Frost can be devastating for vineyards, impacting yield and grape quality. Our new frost forecasting tool provides critical, data-driven forecasts, helping vineyard managers take timely action. Integrated with in-field sensors, it delivers highly localized predictions for each part of your vineyard, ensuring you’re never caught off guard.
In particular, our service also forecasts the type of frost which is expected. Radiation frosts are more defendable against, while advection frosts pose a much bigger challenge.
The VineBuddy service consists of an easy-to-use WebApp dashboard, showing the past 30 days of local temperatures, a GDD budburst threshold monitor and 48-hour ahead frost forecasts, with an option to integrate your own within-vineyard weather sensors. The WebApp is complemented by WhatsApp Frost Alerts and the option to call the WeatherQuest Forecast team, when you need to, for peace of mind.
Research and science are fundamental to what we do. We are thought leaders and collaborate with research bodies and universities worldwide. We’re well known for providing best-in-class sector research, viticulture climate science, and strategic and operational expertise to grape growers and wine producers.
If you’d like to commission us or discuss vine or wine related research projects we’d love to hear from you.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs initiated and funded a Farming Innovation Project (FIP) under the Innovate UK banner. The two-and-a-half-year project commenced in 2022, specifically to support the research into groundcover management practices.
The key aims and objectives of the project were to:
With our partners from NIAB, the University of Greenwich, T. Deene & Sons, Chapel Down and Gusbourne we conducted extensive trials, collected data and delivered our results to the wine community on 27 November 2024.
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