BRI’s Extension team deliver and disseminate research findings, supporting knowledge transfer so that members can make better-informed decisions for their businesses.

The Extension team produced or contributed to 110 outputs in the 2022-2023 financial year.

Browse some of the outputs below

Fact sheets

• Scorecard: Hail damage assessment
• Frost management supplement: Industry Q&A
• DIY Soil Health Test
• How lessons learned from Cyclone Bola can help deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle

Popular articles

• Long spur pruning as an alternative to cane pruning for Sauvignon Blanc in Marlborough
• Improving the use of mealybug insecticides
• Getting a handle on vineyard soil health
• Viticultural treatments for improving Syrah quality
• Managing hail-damaged vineyards in New Zealand
• Identification of chemical markers contributing to Pinot noir quality through the integration of consumer sensory perceptions with phenolics and volatile compounds
• Ground wētā in the Awatere
• Sauvignon Blanc 2.0: Resilience through diversity
• Management approach has a small but significant effect on vineyard soil biodiversity
• Introducing the new BRI rootstock trial
• Potted vines: exploring the management effect of leaf area to fruit weight ratios on yield and quality
• Extraction and reaction
• Field trials: Yield-quality interactions found in individual vines
• The quest to find ideal vines…
• Potential applications of nanotechnology for winegrowers in New Zealand
• Does bunch or berry size matter?
• Field trials: results from alternating bud load trials
• Management of grapevine trunk disease using remedial surgery

Science reports (NZW login required)

• Key lessons from the 2019 spring hail events in Hawke’s Bay and North Canterbury
• Weevils in New Zealand vineyards
• Pinot Noir from diverse regions and price points (and with differing yields)
• Understanding the green and herbaceous characters in Pinot noir wine and their role in driving judgments of perceived quality
• Long spur pruning as an alternative to cane pruning for Sauvignon Blanc in Marlborough
• Climate Case Study: Managing hail damaged vineyards (Hawke’s Bay and North Canterbury, Spring 2019)
• Assessing foliar fertiliser for grapevine frost recovery 2020-2022
• Glyphosate leaching potential across soils in the Vineyard Ecosystem Programme
• Missing and dead vine progression model
• Pinot Noir Programme: Grape berry culture
• Pinot Noir Programme: Manipulating the yield-quality seesaw via competing sinks
• Pinot Noir Programme: Manipulating the yield-quality seesaw via bunch microclimate
• Pinot Noir Programme: Understanding the impacts of modifying the LA:FW ratio on the yield-quality seesaw for Pinot noir
• Pinot Noir Programme: Ideal vines and wines
• Pinot Noir Programme: Pinot noir grape and wine phenolic profiling
• Pinot Noir Programme: Untargeted profiling of the volatome: Studying the effect of matrix composition on the temporal evolution in Pinot noir wines
• Pinot Noir Programme: Bunch sorting
• Pinot Noir Programme: Validation wines
• Pinot Noir Programme: A machine learning pipeline for predicting wine quality from viticulture data: development and implementation