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Partnering for a stronger industry Students for hire Although Canada’s grape and regions can be separated Looking to hire vineyard, by up to 6,000 km, the key winery or retail staff? issues and concerns facing Our students and growers and winemakers are the same. graduates are skilled in That’s why Brock University’s winemaking, Cool Climate Oenology and and wine business. Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) has Students in the Oenology been working to partner with Canada’s academic and and Viticulture (OEVI) industry experts to develop, program at Brock and more easily transfer, University are seeking solutions to the challenges they jobs for harvest 2013. face. Atlantic Wine Institute Director Donna Sears and CCOVI Director To have a position “The regional knowledge and Debbie Inglis toasting a new partnership Credit: Sandra Symonds international connections each posted: partner brings to the table will “The agreement will allow us sector collaborators that are call 905 688 5550 x 4949 to foster relationships with – spread across Nova Scotia, New allow us to address the or email Canadian grape and wine and create connections among – Brunswick, Quebec, and industry’s research needs,” said researchers in one of Canada’s British Columbia. [email protected] CCOVI Director Debbie Inglis. other premiere wine regions, Research areas that the In May, Brock and Acadia opening opportunities for all of partners have identified as What’s inside University signed a our partner institutions,” Sears priorities include agriculture Memorandum of Understanding added. and economic sustainability, Fellow release new 2 (MoU) that will facilitate The pact with Acadia builds terroir-based wine quality in book on an MoU signed previously regional styles, market knowledge exchange and joint 2013 Triggs Lecture 2 projects in areas across the between CCOVI and Agriculture competitiveness and wine and Agri-Food Canada’s Pacific tourism. Graduate students grape and wine value chain 3 between CCOVI and Acadia’s Agri-Food Research Centre This partnership comes at a receives scholarship (PARC). Pat Bowen, a research time when the Canadian Atlantic Wine Institute. Students explore scientist with PARC, says that Vintners Association estimates 3 The Atlantic Wine Institute is careers in science a multi-institutional initiative the alliance with CCOVI has that the industry contributes opened a rich new channel of Summer conference involving Acadia, Nova Scotia $6.8 billion a year to the 3 Community College, Saint research collaboration and Canadian economy and provides roundup Mary’s University, Holland knowledge exchange with more than 31,000 jobs but still CCOVI welcomes 3 College, Collège Ontario experts. has room to grow. Currently, new team members Communautaire du Nouveau- Although the MoUs represent the industry has a domestic a more formalized association, market share of 30 per cent. New graduates Brunswick, the Winery receive degrees 3 Association of Nova Scotia and CCOVI has also been working to Researchers estimate that the Grape Growers Association develop partnerships between this partnership could increase Minister visits Brock 4 of Nova Scotia. government and industry the annual economic impact to For Donna Sears, Director of organizations. $10 billion over the next 10 Donald Ziraldo the Atlantic Wine Institute, the These coast-to-coast years through increased wine named to hall of 4 fame partnership extends the spirit of partnerships include 13 sales, both domestically and collaboration and connection government and academic internationally, product Publications 4 that is the institute’s focus. institutions and 25 private commercialization and tourism. Graduate student receives scholarship Coming up at CCOVI Are you a winery getting your lab ready for harvest? Caitlin Heit, a MSc candidate “allowing me to further Consider enrolling in our Calibrate Your Lab juice in Biotechnology, is the latest concentrate on my studies analysis workshop to test the accuracy of your recipient of the Dr. Joseph A. and research endeavors.” equipment. Register between Aug. 15 and Sept. 3 at Peller Graduate Scholarship in Heit is working under the brocku.ca/ccovi/outreach-services/calibrate Oenology and Viticulture. supervision of Dr. Debbie CCOVI’s annual preharvest monitoring program will The $5,000 award is given Inglis. Her thesis is focused on start again Aug. 27. To see how Niagara’s grapes are to a student who investigating hyperosmotic progressing visit: ccovi.ca/preharvest demonstrates outstanding stress in wine yeast during CCOVI’s wine appreciation exploring varietals class is academic achievement and high sugar fermentations, and back this fall running Mondays from Sept. 16 to Dec. 9. shows compassion to others. the impact on metabolite Learn more at: ccovi.ca/ce/courses “This scholarship has formation and its link to The Niagara Wine Festival will once again feature helped to relieve financial redox balance. educational sessions co-hosted by CCOVI. Educate Your burdens,” Heit says, Senses food and wine seminars in Montebello Park in St. Catharines on Sept. 21 and 28, at 1, 3 and 5 p.m. East vs. West: A Winemaker Showdown, a new event to CCOVI Fellow releases book the festival, will be held Sept. 22 and 29. For more details visit: niagarawinefestival.com Cool Climate Oenology and

