, the seminar fostered networking and research, revealing hidden sub-valleys and terroirs. With backing from the Convention Bureau of Viña Del Mar, local tourism departments with allied organizations and media partners, the event was declared a resounding success.

 “It’s only through working collaboratively that we can really drive innovation and sustainability across all aspects of the wine trade!» concluded Max Morales, Senior Project Manager

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