A success the third edition of ENOFORUM SPAIN.
At the two-day wine innovation event in Zaragoza, 500 technicians attend presentations of innovative solutions from researchers from 10 countries and 28 leading companies in the industry
The third edition of Enoforum Spain, which took place at the Zaragoza Fair Congress Center on April 20 and 21 and was attended by as many as 500 conference attendees, has concluded. After the first in-person edition in May 2018, the pandemic had forced a virtual edition in 2020, which nonetheless expanded attendance to as many as 1,500, with significant involvement from South America as well.
“The success of Enoforum,” says Gianni Trioli, founder of Vinidea and creator of Enoforum. lies in representing, for technicians who make innovation, a unique opportunity to acquire in a short time all the information necessary to be able to successfully transfer a new technology into their own production: the principles and scientific basis of a new practice, details about the equipment or products that allow its application in the cellar or vineyard, the experience of colleagues, the elements for a preliminary cost/benefit analysis. All of this can be found at Enoforum ”.
Enoforum’s numbers give a measure of the amount of information available to industry technicians.
The congress program included 43 papers, 23 of which were scientific papers from university researchers and 20 technical papers from R&D managers of innovative companies. 6 tasting sessions, attended by more than 200 congress attendees, provided concrete examples of the results that can be achieved with the new techniques. 28 innovative companies presented the results of their R&D activities, with congress reports, with demonstrations and tastings, at booths in the exhibition area. There were 6 European projects Horizon, Life, Cosme presented at Enoforum.
According to Paloma Caldentey of Vinidea, coordinator of Enoforum Spain 2022, ”technicians and companies responded enthusiastically to the offer of an event finally in presence where they could meet and exchange experiences and opinions from recent years. The organization of such a large and complex event requires a strong commitment over many months, but a good collaboration developed between the Vinidea team, the Excell Iberica team, Feria de Zaragoza and the various media partners, which allowed Enoforum 2022 to be held with great public participation and without any technical problems ”.
Enoforum 2022 was organized in collaboration with GIEnol (Grupo de Investigacion Enologica), PTV (Plataforma Tecnologica del Vino), SIVE (Società Italiana di Viticoltura ed Enologia) and Enomaq (whose next edition in attendance is scheduled for February 2023). In addition to the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), the event has received the patronage of the associations and colleges of oenologists of Rioja, Extremadura, Canarias, Aragon, Castilla-la-Mancha, Valencia, Cataluña and Galicia, as well as the FEAE (Federacion Española de las Asociaciones de Enologos).
The involvement of institutions and associations in the Spanish wine world is the work of Antonio Palacios of Excell Iberica, who in closing the event said ”the 3 goals of Enoforum 2022–participation, internationalization, sharing innovations–were all successfully achieved. The participation of 500 people makes Enoforum the largest Spanish congress in the sector. More than half of the congress papers (25 out of 43) were presented by foreign speakers, from 9 different countries. The quality level of the innovations described was very high, as were the interactions of technicians with authors of public and private research .”
