IDENTIFICATION OF THE MOST VALUABLE GRAPEVINE VARIETIES OF WHITE WINE FOR HUŞI VINEYARD BY ANALYTICAL HIERARCHICAL PROCESS
ELENA-COCUŢA BUCIUMEANU 1, DIANA ELENA VIZITIU 1*, LUCIAN DINCĂ 2, VLAD CRIŞAN 2 1. National Research and Development Institute for Biotechnology in Horticulture, 37 Bucuresti-Pitesti Road, 177715 - Stefanesti, Arges County, Romania, e-mail: ebuciumeanu@yahoo.com; vizitiud@yahoo.com.
2. Marin Dracea” National Research and Development Institute in Forestry, 128 Eroilor Boulevard, Voluntari, Ilfov, 13 Cloşca Street, Braşov 500035, Romania, e-mail: dinka.lucian@gmail.com; vlad_crsn@yahoo.com
* Corresponding author’s
The work purpose was to apply the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) method for ranking and selecting grapevine varieties, to assess the market demands for developing a program of setting up new plantations in a near future in Huşi Vineyard, one of the oldest vineyards of the Moldavian Hills Viticultural Region. Seven grapevine varieties of white wine (Aligoté, Băbească gri, Donaris, Ozana, Pinot gris, Riesling italian, Fetească regală) and fourteen criteria (quantitative and qualitative)were used in the AHP exercise. The analyses were carried out using the Expert Choice Desktop software. Ozana, Băbească gris and Aligoté genotypeswere selected as having the greatest potential for Huşi vineyardfrom the group of white wine genotypes taken into the study.The work can contribute to the maintaining of a durable viticulture, to quality white wines production and a more reliable future of the viticultural area.
