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Sustainability initiatives and experiences in the Sicilian wine industry
2016
The Italian wine sector shows an increasing interest towards sustainability issues. As a result, a wide number of programs and initiatives concerning environmental, social and economic sustainability has been developed in recent years. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the adaptation of the Sicilian wine sector to the new scenario of sustainable productions. To this purpose a direct survey of 5 Sicilian wineries involved in two different sustainability programs, SOStain and Magis, was carried out. The findings of the study reveal that the sustainability path undertaken by the wineries analyzed has led to management awareness that company activities can ensure social and human benefi…
Women of wine in Sicily: analysis of their role, motivation and work
2012
Recent surveys on female employment show that, in Italy, the number of Women Entrepreneurs has constantly increased. This work aims to study the "Women of Wine" in Sicily, those entrepreneurs or managers who hold leadership and decision-making roles within the wineries, focusing on age, qualification, type of activity, motivations that led to undertake the task, difficulties encountered, and also on changes made by women in the firm. By calculating the coefficient of contingency we intended to measure the association between some factors of development of women-run wineries in Sicily, namely between professional characteristics of women managers deemed most important for this investigation,…
Hot winegrape production: Italian lessons
2012
Pneumatic press equipped with the Vortex system for white grapes processing: First results
2019
The interaction between mechanical, computer and electronic technologies offers nowadays highly innovative solutions to be applied to the oenological machinery industry. Grapes pressing for the extraction of must from the grapes has a fundamental role for obtaining wines with high quality. The pneumatic presses commonly used work with a discontinuous cycle, taking on average about 3 hours for the extraction of the juice from the grapes. During this period, the presence of oxygen in contact with grapes can modify the qualitative characteristics of the future wine. The aim of the research was to study the “Vortex System” applied to a pneumatic press and to evaluate the quality of wines obtain…
Influence of grape transport and destemming systems on the quality of Chardonnay wines
2016
The winemaking technology plays a very important role in enology as it directly influences the characteristics of wine. In particular, grape transport and destemming are critical steps in winemaking for the wine quality. The aim of this study was to compare two different processing lines of Chardonnay grapes to evaluate their effects on the quality of the final product. In particular, grapes receiving, transporting and destemming were performed using different machines in order to evaluate their influence on the quality of Chardonnay wines. The use of a receiving hopper equipped with a belt conveyor, followed by a destemmer equipped with partially coated rubber beaters, allowed to obtain Ch…
Candida zemplinina yeasts positively impact wine production: lower alcohol levels and higher glycerol contents
2012
Determination of terpene alcohols in Sicilian Muscat wines by HS-SPME-GC-MS.
2013
Muscat is a grape family used to obtain several sweet, aromatic white dessert wines common in the Mediterranean area. Currently, three Sicilian cultivars (all classified DOC) are known: 'Moscato di Siracusa' the oldest and very rare today; 'Moscato di Noto', a modern derivative of the first and finally 'Moscato di Pantelleria', now the most common. This study concerns the volatile profile of 15 different Sicilian Muscat wines produced in different years using HS-SPME-GC-MS. In particular, four fundamental terpene alcohols (linalool, geraniol, nerol and citronellol) were considered. The principal aim was to study the evolution of aromatic compounds in wine during aging, and the information o…
Il vino nell'opera tra convito ed ebbrezza
2022
Opera e vino sono senz'altro un connubio felice: a chiunque frequenti anche solo sporadicamente il teatro d'opera verrà in mente il famoso "Libiamo" del I atto della Traviata, nel quale si celebra il vino che abbellisce la notte e rende più caldi i baci degli amanti. Nell'opera italiana dell'Ottocento il brindisi (lieto o funesto) è un momento topico, con specifici connotati musicali e drammaturgici; la sua dimensione corale è assente nell'opera barocca, dove invece il vino serve a stigmatizzare i vizi umani. Dopo aver passato in rassegna alcuni dei più celebri momenti in cui vino e opera si uniscono, ci si soffermerà sulla figura comica dell'ubriacone nell'opera del Seicento e se ne metter…
Il consorzio del vino Marsala. Una lettura economico-aziendale della sua storia, evoluzione, declino e possibili scenari futuri.
2020
Since the 1940s, the first initiatives take places to create the Marsala wine consortium. In 1963, the constitution of the consortium actually occurs, making Marsala the only Italian wine whose rules of operation are derived from a state law. For almost 50 years the Consortium was a point of reference for producers, amd actively contributed to the qualitative development of the image of Marsala. However, in 2016, after a glorious hustory, the Marsala Consortium no longer appears in the official ministerial list of consortia of Italiam DOC wines. The main reasons for this, illustrated in the paper, can be traced to the drastic reduction of the adherents to the consortium, to the contrasts th…
L'analisi economico aziendale dei risultati di bilancio delle aziende vitivinicole siciliane imbottigliatrici "grandi" nell'esercizio 2020
2021
Abstract The subject of the previous contribution is the analysis of the financial statements of Sicilian large" wineries bottlers, with particular reference to 2020. The conditions of resistance to the pandemic phenomenon still underway were examined, the strategies implemented to counteract the reduction in turnover and the economic results from the twenty-three companies examined. In general, the companies have shown good sealing ability, despite a generalized loss in turnover of around 20%, in a positive recovery currently underway in 2021.