Technologies used in Growing New World Vines
As New World wine makers are free from any restriction and rules from their European counterpart, they are able to many uncharted territories in wine making. Though technology has improved the quality of wine, it is still unarguable that natural environment like soil and climate gave good quality grapes hence producing quality wine.
New world wine makers are able to plant anywhere they want and this gave them the opportunity to research on the environment of the vineyards , contributing towards research and developments.
Usage of GPS
Some wine makers used GPS to mark out the path which harvester took so as to know the batch of grapes being harvested in each plot of lands. Lands which produced high quality grapes are then being researched upon.
Cloning Grape Variety
Grapes which have a high quality traits like the ability to ripe early or resistance to pest are being clone and replicated in other vineyards. One of the risk is that we will not how these clone will react to soil in other vineyards.
Vine growth pattern
The way these vines grew are also being researched on. Compared to the traditional Old World thinking that vines have to struggle upwards in order to be of a higher quality, New World method depends on how the vine is being supported to kept its shape. This is to ensure that they all the leaves are well exposed for photosynthesize and also to protect from diseases. The amount of vines in a given space is also another factor.
Irrigation
As the survival of vines is dependant on water, controlling the amount of water may influence the quality of the crops. Traditional Old World wine makers believed that irrigation results in lousy wines which are quite irrelevant, thus giving New World wine markers an advantage in the controlling of water.
Machinery
Both of them uses machineries to increase their efficiency in harvesting and they are more cheaper than workers. Traditional wine maker might argue that hand-picked grapes are still the better.