Research

Research to ensure New Zealand vineyards are highly productive and efficient while maintaining premium grape quality for our wines. This includes efforts to reduce seasonal variation, disassociate relationships between vineyard yield and wine quality, and improve vineyard longevity

Driving innovation in the vineyard to continuously improve quality, productivity and sustainability.

Enhancing winemaking capabilities through innovation, to support winegrowers in making consistently exceptional wine.

Supporting winegrowers in their role as guardians of the environment for future generations.

Research to develop and select premium vines optimised for future growing conditions. This includes reduced disease and frost susceptibility, improved water use efficiency, and iconic typicity under future climate conditions. It also includes lowering vulnerability to biosecurity threats.

Research to ensure New Zealand vineyards are highly productive and efficient while maintaining premium grape quality for our wines. This includes efforts to reduce seasonal variation, disassociate relationships between vineyard yield and wine quality, and improve vineyard longevity

Developing innovative growing systems to improve vineyard profitability and productivity while maintaining or improving wine quality. Where there is still a research knowledge gap to address, this could mean trialling, testing, and validating new technology and machinery (start-ups or new-to-wine) to improve vineyard management effectiveness and effciency.

Research that allows winegrowers to achieve sustainability targets by reducing spray applications, while maintaining productivity and quality. This includes vines with enhanced pathogen tolerance, targeted and sustainable novel technologies, systems and models for more efficient disease management, and biological control solutions.

Research that delivers management tools to help improve soil organic matter, fertility, water holding capacity and biodiversity. Research that identifies techniques to manage water use more effectively in vineyards and wineries while protecting existing water resources and quality.

Research that adds value to winery and/or vineyard waste streams through reduction of waste and/or the creation of secondary products. Research supporting the Roadmap to Net Zero, e.g. reduction of carbon footprint, or the development of new and improved sustainable packaging solutions.

Research that aims to provide winemakers with new winemaking additives, innovative techniques and new technology that will improve wine quality, and/or winery productivity, and retain wine quality through to the consumer. This could encompass research that supports the development of new product streams such as NOLO and DRV, or bulk shipment improvements.