LEARNING TOUR VINHALIENCE • ALENTEJO 2026 - 27

Photo credit: Faísca de Lisboa, Portugal

The Mastermind on climate and social issues for committed wineries.

You’re already driving change. Plant cover, regenerative hydrology, intra-plot agroforestry, R&D networks like Vitilience… Your practices are solid. Your initial commitments are concrete.

But in the face of the sudden acceleration of climate-related hazards—spring frosts, intense summer droughts—it’s time to scientifically validate your choices and take them to the next level.

Through the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Program (WASP), the region has become a pioneering global laboratory for viticultural resilience. The Vinhalience Learning Tour offers you an exclusive space for technical and strategic challenges among peers.

"Imagine your climate future."

What you’ll gain from this: Analyze real-world data to ensure your income without relying on artificial irrigation. Leave here with concrete ideas for strengthening your property’s ecological resilience.

Field benchmark. Compare your agroecological choices—living soils, late-ripening grape varieties—with the concrete results of Portuguese dry farming. Observe water management, biodiversity, and innovative farming practices under conditions that your estate will face in 15 years.

Field benchmark. Compare your agroecological choices—living soils, late-ripening grape varieties—with the concrete results of Portuguese dry farming. Observe water management, biodiversity, and innovative farming practices under conditions that your estate will face in fifteen years.

the climate mirror

Humans against the crisis

Human capital as a response to the crisis

While the current approach in France all too often boils down to subsidizing the planting of new vineyards, come discover wineries that started from scratch and built their revival around people. Director, farm manager, winemaker, cellar master, sales manager—experience this as a team.

While the current approach in France all too often boils down to subsidizing the planting of new vineyards, come discover wineries that started from scratch and built their revival around people. Director, farm manager, winemaker, cellar master, sales manager—experience this as a team.

What You’ll Gain: Explore the WASP’s strategies for reducing physical strain, enhancing the technical agricultural occupations, and retaining managers and employees year-round. Turn this cost into an asset for safety that promotes rural vitality.

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What You’ll Gain: Explore the WASP’s strategies for reducing physical strain, enhancing the status of technical agricultural occupations, and retaining your managers and employees year-round. Turn this cost into an asset that promotes safety and rural vitality.

the value of the commitment

An in-depth look at the circular economy, with a focus on the dynamics of Soil & Wine Residues. Learn how the first two pillars translate into tangible, sustainable economic benefits. Meet a WASP representative—a key point of contact, regulator, and catalyst for change in the region.

An in-depth look at the circular economy, with a focus on the dynamics of Soil & Wine Residues. Learn how the first two pillars translate into tangible, sustainable economic benefits. Meet a WASP representative—a key point of contact, regulator, and catalyst for change in the region.

What you’ll gain from this: Learn how to turn 100% of your pruning waste—branches, pomace—into soil mulch or secondary business opportunities.

BENCHMARK • DEEP DIVE• TRANSFORMATION

OBSERVE • DISCUSS • TAKE ACTION

4 SESSIONS PER YEAR

UPCOMING DATES: AUGUST 2027

It is the only region in Europe to have formalized climate resilience on a region-wide scale—through the WASP program. Nearly 80% of the region’s vineyards participate in the program. The Alentejo is a real-world laboratory, built on documented practices.

We’re back with real data, peer-reviewed insights, and a glimpse of what the next twenty years have in store for us. Sometimes it’s a recipe—it’s always a compass.

Climate-related decisions affect the entire estate. Bringing the team together on-site—in a neutral setting—transforms intentions into collective decisions. Vinhalience is more than just training: it’s an act of governance for your estate.

Why the Alentejo and not another region?

Coming back with some recipes to try?

Coming back with some recipes to try?

Why come as a team instead of alone?

How big are the groups?

Three to five professionals from the same field per session. Our format is deliberately exclusive—each session is tailored to your specific situation, your projects, and the decisions you’re currently facing. This is not a group seminar.

Is Vinhalience suitable for our region and grape varieties?

Yes—the content of each session is tailored to your specific situation: location, vineyard size, grape varieties, current practices, and priority issues. We set the framework; you define the questions you’ve come to address.

Why Visit the Alentejo—the three pillars, the format, the session content, and initial practical information.

Your personalized program will be co-designed to ensure maximum effectiveness.

French translation of “Into The Heat / No Calor” by Nick Breeze—the text that inspired Vinhalience. An immersion in the wine-growing Alentejo, between resilience and dedication.

Translation: Didier Malozon, with the kind permission of the author.

See the OV by Nick Breeze

We will contact you within 48 business hours. Your information will be used to organize the session and will never be shared.

Our sessions are fully booked through the end of the first semester of 2027. The next available spots will be in the second semester of 2027—Let us know your preferred dates now so we can reserve a spot and arrange your visit to the Alentejo.

Each session is tailored to your field. Please let us know your specific situation and the time frame that works for you.

Rachel BROCARD / Didier MALOZON

AMPLIFY PORTUGAL • VINHALIENCE