Refresh your skills or learn new ways to achieve consistent fruit quality and healthy soils with training workshops this June, August and December.
The growing and harvest season in 2024 was a challenge for most winegrowers in the UK. The cool and wet conditions put pressure on vineyard teams across the country.
Unexpected and variable weather conditions will continue to challenge winegrowers as our climate changes. These workshops provide strategies, tactics and options for how to prepare for consistent outcomes.
Viticulture Workshops 2025/26
The season raised questions about how to keep vines healthy and producing quality fruit no matter the weather conditions.
Vinescapes has two new workshops designed to guide viticulturists, vineyard managers and technicians on the options to adapt or adopt practices for continuous improvement and consistent vineyard performance.
Each workshop will explore the opportunities for fine-tuning vineyard tactics such as spray regimes, canopy management and resource allocations to gain efficiencies and prepare effectively for rain or sunshine.
This includes detailed discussions about regenerative techniques and new technologies, which can either support a transition to sustainable winegrowing or a full transformation of wine production strategies.
Preparing for variable growing conditions can prove challenging for any vineyard team. This workshop presents strategies for you to fine-tune and adapt techniques for immediate forecasts and disease pressures, while also building long-term vine health and resilience.
Gain insight into data-monitoring, tech solutions and other options for achieving improved performance, vineyard efficiencies and consistent fruit quality.
Workshops available in Bristol and Sussex
Led by experienced viticulturists Joel Jorgensen and Cameron Roucher, these small group workshops provide a journey through the theory followed by practical instruction and demonstrations in the vineyard.
Cameron pointed out how challenging years like 2024, provide a perfect moment to reflect on practices and revise particular methods to achieve better outcomes.
“This ultimately means creating systems and processes to deliver reliable fruit quality each and every season.
“When we have good seasons, it’s easy to reapply the same formula to our vineyard practices year-on-year,” said Cameron.
If you are looking to adopt some regenerative techniques or transition your vineyard away from conventional methods, this workshop provides both theoretical and practical instruction about the strategies and tactics of regenerative soil management – reaching beyond the fundamentals into the biological systems of our vineyards.
Workshops available in Somerset and Surrey
“A year like 2024 demonstrates how our practices need to be both economically and environmentally sustainable.
“In these workshops we will identify what we can do to prepare the soil and vines for variable conditions and discuss potential strategies to fine-tune the economic performance of each vineyard site.”
The goal of these workshops is to build greater consistency, confidence and capability across the UK wine industry, fundamentally delivering quality outcomes, which benefits all UK producers.
In addition to the new productivity and regenerative viticulture workshops, Vinescapes will also run pruning workshops in December and January for those with both beginner and intermediate pruning skills.
Learn to make the most effective choices for when and how to manage the gentle pruning of grapevines ready for budburst and the growing season ahead.
Enjoy a morning of theory-based learning before you apply what you have learned with a hands-on practical session in the vineyard.
Workshops available in Essex and Hampshire
Discount bundles are available and WineGB members can also access a special discounted ticket per workshop as outlined below:
WINEGB & STUDENTS: 5% Off
2 TICKET BUNDLE: 10% Off
3 TICKET BUNDLE: 15% Off
Vinescapes clients also receive a discount.
Please get in touch to find out more.
Each workshop includes lunch and morning tea.
Take your base skills and elevate your understanding of how strategic considerations can improve the performance of your vines.
Over this full day of theory and practical instruction you will discover how to develop the vine architecture for improved fruit quality.