Grapevine Capabilites Eurofins Agroscience Services 2010 www.eurofinsagro.com
Grapevine capabilities Diseased vines reduce: Grape quality Yield Ultimately disease affects wine quality EAS Group has conducted many studies on grapevines including: Field Residue Efficacy Dislodgeable Foliar Residue Soil Dissipation Radio-labelled Metabolism Worker Exposure Resistance Testing (using leaf disc method) 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 2
Grapevine capabilities Eurofins Agroscience Services, together with Eurofins STA, can offer a full portfolio of services on Vines for Grapevine diseases: Virus diseases such as Leaf roll, Rugose Wood, Decline/Fanleaf Bacterial diseases such as Crown gall and Pierces disease Fungal diseases such as Black foot, Petri, Cankers These studies are available across Europe and North America 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 3
Grapevine capabilities We have recently performed insect studies including: Leaf Roller Leaf Hopper Grape Leaf Skeletonizer When grown in light soils, grapes offer opportunity for nematode studies Diseases include Botrytis and powdery mildew VINE LEAFHOPPER Feeding punctures of this pest lead to the appearance of necroses - Veins become dry and the leaf lamina turns brown. Scorch spreads from the edge of the lamina to the Heavy infestations sometimes cause leaves to fall as early as August. 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 4
Focus on France 7 stations 8 regions Appilly, Oise (60) (Entreprise Decarsin) St Pierre Bas-Rhin (67) Séné Morbihan (56) Gennes Maine et Loire (49) Rouvres St Jean Loiret (45) Uchizy Saone et Loire (71) Meauzac / St Nicolas Tarn et Garonne (82) Labo ADME, Vergèze Elne, Pyrénées Orientales (66) 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 5
France The EAS Group locations in France cover the most important vine areas : From Meauzac, we can cover SW France with the support of a new vine station close to our Meauzac facility From Rouvres Saint Jean and Gennes, we can cover the «Val de Loire» area Southern vine areas can also be managed from Elne From Uchizy, we offer coverage of Bourgogne and Beaujolais area The Alsace area is covered from Saint Pierre Future : Plans to extend to Bordelais area and south east 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 6
France New Acquisition News! New vine station acquired early 2010 Based in Saint-Nicolas-de-La-Grave, (Tarn et Garonne, Dpt. 82) France Offers coverage of SW region of France More than 40 varieties available including: Cabernet, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Chasselat Chenin noir, Gamay, Gewurztraminer, Grenache, Muscat, Pinot gris, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Semillon, Viognier 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 7
Spain & Portugal In Portugal and Spain, we provide full coverage of the main grape growing areas in these two countries: From EAS Monçao (North of Portugal) we can cover the Rías Baixas, Ribeiro and Bierzo areas in North of Spain and Miño and Douro areas in Portugal Our base located in Zaragoza (North East of Spain) can cover the areas of Alella, Campo de Borja, La Rioja, Navarra and Cariñena From EAS Seville we can cover the vine growing areas of Jerez, Huelva, Córdoba and Condado de Huelva Finally, from EAS Canals at Valencia we can cover the areas of Alicante, Valencia and table grape area of Murcia and Alicante. 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 8
Spain & Portugal We can offer grape downy mildew with irrigated and inoculated trials at any of our sites from May to September Also, we have extensive experience doing trials in powdery mildew, from April to September and botrytis, from May / June to September. Many varieties available for trials including: Chenín, Macabeo, Albariño, Cabernet Sauvignon Monastrell, Tempranillo, Moscatel de Alejandría, Garnacha Tinta, Doña Blanca, Zalema, Palomino Fino Palomino de Jerez, Pedro Ximénez, Viura, Loureira Blanca Loureira Tinta, Malvasía, Merseguera, Trajadura, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Godello and Caíño Tinto 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 9
The USA The EAS Group can conduct trials on vines across the major vine growing areas of the USA The major growing areas for grapes in the United States are: California; San Joaquin Valley Central and Northern Coast regions of Paso Robles Napa valley Willamette Valley of Oregon The Columbia Basin in Washington Finger Lakes Region of New York 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 10
Germany In Germany, about 100,000 hectares of nearly 100 varieties are grown Major wine regions of mid-southern Germany For the white wines Riesling and Müller- Thurgau are perhaps the most important Where red wines are concerned, Pinot Noir and Dornfelder are probably the most important The EAS Group can conduct trials on vines across the major vine growing areas of the Germany 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 11
Contact France christophe.narboux@eurofinsagro.com Spain & Portugal josemaria.lopez@eurofinsagro.com Germany Detlev.dirks@eurofins-gab.com Italy Francesco.picchi@eurofinsagro.com USA Brian.lange@eurofinsagro.com All other regions; please contact dave.clark@eurofinsagro.com 7/14/2010 Eurofins Agroscience Services Group Presentation 12