News: viticulture

Partnership blends leading wine research capabilities

Waite campus

Today, Monday 12 December, a partnership between the ³ÉÈË´óƬ and the (AWRI) will be cemented with support from . The partnership will benefit the Australian grape and wine sector by improving grape and wine quality and production, and by building business sustainability.

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Vines strike a pose for the new VitiCanopy app

Roberta De Bei

The ability to analyse multiple images at once, GPS capability to create maps of the spatial variability of canopy size, and Cloud storage, are just some of the new upgrades to VitiCanopy, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ-developed mobile app that helps grapegrowers manage their vineyards more effectively.

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Promising new tech to protect grapes from smoke taint

Activated carbon (AC) hood trailed to prevent smoke taint in grapes

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ and Peter Michael Winery are partnering to develop new technology to combat smoke taint in grapes.

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Virtual wine tasting becomes a reality

Wine glasses

³ÉÈË´óƬ students of oenology and viticulture are blind tasting wines in the familiar surrounds of their homes as part of their online learning.

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Technology to transform vineyard management

Vines with pink ribbons attached

Helping grapegrowers optimise their irrigation water use will be one of the first outcomes of a $5 million digital technologies project supporting on-farm decision making for winegrape production.

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