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Smoke Gets in Your Wine － Verse 3
From Hyperspectral Insight to Handheld Impact: Year Three of Smoke Taint Detection Completed Bushfire smoke remains one of the most unpredictable and costly risks facing wine producers. While laboratory analysis can detect smoke taint compounds with precision, it is slow, expensive, and impractical for rapid decision-making in the vineyard. Over the past three seasons, Compolytics…
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Application Note: Smoke Taint Detection in Grapes
We are excited to announce the release of our first ScanCorder Application Note, kicking off a new series from Compolytics. This note demonstrates how spectral vegetation indices (VIs) measured with the ScanCorder GP-VNIR can detect smoke contamination in grapes — an increasingly relevant issue for vineyards facing bushfire risks.Using reflectance data from Shiraz grape bunches,…
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Smoke Gets in Your Wine － Verse 2
Bushfire smoke in vineyards can spell disaster for winemakers, as smoky, ashy characters in grapes can render wine unsaleable, leading to significant revenue losses. At Compolytics, in collaboration with The University of Adelaide and key industry partners from the Australian and US wine industries, we’re taking our mission to safeguard grape and wine quality to the next…
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Smoke Gets in Your Wine
Vineyard exposure to bushfire smoke can taint grapes, causing significant revenue losses where smoky, ashy characters render wine unsaleable. In order to safeguard grape and wine quality and to predict the severity of smoke taint in grapes in real-time, Compolytics, as part of a joint project with The University of Adelaide, The Australian Wine Research…
