Abstract

Climate change modifies the content and phenolic profiles of grapes and wines. It is known that high temperatures, related to climate change, reduce anthocyanins and procyanidin (catechin and tannin) compounds accumulated in the berries. In recent years, with the aim of improving the phenolic composition of the berries, the technique of crop forcing has been proposed to delay grape ripening to a more favourable period of temperatures. In this study, crop forcing was applied to cv. Tempranillo vines on two different dates, after flowering (F1) and after fruit set (F2), and compared to a treatment control (NF, without forcing). Additionally, as a secondary factor, two irrigation strategies were established in each treatment: irrigation with no water stress, and a pre-veraison deficit irrigation. The study was carried out in three consecutive years (2017-2019). For most of the parameters analysed, no interaction was found. Therefore, for these parameters, the effect of each of these techniques was investigated independently. Regardless of the irrigation strategy, F2 berries achieved higher contents of catechins and anthocyanins than NF berries. Each year, regardless of the irrigation strategy, crop forcing increased the content of monoglucoside forms, and had a positive effect on the total content of malvidin, petunidin, delphinidin, peonidin and malvidin derivatives, but only affected acetyl and coumaryl forms in 2017. However, the effect of irrigation strategy was less significant and consistent, being more dependent on the vintage. Regardless of vine water status, crop forcing technique applied after fruit set could be used by vine growers to delay ripening of the grapes and thus achieve an increase in the anthocyanin characteristics of the grapes. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.

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