When looking at the wine industry, one might get lost in the web of interactions between vineyards, people, tanks, and other necessary operations to maintain a successfully functioning winery. Other than highly skilled operators and staff, winery software has traditionally been the saving grace that keeps these interactions organized and in-check. While some software handles these needs extremely effectively, others clearly fall flat.

Process2Wine is a versatile, cloud-based, software solution with various modules that can be applied for vineyard management, cellar management, logistics, human resources, GPS tracking of tractors, reporting, and is also “compliance ready” as the data is automatically populated to the TTB 5120.17 report (cellar) and the Pesticide Use Report (vineyard). It is highly adaptable to fit any client’s specific needs and flexible enough to be accessed from anywhere via an internet connection, providing ultimate traceability to efficiently track every movement from vine to bottle.

Process2wine is the well-established software arm of Ertus Group, founded by Alain Sutre. As a famous consulting winemaker in Bordeaux, and President of the company, Alain has been instrumental in the software’s development, working with a team of dedicated developers to build the software directly from the vision of someone that knows the intricacies of the winemaking process. This allows the software to solve real problems that winemakers and vineyard managers face, while also providing the complete traceability results that they’re looking for.

Process2Wine already has many prominent and successful clients in European markets including Laurent Perrier in Champagne, as well as Leoville Poyferre and Gruaud Larose in Bordeaux. The software is now ready-to-go and coming to the US market to provide American wineries with the tools they need to succeed in managing their wineries and vineyards effectively and efficiently.

“This software is flexible, accessible, and so easy to use that winemakers and vineyard managers just have to see it to believe the amazing things it can do,” says Patrick Oates at Wine Management Systems. “It’s incredible that you can do 80% of what the software has to offer from your cell phone, in the middle of a vineyard, as long as you have cellular service. It’s truly unbelievable what this software can do to take wineries to the next level.”

The vineyard module is what really stands out in the Process2Wine software, as most competitors don’t have a fully functioning module that focuses on vineyard management. Not only can you track blocks, spraying times, and inventory but you can also manage administrative tasks like assigning work orders, tracking seasonal workers and tractor movements. The software even has a powerful GIS mapping system to fully utilize vineyard mapping capabilities. This automated data entry, coupled with GPS tracking of vineyard mechanical work, tracks which vineyard blocks have been sprayed, the time of application and the duration. It also auto-populates the Pesticide Use Report, without having to do any manual data entry.

Cellar capabilities are also improved, with an impressive graphical tank map and a real-time cellar inventory system. Every action is recorded and followed up by real-time updates for data; additions, lab analysis, temperatures, and blend percentages. It also provides complete management of wine batches and traceability to each part of each blend, all the way back to the vine.

The Process2Wine software can be accessed via smartphone, tablet, or any other computer with internet access – it’s a cloud-based system so there are no servers or hardware installations required. The Process2Wine team will even help you transfer data from your existing software and then train you on their platform. If you have a specific process that isn’t already on their platform, the Process2Wine team will add a module that can adapt to any process or operation that you can throw at it. The flexibility and adaptability of the platform is always changing to meet the needs of the clients.

“I think the biggest selling point is simply how much software and management you get for the price,” says Patrick. “You can teach everyone, from the vineyard guys to the CEO, how to use it in no time!”

With a handful of wineries and vineyards already signed on in the US, the company has had nothing but positive feedback from its American clients. Contact their team today to demo the software and see how Process2Wine can take you winery and vineyard management to the next level.

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A look back at our presence at the Cuma day on Thursday July 3, at Château Bonnet, organized by the network of local CUMA Federations of Gironde & Lot-et-Garonne , by the CUMA Federation of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and by the Gironde Chamber of Agriculture . 

Around ten companies were present for demonstrations and practical exercises of their innovations.

What Our Customers Have to Say...

A growing winery management software company with a unique and highly functional vineyard and cellar module, Process2Wine® is always on the lookout for savvy wineries that are taking technology to the next level. Named after its founder, esteemed Finger Lakes Winery, Dr. Konstantin Frank, is embracing the technology wave and with fourth-generation family member Meaghan Frank as General Manager, they may go even further.