Viticulture (CCOVI) Fellow Wine Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 2 will be Jeffrey Stuart released a new offered at CCOVI running Wednesdays from Oct. 9 to book in April, Bioactive Dec. 4. Register at: ccovi.ca/ce/courses Polyphenols from Wine Grapes. Triggs lecture returns Penned with his former graduate student Ellen Robb, Kobus Hunter, an international viticulture expert from the book examines the South Africa, has been the presenter of the 2013 Triggs biochemistry, health benefits International Premium Vinifera Lecture Series. and therapeutic potential of It looks at resveratrol and Organized by the Cool Climate Oenology and wine grapes. similar antioxidant Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), the event marks the eighth This academic text is the compounds such as in the series and the second time that it will be held in first-of-its-kind to provide a pterostilbene, piceid and both Ontario (Aug. 21 and 22) and British Columbia (Aug. comprehensive overview of viniferins in grapes and then 27 and 28). the subject and compiles the discusses the reports linking “The grapevine is an extremely forgiving entity,” significant research the pair these compounds to various Hunter says, “but with great potential for product have completed. beneficial health effects. excellence. Achieving the latter requires understanding and skill from both viticulturists and winemakers.” Experimenting with careers in science The format, with vineyard visits and a public lecture allows for participants to hear more about Hunter’s The Cool Climate Oenology CCOVI’s activity was practical principles for increasing grape and wine quality. and Viticulture Institute called the “Yeast Crime” and To help ensure that this year’s event could be held in (CCOVI) was pleased to once students had to determine if both provinces, BASF Canada, a company that provides again participate in Brock one of the spoilage yeasts crop protection products to the grape industry, stepped University’s annual found in the winery infected a up as a new sponsor. Scientifically Yours event held wine. “The events in Ontario and British Columbia promote in May. The two-day workshop The activities gave the innovation and excellence in a unique sector that we are is designed to encourage students exposure to what proud to be associated with,” said Scott MacDonald, Grade 11 girls to continue they could expect to see over Horticulture Marketing Manager with BASF Canada. their studies in science at the their undergraduate career. The Ontario public lecture will be taped and added to university level. the online video archive by the end of Aug. CCOVI News | Summer 2013 2 Wine conferences celebrate research and education

Winemakers, grape growers and For the first time, researchers academics alike went back to school dedicated a session to the growing this summer during three international impact that social media is having on wine conferences held at Brock the wine industry. Recognizing this, University. panelists discussed how wineries could The conferences, the best use the social tools available to Experience, Academy of Wine Business them. Research Conference and the The conference papers presented International Cool Climate Chardonnay will be available online on AWBR’s Celebration, were an opportunity to website. hear from international experts, tour vineyards and learn about the latest Riesling Experience participants compare Global Perspectives on Chardonnay wine research findings. vintages during the ageability talk The International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C) kicked off The Riesling Experience On day two, participants headed out their third annual event at Brock on into the field for vineyard tours with Wine enthusiasts, industry personnel July 19 with the Global Perspectives on some of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s pioneer and media gathered on June 11 and 12 Chardonnay panel. growers. for an unabashed celebration of Moderated by British wine expert Riesling. Stephen Spurrier, the international Day one of the conference featured Academy of Wine Business Research panel included winemakers Marimar keynote sessions from Cornell From July 12 to 15 the Academy of Torres, Jacques Lardiere, Thomas University’s Terry Acree on the sensory Wine Business Research (AWBR) brought Bachelder, François Morissette and local aspects of Riesling, Nik Weis, General their conference to Canada for the first grape grower Albrecht Seeger. Manager at St. Urbans-Hof winery, time. The group examined ways that examined the ageability of Riesling and Hosted by Brock’s Goodman School globalization of the wine industry has the LCBO’s Kathy Cannon finished the of Business, CCOVI, and Vineland influenced the viticulture practices, session with a discussion about Riesling Research and Innovation Centre, the winemaking decision and marketing of in the world market. The day ended conference welcomed over 60 Chardonnay. The lively panel discussion with a tasting of Canadian and academics from eight countries who was followed by a tasting of the international during a dinner gathered to discuss all aspects of wine panelist’s cool climate chardonnays, at Ravine Vineyard. business. and a question and answer period.

