Bodegas Martín Códax has just received the prize HG&T-AGAXET in the category I+D and formation as the winery leader of the project Innter Gal-Eno 2012, in the context of the XV Soiree of the Tourism and the Gastronomy of Galicia celebrated in the Main Theater of Pontevedra.
The director of thewinery, Juan A. Vázquez Gancedo,collected the prize that he talked about the importance of the research and the development in the field of the viticulture and of the primary sector and of services in the moments that we live. “Those that have always been wine growers think in the results of the well done work and in a life linked to ours lands and traditional values” – it declared Vázquez Gancedo. “This form of life gives us a vision that us allows to predict a Galicia of the post-crisis based on the primary and tertiary sector, but we only will be able to reach this dream with collaboration and with innovation”, concluded the director of Boellars Martín Códax.
Also representatives of the rest of cellars that form part of the project (Cellars Valmiñor, Cellars Moure, Cellars Reitoral of Amandi, Palace of San Mauro and Virxen de Galir) as well as of the Mision Biológica of Galicia (MBG-CSIC), of the Technological Institute of Galicia and of the Polytechnic University of Madrid went to this event.
The project INNTER GAL-ENO 2012, led by Bodegas Martín Códax, was born within the framework of the program INTERCONNECTA promoted by the CDTI (Technological and Industrial Center of Development) with the aim of promoting the value of the Galician autochthonous wine-yielding varieties to elaborate products and differentiated wines of high quality; redesigning the processes of production to reduce the costs; carrying out a viticulture more respectful with the enviroment and improving the banks of commercialization. The nine varieties that the project incubates are the Albariño, Godello, Treixadura, Laurel, white Canine, Mencía, Castamal, Merenzao and dark Canine.
The scientific part of the project was ordered to the CSIC and to the ITG that the works of research carry out through the group of viticulture of the Biological Mission of Galicia and of the area of Technological innovation of the ITG. They have also the collaboration of the Unviersidad Politécnica of Madrid.
To reach the goals of this project, that it will situate Galicia in the vanguard of the technology and of the generation of knowledge in the national wine sector, it will be analyzed the grape harvests of years 2012, 2013 and 2014; vines will be monitored through a system of wireless sensors nets and the obtained data will be analyzed to be able to elaborate models of illnesses notices.
In essence, the project INNTER GAL-ENO 2012 intends to know in depth the Galician varietal potential through the analysis and detailed study of the data obtained from essays in field multifactorial that will allow knowing the optimum conditions for the crop of every variety, in every specific “terroir“. Through the development of predicting models adapted to the Galician viticulture, also strategies of control, capable of preventing illnesses and plagues, will be able to be applied.
