International wine research partnership to benefit global wine industry

(AWRI) - Three of the world’s leading grape and wine research organisations, the Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ISVV) (Bordeaux, France), the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) (Adelaide, Australia), and the Hochschule Geisenheim University (HGU) (Geisenheim, Germany), have joined forces in a new wine research alliance.

The alliance (informally known as the ‘BAG’ alliance) will bring strategic benefits to the grape and wine industries in the three member regions through exchange of people, projects and information.

Alliance members will share infrastructure and expertise across the grape and wine value chain.

The Government of South Australia is supporting the new alliance through the Premier’s Research and Industry Fund.

Managing Director of the AWRI, Dr Dan Johnson said “This alliance paves the way for a new era of cooperative innovation in grape and wine science, allowing the partners to address globally-relevant challenges and minimize duplication.”

HGU president, Prof. Hans Schultz said “The ‘BAG’ Alliance will form an international platform which will allow a faster, more comprehensive and cost-effective treatment of transnational research issues for the grape and wine industries.”

Research Director of ISVV, Prof. Serge Delrot said “The alliance will provide a basis for more efficient and better integrated research on issues of shared concern in our three countries and beyond”