THE EFFECTS OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY EVIDENT. THAT IS WHY THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY URGE TO ACT TOWARDS THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND TO SEARCH AND TO IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE ADAPTATION TO THE NEW SITUATION. CONSIDERING THE TEMPERATURE AND THE RAINFALL DATA FORESEEN, IT CAN BE INFERRED THAT THE SPANISH WINEMAKING SECTOR WILL BE ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO THIS EFFECTS. IN FACT, THERE IS AN INCREASING GAP BETWEEN SACCHARIMETRIC AND PHENOLIC MATURITY. RECOVERY OF BY-PRODUCTS FROM WINEMAKING SECTOR (RAW CHIPS FROM COOPERAGE, AND GRAPE SEEDS FROM OVER-RIPEN GRAPES) IS A NEW AND SUSTAINABLE OENOLOGICAL STRATEGY TO ALLEVIATE THE EFFECTS OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE IN WINES. CHIPS FROM BARRELS ARE NATURAL SOURCE OF PHENOLICS. ONE CAN HYPOTHESIZE THAT CHIPS USED IN THE INITIAL STAGES OF RED WINE VINIFICATION PROVOKE CHANGINGS IN ITS ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS, IN PARTICULAR IN COLOUR. IT CAN BE EXPECTED THAT THE ADDITION OF CHIPS DURING WINEMAKING IMPROVE COLOUR STABILISATION DUE TO AN INCREASE OF THE COPIGMENTATION PHENOMENA. IN TURN, THE PHENOLIC COPIGMENTS FROM GRAPE SEEDS WITH HIGH DEGREE OF MATURITY SHOULD INCREASE COLOUR STABILITY WITHOUT AN INCREASE OF GREEN ASTRINGENCY. THE USE OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE VISIBLE-NIR SHOULD ALLOW ESTABLISHING IN A FAST AND OBJECTIVE WAY, THE OPTIMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE BY-PRODUCTS AS WINEMAKING COADJUVANTS. THAT WILL BE VERIFIED IN THE LABORATORY AND IN THE WINERY. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COLOUR AND ASTRINGENCY MAKES THAT ACTIONS PERFORMED TO THE AIM OF ACT ON ONE OF THESE CHARACTERISTICS HAVE REPERCUSSION ON THE OTHER. THE ADDITION OF EXOGENOUS SOURCES OF POLYPEHNOLS WITH THE AIM TO DIMINISH NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COLOUR NEEDS TO BE ASSESSED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE INTENSITY AND QUALITY OF THE ASTRINGENCY THAT THESE COMPOUNDS COULD GIVE TO THE WINE AND, IN SOME CASES, TO ACT FOR MODIFYING IT. ALTHOUGH IT IS ACCEPTED THAT ASTRINGENCY IS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS, THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SENSATION ARE NOT CLARIFY. WE EXPECT THAT THE USE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES JOINT TO THE MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION TECHNIQUES WILL HELP TO GO DEEPER INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ASTRINGENCY FROM A MOLECULAR POINT OF VIEW.