by Ric | October 31, 2014 | The business, Vintage Planning
Harvest-plan aims to ease the vintage planning process by producing non-linear harvest predictions of grape maturity. Non linear predictions can be hard going even for expert mathematicians with specialist statistical modelling software. It calls on a body of...
by Ric | October 22, 2013 | Wine
Last weekend was the annual weekend away with a bunch of friends – a couple of nights away in some salubrious location for a break from the everyday, and usually a fair bit of wine and food. We hit up the Barossa Valley, one of South Australia’s prime...
by Ric | April 22, 2013 | The business, Vintage Planning
While it might seem that not much has been happening around here, in fact the quiet is because of work getting done. Not so much by me, I should add – but my colleague Marc has been hard at work on our prediction model, with help from a sizeable winery who have...
by Ric | March 9, 2012 | Wine
David Bowley of Vinteloper Wines isn’t afraid of a new idea. Witness his experiment with a “fold-up” winery in the depths of his home city, Adelaide. In an effort worthy of Renew Adelaide, DB has taken over the courtyard of a retail premise that has been empty...
by Ric | July 18, 2011 | The business, Vintage Planning
… and an interesting one it was. Given its difficulties, I wonder whether better planning may have made a difference to some wineries 🙂 On that – we have been making some changes to the registration process for Harvest-Plan that we hope to unveil soon. The...