Meaghan’s great grandfather, Dr. Konstantin Frank, began the “Vinifera Revolution” on the East Coast changing the way wine grapes were grown in many areas there. Meaghan wants to keep up the revolution, this time implementing the technological advantages of Process2Wine. “Meaghan has stood out to me. We sought them [Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery] out three or four years ago, as they are one of the best-known wineries in the Finger Lakes,” notes Process2Wine’s Chief Operations Officer, Patrick Oates. “When Meaghan transitioned in, she started contacting us right away to learn more and more about the winery management software.”

Frank explains that although she only moved to Process2Wine within the last year, she is finding it ultra-helpful, “It’s very exciting to see the capabilities of Process2Wine and even more exciting to have access to the components on our cell phones.”

She and the winemaking staff have received the full training set and were impressed by being able to use the cell phone app to input all of the lab analysis; inputting brix and weight levels while at the tank, seeing which tank a particular lot is in and how much juice it’s producing, even down to the detail of noting the condition of the fruit. “It’s all entered right there. We make 36 different wines, so having it all in one place is really nice,” Frank particularly likes that, “This system is very user-friendly and it syncs instantaneously. The interface seems easy to use.”

She says they have two assistant winemakers, one from France and one from South Africa, who are accustomed to tracking different facets of winemaking this way and are happy to see more technology being used. As for Frank, she speaks highly of the app, “Graphically, the interface is very attractive. When we’re bottling, it shows pie charts with our blend components. It’s a good added visual feature that I hadn’t seen before.”

Other features she mentions are used for better understanding their vineyards and the time savings for 702 reports, “So for me, the winemaker knows what’s going on, but we need to have records of everything we do so we can understand our blocks better, and for improve our reporting. A key feature of Process2Wine is that we’re able to generate a 702 report, saving us at least an hour each month.” This represents a major time savings for most wineries.

Frank notes that they’ve had two previous systems, “Dad (Frederick Frank) pushed to have a system in place before I came on board, but we had an early model. Dad understands the value, and so he didn’t need a lot of convincing.” A huge stand-out to her is the education and support that comes with a Process2Wine system. After a large investment, a previous system let them down, giving little to no support, so good follow-up was important this time around. Frank is enthusiastic on this topic, “Their support has been very good. We don’t have a long track record with them, but the trainings have been great. We’ve received specific trainings at every stage, matched to wherever we were in our learning process. Sometimes it’s really difficult to find good support once you make a big purchase. Clement is our support trainer and he’s been very helpful.”

A grandson of Dr. Konstantin Frank is the vineyard manager, “We have 130 acres planted across two sites; the main site where our oldest block is, where my great-grandfather started planting, and our other site, started in 2005, which has a slightly warmer climate. It’s 50 minutes away, so it has its own vineyard manager.” Meaghan hopes that one day they will incorporate the vineyard management component of Process2Wine into their routine as well.

Oates is impressed with this technologically savvy winery, and its cutting-edge General Manager, “Meaghan is definitely one of the up and coming people to watch in that entire area.”

With remarkably affordable pricing, this technology provides vast potential to the new wave of technology-driven vineyard decision making. Contact their team today to demo the software and see how Process2Wine can take you winery and vineyard management to the next level.

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What if you could open an app on your smartphone, drop a location pin where you see deer damage or broken irrigation in your vineyard, and send in a work order for it to be fixed first thing tomorrow morning? How about drawing a perimeter around a specific area of your vineyard that needs spraying or mowing, and your foreman sends out a crew, based on the precise specifications (mow height, chemical mix, location target) entered?

Process2Wine® has made this a reality with the creation of a complete web and mobile app platform, exclusively designed for detailed vineyard and cellar management.

Watch Your Tractor Spray or Mow in Real Time or Look at Previous Days

Offering a portable system that interfaces with real-time GPS data right from your smartphone, Process2Wine is a complete vineyard management system, ensuring the full traceability of your production. It offers relevant business management tools that are essential for your team, such as allocation of employees’ time, total cost by vineyard or varietal, and productivity per acre.

Offering up a revolutionary new vineyard management platform, you can log on to Process2Wine from your desktop for full usage, or use with 80% unabbreviated functionality through the advanced smartphone app.

