Who Is Building This
Our running list of the companies and institutions that matter in wine technology, grouped by where they sit on the journey. Not a ranking. We update it as the field moves.
Vineyard: sensing, imaging, robotics
Satellite and sensor AI for maturity, yield and irrigation.
Sap-flow sensors and irrigation decision support.
Aerial imaging and vigour analytics.
Autonomous electric weeding robots, in commercial use.
Bakus vine-straddling robot.
Drone-mapping and agronomy software, an industry standard.
Harvesters, autonomy and optical sorting.
Precision-agriculture platforms crossing into viticulture.
Cellar: sorting, fermentation, dealcoholisation
Optical sorters and cellar equipment.
Spinning cone dealcoholisation and aroma recovery.
Dealcoholisation as a service.
Density and fermentation analytics.
Winery automation and fermentation control.
Wine lab analytics.
Chemistry-and-palate AI for blending and recommendation.
Beyond the barrel: provenance, packaging, consumer
Blockchain and NFC provenance, deployed with Penfolds.
Fine-wine provenance and authentication.
Blockchain plus cold-chain scoring.
Paper bottle and assembly machines.
Winery direct-to-consumer and CRM.
The largest consumer wine app and palate data.
Research and standards: the backbone
The Australian Wine Research Institute.
Viticulture and oenology research.
Gene editing, resistant breeding and forecasting.
Sorting studies and grapevine science.
A working list, not exhaustive. Inclusion is editorial, not endorsement.