The Science of Stress with Dr. Scholasch: How Water Shapes Wine Quality

Join us for a lunch with Dr. Thibaut Scholasch, co-founder of Fruition Sciences and one of the world’s leading authorities on vine water status and its relationship to fruit composition, yield, and wine quality.

Dr. Scholasch’s work is grounded in over two decades of sap flow research and applied vineyard physiology, and he has reshaped how growers and winemakers in regions from Napa to Bordeaux think about irrigation and the impacts it has on climatic adaptation and wine quality.

In this talk, Dr. Scholasch will cover:

• How vine water stress (and the timing of it) drives anthocyanin, tannin, and sugar accumulation
• Practical tools for measuring vine water status in real time, beyond visual cues and soil moisture alone
• Yield-quality tradeoffs: when reducing yield actually improves quality, and when it’s a wasted sacrifice
• How these principles apply specifically to the climatic and soil conditions of the Okanagan Valley

This is a working session for growers, vineyard managers, winemakers, and researchers who want to move past rules-of-thumb irrigation scheduling and toward a physiologically grounded, data-informed approach.

Details:

📅 Tuesday, July 7th

🕐 11:00 a.m.

📍 Le Vieux Pin

🎟️ Free with RSVP

Lunch will be served. Q&A to follow.