Do you have multiple vineyards or even multiple estates? They’ve got it covered, tracking not only all parcels, but using our GPS boxes allows you to geo-locate your tractors in real time. Watch the rows the tractor is spraying, or track the time it takes your crews to get from one location to the next. Some of the other options it can provide include:

• Comparisons over time, with examples including:
  • How many hours were spent pruning this year compared to last
  • How many times was one block sprayed this year compared to last
  • How much product was used block to block, or by area over time
  • Damage type (customizable: you create your list) by year
• Assignment by worker to duties
• Oversight of all work orders from one location
• Multiple estate integration
• Multiple vineyard managers can access

Plan Your Work Orders Ahead or Look at Their History on the Calendar

Says Patrick Oates, COO, “Your teams can head down the road to the next block. Your manager will know how long it took them to get there, see the spraying or whatever in real time, with a color-coded satellite map, with all the notes you’ve written. You can look at each block by layers, for example by varietal, or by yield. The ease and functionality for vineyard management is incomparable.”

Your managers can see what work is being accomplished on any given day, and by whom. This vineyard management data is also integrated with cellar data, and the two components can work together to provide a seamless transition from vineyard to cellar, extending your options.

With remarkably affordable pricing, this technology provides vast potential to the new wave of technology-driven vineyard decision making. Contact their team today to demo the software and see how Process2Wine can take you winery and vineyard management to the next level.

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Process2Wine acquires Wine Management Systems, Enabling Wineries to Leverage and Afford a Best-in-Class Vineyard Management and Wine Production Management Solution

According to Oates, “For a modest monthly fee, Process2Wine is providing business Wine Production management capabilities that have historically been out of reach from a pricing perspective for wineries. Clearly, this change is revolutionizing business for many wineries that would not otherwise have access to such things as GPS Tracking of Vineyard information as well as managing barcoding. Their Smartphone data entry capabilities are truly game-changing. That is why of all the Wine Production solutions in the winery space we chose Process2Wine”.

Now the two companies have already big plans for the future. Process2Wine intends to become the heart of a digital ecosystem that will include predictive decision-making tools with the goal of facilitating viticulture in response to the environment and delivering efficiencies throughout the winemaking process.

About Process2Wine

Process2wine is the well-established software arm of Ertus Group, founded by Alain Sutre in France. As a famous consulting winemaker in Bordeaux, and President of the company, Alain Sutre has been instrumental in the software’s development, working with a team of dedicated developers to build the software directly from the vision of someone that knows the intricacies of the winemaking process. This allows the software to solve real problems that winemakers and vineyard managers face, while also providing the complete traceability results that they’re looking for. Process2Wine is the only solution that integrates full traceability from the vineyard to the cellar and encompasses major innovations such as the automatic GPS tracking of viticulture operations. The simplicity and power of this software solution is appreciated by more than 250 properties in Europe and North America.

For more information about Process 2 Wine please call 800-280-2708 or contact: contact-na@process2wine.com www.process2wine.ca

About Wine Management Systems

WMS was founded in 2007 to address the glaring needs of the small to midsize wine producer. At the time there were no affordable software applications available that could assist in tracking every critical activity that occurs in the winery business cycle. Patrick Oates, a former IT executive, recognized the opportunity to leverage the latest technology and software trends to offer smaller wineries the same set of solutions that were only affordable to large wine companies at that time. By partnering with leading software companies in addition to working closely with wine industry leaders in production, and DTC delivery WMS was created and a new benchmark was set for management technology in the wine industry.

For more information, contact: info@winemanagementsystems.com www.winemanagementsystems.com

Wineries have to track lots of complex data throughout the wine production process, from vine to bottle. At a time when more and more companies are investing in ERP projects, many wineries still use paper notebooks or Excel to track their data. This often results in complex worksheets that can become corrupted with time or lost if there is no backup, and are often difficult to decipher when one winemaker leaves and a new one takes the reins. Wineries may keep using traditional methods to track their data instead of using production software because they wish to save some dollars with a free system. But the lack of efficiency of these old-school methods might cost even more than the real cost of production software.

If you are still not convinced, here are 7 reasons why you should throw away your Excel sheets and pieces of paper and adopt vineyard and winery production management software to better manage your estate:

1. Get a comprehensive traceability of your wines on a unique platform

Vineyard and winery software enables you to record on a unique and central tool every step of your wine production, from establishing the vineyard, through harvest, to the bottled and packaged finished product. You don’t have to navigate through different papers or spreadsheets to find the right information or to check the full traceability of a batch or of a bottle; all stages are connected and communicate on the software platform. Thanks to this comprehensive traceability you are always ready for unexpected audits or for product recalls.

