Overview

• President Mikhail Kovalchuk said applying systemic grape genetics can help Russian winemakers outpace foreign competitors.
• Researchers reported that foreign counterfeiters increasingly use technical grape varieties rather than sugar, spirit and dyes.
• The institute says its chromatographic methods can quickly identify a wine’s varietal composition with near‑100% confidence to flag fakes.
• Kurchatov’s computing resources, once focused on nuclear physics, are now 70–80% devoted to genetics, supporting a genomic‑geographic atlas and yeast strain selection for specific terroirs.
• The program for the fourth Russian Winemaking Forum on November 12–13 in Moscow was presented, with plans to discuss practical deployment of these research results.