The Breganze winery has entered into a voluntary agreement with the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea (MATTM), which sees the entities involved involved in the calculation and reduction of the environmental footprint of one or more products. under the guidance of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua .
"We believe that the Environmental Passport initiative is an opportunity to build the bases of more sustainable processes for the sake of our hills and future generations - declares Maria Vittoria Maculan , oenologist - The resistant vines allow in fact to reduce treatments by ten / eleven that are generally practiced in the territory for only one or two . "
Since 2017 Maculan has chosen to follow the path of vines resistant to fungal diseases, also known with the German acronym PIWI , planting 4000 vines of Merlot Khorus and Sauvignon Rytos, two varieties selected by the University of Udine, and subsequently 4300 vines of Cabernet Volos. The project provides for the replacement, over a decade, of the older vineyards with PIWI, varieties obtained from intraspecific crossings with the change of only 5% of the chromosomes, that is, those responsible for the effects of diseases on grapes.
This has attracted the interest of researchers from the University of Padua who have therefore decided to certify the procedure within the Environmental Passport project, financed by the Rural Development Program of the Veneto Region following the increasingly stringent Environmental Footprint guidelines of European Union.
