Wine creation system
The intended wine is defined first. Available fruit, vineyard work, harvest, cellar decisions and release are then connected through vintage-specific quality parameters and recorded protocols.
Wine constructor and grape selector
Select the wine category, colour, aromatic families, freshness, body, texture, effervescence, ageing route, intervention limits, volume and optional certification. The constructor converts these choices into sensory and analytical targets.
The grape selector searches the live co-creation inventory. It evaluates each available variety and parcel against the target, its intended role in the blend, current vintage measurements, available volume and certification compatibility. The result is a multi-parcel blend proposal with alternatives.
You specify
Vin-Q returns
The first proposal uses current inventory data. After registration, parcel sampling and grape analyses update the component proportions, harvest windows and production route throughout the vintage.
A defined sensory profile with measurable windows for freshness, structure, stability, maturation and release.
Available varieties and participating parcels ranked by component role, vintage suitability, volume and certification compatibility.
Harvest, fermentation, blending, maturation and release choices updated from the current measurements.
The finished wine linked to its fruit composition, operations, measurements, analyses and responsible participants.
Vineyard module · before reception
Each proposed parcel is divided into fruit zones. The grower and winemaker use current water state, soil diagnosis, bunch microclimate, skin condition and maturity to decide the action, harvest segment and reception criteria for each component.
Does the current water and soil state preserve the target berry composition?
Measure: Soil moisture by depth · Matric potential where available · Rainfall and evapotranspiration · Vine water-stress observation or measurement · Compaction and infiltration
A dated water-state decision with parcel-zone boundaries and the next measurement condition.
Which diagnosed soil function requires intervention in this parcel?
Measure: Compaction and infiltration · Soil moisture and organic-matter context · Nutrient or salinity indicators where relevant · Cover-crop state and competition · Observed response to previous interventions
A purpose-specific intervention record linking diagnosis, material, dose, date and measured response.
Is each fruit zone progressing toward its intended wine component?
Measure: Bunch exposure and canopy porosity · Canopy humidity and disease pressure · Berry and bunch-zone temperature · pH and titratable-acidity trajectory · Phenolic or aromatic maturity
A zone-specific canopy action and maturity trajectory tied to a wine-component role.
Can the fruit carry the intended microbial route safely into reception?
Measure: Skin integrity and visible rot · Disease and damage history · Yeast or bacteria indicators where available · Fruit temperature and time to reception · Planned sulphur and oxygen handling before crush
A pre-crush microbial baseline and handling instruction that continues into G4 and G5.
Which fruit states should remain separate through collection and reception?
Measure: Parcel zone and exposure · Ripeness and acidity trajectory · Sanitary and berry condition · Phenolic or aromatic state · Intended component and extraction route
Identified harvest segments with collection order, component role and reception criteria.
The seal on the bottle
Every Vin-Q bottle carries a VQ monogram inside a ring of seven segments — one for each protocol in the Method. The segments drawn in gold, with their two-letter code beside them, are the protocols that bottle’s record actually supports. The faint segments are the ones it does not. The ring is the same on every bottle so the family is recognisable; the constellation of gold is different on each, because it describes that lot and no other.
A segment is earned, not claimed. It is filled only when the gates that protocol governs are complete, the measurements are recorded, and a technical reviewer has signed the release. The example above reads PV, RV, AN and MR: precision viticulture, regenerative vineyard, ancestral route and measured release.
MADE ACCORDING TO THE VIN-Q METHOD
This is a method mark, not a certification mark. An appellation, an organic certificate or any other external scheme keeps its own legal field on the label, separate from the seal.
The seven protocols are set out below.
Protocol library
Grouped by where each one acts in the vintage, in the order the wine passes through them.
How the fruit is grown and when it is picked.
How the must becomes wine, and how effervescence is made.
Limits that hold from reception through to release.
How the wine is aged and what has to be true to release it.
Parcel and vintage
Soil-water state, weather, disease models, fruit microclimate and maturity measurements are converted into dated parcel-zone and harvest decisions for the intended wine.
Bottle statement · VQM 1.0
Vin-Q Precision Viticulture Protocol
Parcel-zone decisions guided by recorded water, weather, disease-risk and maturity data.
What you receive
Start with the style, aromas, structure and ageing you want. Vin-Q returns quality targets, a proposed combination of available grapes and the decisions needed for the current vintage.
Aromatic families · freshness · phenolic structure · texture · persistence · colour · effervescence
You set the style and sensory result you want in the bottle, including its development during ageing.
Sugar or density · total acidity · pH · alcohol · volatile acidity · phenolics · dissolved oxygen · microbial state
Vin-Q provides measurable target windows for harvest, fermentation, blending, stability and release.
Variety · parcel zone · soil-water state · bunch microclimate · skin condition · maturity curve · harvest segment
You receive a proposed blend and a measured vineyard route for the fruit currently offered by participating vineyards.
Lot separation · press fraction · yeast route · temperature · extraction · oxygen · lees · blending · ageing
You receive the vineyard and cellar decisions required to move the actual vintage toward the selected profile.
Decision sequence
At each gate, Vin-Q shows the current measurements, the target range and the available actions. The farmer or winemaker records the decision taken, and every gate ends in one state: pass, conditional pass, hold, redirect or stop. An irreversible action never proceeds on a missing critical value.
Accept the brief as physically and legally constructible, or revise incompatible requirements.
Produce ranked single-parcel and multi-parcel candidates from registered parcels.
Set soil-water, rhizosphere and fruit-microclimate actions from the measured parcel state and intended wine.
Define harvest segments by parcel zone, exposure, maturity, sanitary state, skin microbiology and intended route.
Accept, sort, split press fractions, reduce the proportion, redirect or stop.
Commit the component to its microbial, extraction and endpoint route.
Continue, change temperature, adjust oxygen handling, separate a fraction, revise the plan, redirect or stop.
Finish still, bottle an active primary fermentation, assemble base wines, perform tirage, retain separately, redirect or hold.
Continue maturation, disgorge, filter, blend, correct under an allowed protocol, redirect, hold or release.
Method authorisation
A lot carries the statement MADE ACCORDING TO THE VIN-Q METHOD once its applicable gates, measurements and records are complete and a technical reviewer independent of the reviewed operation signs the release decision. The protocol line lists the modules the record supports.
A method authorisation. A lot may carry the Vin-Q Method statement only after its applicable gates, measurements and records are complete and a technical reviewer signs the release decision.
A requested certification enters the constructor as an eligibility constraint before a blend is proposed, and carries its own legal field on the label.
Authorisation is granted for one identified bottle lot at a time, against the Method and constructor versions used for its decisions. The Vintage Record holds that evidence and stays version-locked after release, so the statement on the bottle always resolves to the record behind it.
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