Harvest-plan: why predict?

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...

This should happen more often …

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...

Progress, slow but sure …

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...

Vinteloper’s Urban Winery project

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...

Another vintage down …

… 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...