2. Optimize the performance of your business with management tools

Winery production software is not only a traceability tool, it is also a management tool. It helps you to establish the right processes for your winery by efficiently planning and managing all operations performed on the estate. Thanks to comprehensive work orders you can organize the work of your employees, and you can even track the time spent on each task and calculate production costs. But planning and recording are not enough. If you are always seeking greater efficiency within your organization, you also need to analyze the work you have performed. Winery software like Process2Wine provides you with reports on your production and on the work of your employees. You can therefore analyze your operations and their results and take the right decision for your future vintages.

3. Improve your margin by tracking your production costs

If you want to improve your margins you need to be aware of your production costs at each step of your wine production. Winery Production software makes it easier to calculate your production costs since every step of production from vine to bottle is already recorded. At the end, you are able to analyze the production costs of a bottle or a wine batch so you can check where margins can be improved.

4. Improve efficient communication across your organization

With cloud based software every production department in your estate works and collaborates on the same platform. Information is updated in real time for everyone, which improves the communication process within your company. Winemakers, for instance, can have a look at the analyses on the grapes before harvesting. Lab staff always have access to wine batch data during fermentations. Human Resources can check hours spent by employees… Your colleagues don’t waste hours finding the information they need.

5. Save precious time on administrative chores

The administrative workload of a winemaker or a vineyard manager is really high. Filling regulatory reports like the TTB tax report in the USA or tracking the time spent by their crews each day are some of the numerous time-consuming administrative chores that winery managers have to deal with. Wine production software helps them to be more efficient on this kind of tasks with an array of ready to use reports (including prefilled TTB tax report) generated at the click of a button. Process2Wine software goes even further regarding timesaving with automatic data tracking in the vineyard thanks to GPS tracking of the tractors. The blocks that have already been sprayed and the time spent by tractor drivers are automatically updated in real-time on the software. By saving precious time on administrative chores, your employees can spend more time on doing what they love and what they are good at: making great wines.

6. Always be connected to your production

Software like Process2Wine is connected with a mobile application. Your production is therefore always at your fingertips. You can check and record any data even if you are far from your computer. When walking in your vineyard, you can instantly check the work order history of a specific block. When working in your cellar, you can instantly record the blends or the additions you are doing.

7. Secure your data

One of the main advantages of cloud-based software is the back-up of your data on your server. If you currently track your operations in a notebook, you always have the risk of loosing the book. If you use an Excel spreadsheet you are not immune to a computer breakdown, which can be very serious if you haven’t any back-up… With a SaaS software, you will always be able to access to your platform through the internet from any computer, and your data will have multiple back-ups.

Conclusion:

Implementing production management software in your winery is a big decision that will change the working habits of your employees. However this is a decision that you won’t regret in the long run. It will quickly become your best friend to produce great wines and to manage your business. Say goodbye to the old paper notebook or complicated Excel sheet and enter into the world of connected viticulture and winemaking.

When choosing your winery software you will have to take into account lots of criteria: is it cloud-based software? With a mobile application? Does the system offer full traceability from vine to bottle? Is there a support team that will help you with the first steps and with everyday support?

Process2Wine is vineyard and winery software already used worldwide by 180 estates. The software is connected to a mobile application for day-to-day traceability. Clients benefits from 2 support teams, one in Europe (France) and one in North America, who accompany clients from the set-up of the application, to the training of the users and for the everyday support they may need. More information can be found at: www.process2wine.ca or www.process2wine.com

The ability to make decisions based on real data, using the latest technology, is important to the modern wine operation. This is why Allan Delmare of renowned Rappahannock Cellars in Virginia selected Process2Wine as their management system. “We have been using different winery management systems for the last two decades. Finding the right software has been a journey of trial-and-error, but then we found Wine Management Systems, now Process2Wine, for our production management in May 2015.” One of the family owners of Rappahannock Cellars (and chief distiller), Delmare has been moving his family’s business towards technology-based and data-driven decisions for winery production, and now for their vineyards as well.

Presenting not only a complete production system for winemaking and wine storage, Process2Wine offers a unique component that their competitors do not: complete (and mobile!) vineyard management. Exclusively designed for technology-driven vineyard management, decisions are made easier through real-time and actionable information.

