APHVIN / GEHVID - Portuguese Association
     
 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 

With regard to national cooperation, APHVIN / GEHVID - Portuguese Association for the History of Vine and Wine, will continue the path already outlined by GEHVID - Study Group on the History of Viticulture and Port Wine, now extended to a spectrum broader in the geographical area, which will naturally correspond to a search for new partnerships. Thus, in terms of cooperation with the Municipal Councils of the municipalities located in the national wine-growing regions, cooperation protocols are planned to meet the investment needs of these municipalities in historical research, in various fields (History of Vine and Wine) but also in related areas such as the history of culture, material and immaterial heritage, etc.). In a first phase, the municipalities of the Demarcated Region of Vinhos Verdes have already been contacted in this regard. There will be municipalities connected to the other national wine-growing regions. In terms of Religious History, a segment where wine is often approached, in viticulture and in the culture linked to the rituals where the presence of this product is felt, we will continue to count on the collaboration of the Religious History Studies Center of the Catholic University of Portugal. Moreover, the study of Portuguese Catholic elites linked to viticulture, intersects with the scientific work developed in both research structures. The Center for Vitivinicultural Studies in the Douro Demarcated Region - Ministry of Agriculture, will continue to collaborate with APHVIN / GEHVID, in particular in the indication of places of study in the region, identifying specific characteristics of the research interest of some members of our Association . We refer specifically to the studies of farms, typologies of vineyards, indications about grape varieties implanted in the territory and their reflections in the Douro landscape. In the context of Oral History, this organism will also continue to indicate to researchers that develop field work in this area, people very close to sectors of activity of particular interest for our research, such as farmhouse owners, overseers, administrators, veteran rural workers, basket weavers, boatmen from the Douro, etc. On our part, the Center for Viticulture Studies in the Douro Region will benefit from the contribution of History, which is always necessary to a regulatory entity for planting and setting up the vineyard in the Demarcated Region, so that, when authorizing new plantings and preparing the land,

 

             2010 Aphvin / Gehvid