New staff members join CCOVI team New crop of graduates The Cool Climate Oenology and Eric Humes graduated with an MSc in Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) has Biotechnology under the supervision of recently welcomed three new team CCOVI Director Debbie Inglis. Humes’ thesis members. examined methoxypyrazine removal in Belinda Kemp is CCOVI’s new grape juice. Senior Scientist in Oenology. She joins CCOVI from a position at Kerrie Pickering graduated with an MA in Plumpton College in the United From left: Shufen Xu, Belinda Geography under the supervision of CCOVI Kemp and Anna McGrath Kingdom. Kemp has a PhD in Fellow Tony Shaw. Pickering’s thesis looked Oenology and Viticulture from Brock and in the hospitality sector. at assessing the adaptive capacity of the Lincoln University, New Zealand. She Shufen Xu is CCOVI’s new Ontario wine industry to climate change. will work in tandem with viticulturist Technologist and will run and Ellen Robb earned her PhD in Biological Jim Willwerth to provide research maintain the Analytical Services Sciences under the supervision of CCOVI and outreach support to the industry. laboratory and analytical resources. Fellow Jeffrey Stuart. Robb’s thesis looked Anna McGrath takes on the role of Xu joins CCOVI from a laboratory at the cellular mechanisms of resveratrol’s Administrative and Accounting Co- manager role at Trent University. interaction with mitochondrial reactive ordinator brining with her significant To contact CCOVI staff visit: oxygen species metabolism. experience from previous positions at brocku.ca/ccovi/about-us/contact

CCOVI News | Summer 2013 3 Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame Ontario Research and Innovation minister visits CCOVI to induct CCOVI advisor Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation Reza Moridi stopped by Brock Aug. 8 to see first-

hand the applied research, inventions and innovation being undertaken at the University. The minster toured CCOVI’s Hall and heard about the research and outreach activities that have made the institute an internationally recognized centre for grape and wine research. Minister Moridi learned more about what Brock researchers are doing to better understand how climate change is impacting Ontario’s grape and wine industry. This work is supported by a Donald Ziraldo will be inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame $2.86 million grant from the Ministry of Research Donald Ziraldo, an adviser to concept will be important to the and Innovation’s Research Excellence program. Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and future success of agriculture and it Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), is one respects the provenance of the of four individuals announced as food farmers grow, which is very Publications the latest inductees into the important to the consumer.” Business Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame. The Canadian Agriculture Hall Hills, S., Voronov, M. and C.B. Hinings Ziraldo is a pioneer of the of Fame honours and celebrates (2013). Putting new wine in old bottles: industry, putting Canadians for outstanding Utilizing rhetorical history to overcome domestically produced on contributions to the agriculture stigma associated with a previously dominant the map in Canada and around the and food industry. The induction logic. Research in the Sociology of world. He is being recognized as ceremony will be held Nov. 3, 2013 Organizations, 39: 99-137. the co-founder of Inniskillin at the Royal Agricultural Winter Voronov, M., De Clercq, D. and C.B. Hinings winery, the driving force behind Fair in Toronto. (2013). Conformity and Distinctiveness in a the Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) “This is a well-deserved honour Global Institutional Framework: The program and for his instrumental for Donald,” CCOVI Director Debbie Legitimation of Ontario Fine Wine. Journal role in establishing CCOVI. He is a Inglis said. “It recognizes the of Management Studies, 50(4): 607-645. member of CCOVI’s executive and pivotal role he played in shaping Briefs advisory committee and also co- the current Canadian wine industry Business chaired the capital campaign that and his foresight in seeing the Kettle, K. and A. Mantonakis (2013). Look for founded the wine institute. value that research plays in the Signature: Personal Signatures as a Cue “It’s a great honour,” said developing an industry, by for Quality. Academy of Wine Business Ziraldo, “and an acknowledgement establishing CCOVI.” Research Conference, Niagara, ON, June 14, to an agriculture sector - Ziraldo was also recognized 2013. viticulture - that takes a product earlier this year with the Queen Clemente, S., Dolansky, E., Mantonakis, A. from the soil, through the Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee and K. White (2013). The Effects of processing stage, packaging and medal. The award recognized Perceived Product-Association Incongruity creates a value-added finished 60,000 extraordinary Canadians on on Consumption Experiences. Academy of product: wine. the 60th anniversary of the Wine Business Research Conference, “I believe this value-added Queen’s ascension to the throne. Niagara, ON, June 14, 2013.

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