“We needed to get our production management up to snuff. They [Process2Wine] approached us about the vineyard modules, and I was excited. They did an online, shared screen demo, then came and did an actual onsite visit,” says Delmare about choosing the Process2Wine system. Rappahannock Cellars purchased the vineyard modules right away and have been implementing them over the past year. Costing the same as his previous software, but providing a whole new scope of pertinent data, Delmare says adding the vineyard modules was a “no brainer”. “We have new capabilities and look forward to putting the rest of the modules into motion.”

Using their vineyard management app, you can open your smartphone, plan and manage visits to record phenology and viticulture metrics saving you a lot of time on data entry with our Cloud technology. While visiting your vineyard, you can drop a location pin where you see a missing vine or a broken post, and share and send in a work order for it to be replaced or repaired. Have a specific need for each block? Draw a perimeter around a specific area of vineyard that needs spraying or mowing, and your foreman can send out a crew to target that area, based on the precise specifications (mow height, chemical mix, location target) that were entered. Going back to the office you will be able to run a report to follow and predict maturity, crop, and yield estimation.

Rappahannock Cellars is inputting their vineyard data for increased productivity, and also using it to interface with and improve their wine production side. They use the satellite overheads of each vineyard, and by electronically tracking a particular block, on a certain harvest date, they create traceability on the winemaking side as well. Whether for block designations, blending purposes, or tracking appellation origin for compliance, Delmare feels that just having that unique capability improved the understanding on the wine production side.

Producing 15,000 cases per year, and with thirty acres under vine, their family vineyard is managed using Process2Wine. As a bonus, they now have a new vineyard manager who is very enthusiastic about this product. He is dedicated to using the modules he’d learned about in a demo of the Process2Wine vineyard components at another vineyard. He couldn’t be happier about the implementation.

“THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT TOOL IN DATA ANALYTICS. WE CAN TRACK WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS SHOULD BE AND CAN BE OVER TIME”

Rappahannock Cellars also is planning on implementing this vineyard management on another 30 acres, which they remotely manage within a co-op structure. “It’s a 20-year contract, and we get our same vineyard allotment each year. We need to be able to track and identify what are we going to get out of this particular block every year,” notes Delmare. “This is a significant tool in data analytics. We can track what our expectations should be and can be over time, especially for a 20-year deal!”

On the winery production side, Rappahannock Cellars has been using all of the Process2Wine modules for the past five years. Says Delmare, “They are doing a good job to develop new things and are very responsive.” COO of Process2Wine, Patrick Oates, says that they are looking to help Delmare with his distillery by tweaking some of their operations management components currently used in the winery.

Rappahannock Cellars also runs Dida’s Distillery, and has been able, through GoFundMe donations, to produce hand sanitizer to donate to local organizations in need. “It was my dad’s idea,” says Delmare. “Hospitals were calling us asking for help.” They started making a small batch for donation, and then received $30K in donations. They have been able to donate hand sanitizer to over 100+ locations, including EMS/First Responders, Healthcare, and Public and Community Services.

Process2Wine is pleased to be partnering with trend-setters Rappahannock Cellars, and other forward-thinking wineries across the United States. With affordable pricing, this technology provides cutting-edge possibilities for the new wave of technology-driven vineyard decision making. Visit their website or email contact-na@process2wine.com for a demonstration.

Wineries and viticulturists have integrated software into their day-to-day operations to save time and streamline workflow. Choosing the best solution from among the many options can be challenging, if not daunting. Key considerations include the size of your winery or vineyard, whether you want a winemaking, viticultural or vineyard-to-bottle solution, the level of customer support you need, and of course, your budget. 

Googling all options can add to the confusion and often misses the best solution for you. Relying on word of mouth alone can mean finding a solution that’s perfect for your friend’s business but not for yours. As a result, making a decision can become overwhelming for many. Yet, with software’s rapid pace of innovation, it is more important than ever to take advantage of its expanding benefits. 

“There is a digital shift in how both wineries and viticulturists utilize software,” says Clement Chivite, General Manager of Process2Wine North America. “Mobile capabilities allow winemakers and vineyard managers to use a system to track and recall operations in the vineyard and the cellar. This move toward technology as a convenience lets those adopting it lean more into precision viticulture and precision winemaking.

