Grape growing crawls to the North Situation in Finland Ari Markkula - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Cold climat seminar Heppenheim 2010 Grape growing crawls to the North Situation in Finland Ari Markkula ari.markkula@omenakumpu.com

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Vineyards to the best places

1- 2 weeks earlier in the spring…

Varieties used in Finland • Traditionally Beta over 100 years • Baltic and Russian varieties during the last 5-10 years to home gardens – Zilga, Hasanski Sladki (Baltica), Supaga, Sukribe, Jubilei Novgoroda… • From Central Europe – Rondo, Bianca, Siegerrebe, Solaris… • Crafted vines since 2008 through a local reseller 

Skujins 675 and Hasanski Sladki in a garden

First year solaris. Notice the 3 sheets of a newspaper covering the soil.

Small vineyard at the end of August

Publicity of grape growers in Finland • 2008 first grape wine bottled and sold officially • Finnish Grape Growers Association – Established 20.3.2010 – Two basic courses held with 60 participants together • Rootstock research starting – Will be made by the National Agricultural and Food Science Research Center – Important, because • Shows official interest for vine growing • Gives publicity • Is a step towards official recognition that vine grows in Finland • Gives some information of rootstock usability in one of the best areas and soil types for vine growing

Some members of the executive committee of the Finnish Grape Growers Association. From the left: Juha Karvonen (precident), Günther Brüninghaus, Ari Markkula (secretary), Mariusz Swietalski.

Wine tasting at the seminar, March 20, 2010 Andris Dishlers is pouring the wine he had made. In the front is one of the members of the executive committee Timo Taskinen, who has had over 1000 vinifera plants on a open field test in Finland.