Future Winegrowing Platform

This “Future Winegrowing” platform investment in Bragato Research Institute is distinct from the previous establishment support provided to BRI.

The Future Winegrowing platform will develop six areas. These areas of focus in the programme all have a research, development, and extension component, and in some cases, may utilise BRI’s unique capabilities to develop new services for winegrowing and its support sectors. Each project will create new knowledge through research and development, and then use extension and other service delivery options to deliver benefit to the winegrowing sector, and beyond. Consistent with BRI’s purpose, the programme will address the current and ongoing challenges of productivity, profitability, and economic, environmental, and social sustainability for winegrowers. A key focus will be resilience in an increasingly changeable and uncertain global environment. Underpinning each of the focus areas is an intention to develop capabilities and offerings that will, together, support BRI’s ongoing financial sustainability.

The Vineyard Systems project is an ambitious initiative to conduct a first-principles examination of how changes to vineyard design and viticultural practices could enhance the productivity, profitability, sustainability and resilience of viticulture in NZ. The programme will be built on an understanding of the physiology of grapevines in NZ conditions, and the way in which vineyard systems interact with the physical environment.

A Soils and Environment project will address key environmental management challenges and opportunities facing the winegrowing industry, seek to develop new approaches to enhance sustainability through improved environmental management of winegrowing businesses – particularly with respect to soil health, and help winegrowing businesses maintain and enhance environmental performance and compliance.

An Accelerating Technology project will support and facilitate applied research to enhance the uptake of technology and data-driven solutions into NZ winegrowing. The benefits of this project will be economic, environmental and social, as a wide range of technologies enhance business management and support skills development in the sector.

A Testing and Trial services project will bring together BRI’s unique combination of viticultural expertise, science capability and research winemaking to deliver scientifically robust answers to questions that challenge our viticulturists, winemakers and supporting sectors. The project will include a focus on BRI’s three established areas of expertise, namely winemaking, applied research/extension, and grapevine improvement.

BRI’s research winery will be the focus of a project to find new ways in which this modern food research facility can utilise spare off-peak capacity to deliver research or production services to beverage, food and biotechnology businesses within, or outside the wine sector.

BRI will also investigate the establishment of a Focus Vineyard network, to enhance the extension and uptake of new knowledge in winegrowing regions, and to encourage the winegrowing industry to invest in science at all levels.

This “Future Winegrowing” platform investment in Bragato Research Institute is distinct from the previous establishment support provided to BRI.

The Future Winegrowing platform will develop six areas. These areas of focus in the programme all have a research, development, and extension component, and in some cases, may utilise BRI’s unique capabilities to develop new services for winegrowing and its support sectors. Each project will create new knowledge through research and development, and then use extension and other service delivery options to deliver benefit to the winegrowing sector, and beyond. Consistent with BRI’s purpose, the programme will address the current and ongoing challenges of productivity, profitability, and economic, environmental, and social sustainability for winegrowers. A key focus will be resilience in an increasingly changeable and uncertain global environment. Underpinning each of the focus areas is an intention to develop capabilities and offerings that will, together, support BRI’s ongoing financial sustainability.

The Vineyard Systems project is an ambitious initiative to conduct a first-principles examination of how changes to vineyard design and viticultural practices could enhance the productivity, profitability, sustainability and resilience of viticulture in NZ. The programme will be built on an understanding of the physiology of grapevines in NZ conditions, and the way in which vineyard systems interact with the physical environment.

A Soils and Environment project will address key environmental management challenges and opportunities facing the winegrowing industry, seek to develop new approaches to enhance sustainability through improved environmental management of winegrowing businesses – particularly with respect to soil health, and help winegrowing businesses maintain and enhance environmental performance and compliance.

An Accelerating Technology project will support and facilitate applied research to enhance the uptake of technology and data-driven solutions into NZ winegrowing. The benefits of this project will be economic, environmental and social, as a wide range of technologies enhance business management and support skills development in the sector.

A Testing and Trial services project will bring together BRI’s unique combination of viticultural expertise, science capability and research winemaking to deliver scientifically robust answers to questions that challenge our viticulturists, winemakers and supporting sectors. The project will include a focus on BRI’s three established areas of expertise, namely winemaking, applied research/extension, and grapevine improvement.

BRI’s research winery will be the focus of a project to find new ways in which this modern food research facility can utilise spare off-peak capacity to deliver research or production services to beverage, food and biotechnology businesses within, or outside the wine sector.

BRI will also investigate the establishment of a Focus Vineyard network, to enhance the extension and uptake of new knowledge in winegrowing regions, and to encourage the winegrowing industry to invest in science at all levels.