R&D projects

VITELITE24 is an R&D project that aims to develop high-performance physiological and genomic methods for the efficient improvement of the following elite Spanish grape varieties: Albariño, Viura, Tempranillo, and Garnacha. This will promote sustainable and resilient viticulture in the face of the challenges of climate change.

LOWpHWINE is a consortium research and experimental development project that aims to study the effects that different soil and vine conditions can have on the acid composition of grapes and wines, in a context of climate change.

The Ibero-American cooperation project IBEROGEN (Spain - Argentina), led by Bodegas Roda will study the genetic diversity of grape varieties in Iberoamerica (Tempranillo and Malbec) in order to select genotypes or lines more adapted to climate change conditions and morphotypes with greater tolerance to wood diseases. Bodegas Roda will work with its own collection of clones from its germplasm bank.

Bodegas RODA through VINySOST project aims to respond to the main scientific-technical challenges of the wine sector which, betting on sustainable production in vineyards, seeks to increase the competitiveness os our wines nationally and internationally. This is a project in partnership from CIEN programme (CIEN, is the acronym of the Strategic Programme of National Business Research Consortiums managed by CDTI) constituted by 8 companies and supported by 10 Spanish Research organizations, which has a fundable budget of 7.45 M €.

Bodegas Roda has achieved its increasing competitiveness through an exhaustive study of the vineyard management and breeding techniques. Within this framework, the strategic goal of the project is to help the European vineyard sector facing the increasingly global competition.

The global warming is clear; it has been said by the Intergovernmental Group of Experts about the Climate Change (IPCC) in its 27th Plenary Session (Valencia 2007). It exists a great uncertainty about the space and temporal importance of the climate change and at this juncture, the wine-growing sector has the duty to develop adaptation strategies, including technological innovations, new systems of use of the vineyard, a better management of water resources and a greater basic knowledge to obtain quality wines that meet the consumer demands.

This project came about in response to concerns at Bodegas Roda as to finding out which grape characteristics and wine-making practices enable a greater phenolic and aromatic extraction. In this research, which was performed in coordination with the Universities of La Rioja and Salamanca, a selection was made of what were considered the best individuals of the seedbank and of the cv.

This project came about as a result of our concern to find out more about our indigenous grape varieties. It is a project that has been set up in coordination with the Universities of Rioja and Salamanca with the aim of studying the phenolic profile of our indigenous varieties, Tempranillo and Graciano, together with the profile of the wine during the different phases of the wine-making process. Knowledge of the phenolic profile of our varieties and our wines during the different phases of the wine-making process has helped us to use those viticultural practices and wine-making techniques that produce more structured, attractive, elegant and round wines, such has been achieved in our excellent RODA wines.