Plumpton Industry Research Symposium

Plumpton Wine Division is the UK's centre of excellence for wine education, research and training. It is also the only Higher Education Institution to offer undergraduate degrees in International Wine Business  and Wine Production in English in Europe. The college also offers an MSc in Viticulture & Oenology, a nationwide Viticulture Apprentechsip scheme and short courses. All the courses combine academic and vocational studies and the college also boasts 10ha of vineyards and a winery onsite producing award winning english wines under the Plumpton Wine Estate umberella. All students who attend Plumpton Wine Division have the opportunity to get involved. Plumpton Wine Division is part of Plumpton College and based near Brighton.

Plumpton Wine Division

Inaugural Annual Wine Industry Research Symposium

Good applied research underpins the profitability and success of agricultural industries, including wine industries, around the world. The UK wine industry is both small and young in comparison to other industries. While it behoves us to learn from other research being done in other wine regions, there is a role for local, contextualised research and development that is cognizant of our unique conditions and specialist products. An important component of any of our degrees at Plumpton is the research project. It allows the student some freedom and creativity and demonstrates an ability to independently develop research questions and conduct, analyse and report on the outcomes. Although these projects are necessarily short term, they can provide extremely useful insights and knowledge to industry.With all of these things in mind, we are pleased to announce our inaugural Annual Industry Research Symposium on the 18th February 2022. The UK’s centre of excellence in wine education, training, and research, has selected ten recent graduates across our three major courses to share their research and subsequent insights into the English and Welsh wine industry.From the other side, it is of benefit for our students to work on ‘industry relevant’ projects, so involvement of industry is critical for helping to identify viable research topics and, in fact, the whole process. The research papers will be delivered by the students and hosted by the program managers for BA (International Wine Business), BSc (Viticulture and Oenology) and MSc (Viticulture and Oenology), in turn. At the end of each presentation, webinar guests will be invited to ask questions and discuss implications. In many ways, this envisaged two-way interaction is the major aim of the day.TIMETABLE - the event will be hosted as an online webinarWELCOME 09:00 - 09:05 Jeremy Kerswell, Principal of Plumpton College INTRODUCTION09:05 – 09:15 Dr Gregory Dunn, Curriculum Manager, Wine DivisionBSc (WINE PRODUCTION) - Dr Akshay Baboo09:15 – 10:15 	Clonal evaluation of potential fruitfulness in Chardonnay across sites in a UK vineyard (Samantha Williams)Recreating ancient recipes, and winemaking techniques in a modern-day context: roses, citrus leaves and amphorae (Hannah Quayle)Effects of vineyard management on flavour and aroma compounds in Bacchus (Tamasine Herriott)BA (INTERNATIONAL WINE BUSINESS) - Paul Harley10:30 – 11:30 	Impact of Covid-19 on the English and Welsh wine industry presented (Lucy Sawyer) The Effects of Covid-19 on English Wine Producers (Andrea Quirrenbach)The barriers of trading fine wine in the on-trade (Edmund Cole)MSc (VITICULTURE &amp; OENOLOGY ) - Dr Heber Rodrigues11:45 – 13:00 	“This wine makes me feel…” – An investigation on consumers emotional reaction to sustainable wine (Charles Negus)English Sparkling Wine vs Champagne: A study examining the impact of the “Champagne Effect” on English consumers’ perception (Neil Walker)Have the Wines of the New World and Old World become more difficult to differentiate? With an Initial Exploration of why that may be so. (Philip Hedger) Determining whether blending before MLF impacts the kinetics, the chemistry and the sensory analysis of base sparkling wines in the UK (Zoe Driver)SUMMARY13:00-13:10	Simon Thorpe, CEO of WineGB

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