Such precision is at the heart of Process2Wine’s software. Founder and CEO Alain Sutre started from the premise that ‘better grapes make better wine’ when he developed the precision viticulture module and expanded it with the precision winemaking module. His strategy was to make robust functionality available to vineyard management companies and wineries at a lower cost than other wine production and vineyard management software makers.

If you are feeling uncertain about which software is best for you, Process2Wine has an eminently practical way to find out. It offers freemium versions of its two different and distinct modules — the Vineyard Management module (available now) and Winery Management module (available this Spring) — to let winemakers and viticulturists test-run the solutions.

The freemium version of the Vineyard Management module provides Process2Wine’s industry-best advanced mapping tool, where you can capture the entire history of each block and access the data in real-time from anywhere on your mobile smartphone or tablet. The powerful freemium version lets you manage all your vineyard tasks and daily work orders and add geo-located notes on weather conditions, trellis repair, irrigation and all vineyard activities. 

Once you’ve experienced the ease of use and value-added with Process2Wine’s software, it’s easy to step up from the freemium version to the standard version. Here you can track the cost of vineyard supplies, labor, overhead and operating expenses associated with every task. You can also access customized reporting like generating maturity control or pesticide use reports, constructing yield summaries or crop estimates based on cluster counts or weights, and creating pruning or harvest protocols by block or row.

Process2Wine’s upcoming freemium version of its Winery Management module includes its innovative interactive mapping system that lets you visually review a simple map of your tanks and barrels in the same order and rows as in your cellar. A color-coded capacity gauge shows how full each container is and the type of wine it holds. Simply click on a tank to drill down to more details, including fermentation status, the history of chemicals used, sanitation or cleaning maintenance, transfers, additions, blending, racking, filter and fining, aging, and so much more. The real-time, customizable BI reporting tool, TTB report generation and Cost Tracking will be accessible when you move from the freemium version to the standard winery management version.

“Whether you are a grower with low production or a vineyard management company,” says Erik Johansen, Business Developer at Process2Wine, “you can focus on precision viticulture with our Vineyard Management module that lets you send work orders directly from the vineyard. Wineries of all sizes can use the Winery Management module to manage their inventory, costing and TTB reporting, or use both modules to fit their needs. Process2Wine will include the vineyard module for free for users of the Winery Management module with up to 20 acres of vineyard.”

Process2Wine is dedicating 2022 to developing the partnerships and integrations that will bring everything and everyone under one umbrella, including offering new modules and add-ons to fit each customer’s needs.

One of these new modules, also available this Spring, is the Work Flow Management module, which brings greater efficiency to the winemaker by helping them get organized, save time and avoid record-keeping mistakes. 

“It’s like the whiteboard reimagined,” says Chivite. “Especially during crush, when you have more interns, this tool will give you better organization and the ability to direct more people by assigning tasks in advance and checking the workflow on your mobile to ensure they’ve completed each task.”

When cellar hands walk into the winery in the morning, they can see a list of their assigned responsibilities and work down the list systematically, checking them off as they go. Not directing each worker's tasks one-by-one frees up the winemaker’s valuable time and gets the work done more efficiently. 

To get an inside look at the intuitive traceability software in the Vineyard Management module, go to process2wine.com to connect to the freemium version. Clement and Erik also look forward to showcasing the Process2Wine Vineyard Management software module, the Winery Management software module and the Winery Work Flow Management software module on a demo or in person at the Unified Symposium, Booth #1116. Cheers!

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Process2Wine's interactive mapping and reporting system is easy to use, and underneath that ease of use is the power of a complete system that spans every part of a winery’s business, from vineyard management to wine production. Its web and mobile apps are intuitive and efficient, letting you track your work and access technical data from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

1. Intuitive harvest planning with Process2Wine mapping 

Veraison check using 
Process2Wine’s on the-go
mobile version.

 

The human brain can process entire images in the blink of an eye, much more quickly than reading text or numbers. That’s part of what makes Process2Wine more effective than any other grape-growing or winemaking software. Developed by wine industry experts with decades of practical experience, the interactive mapping system provides winemakers with a clear picture of essential information from the vineyard. 

A quick scan of the real-time vineyard maps gives you a birds-eye view of where each block's harvest stands and provides crop harvest estimates. During crush, those two clicks on your mobile device each morning lets you know which blocks are coming into the winery later in the day and which are next in line for tomorrow. This ensures there are no last-minute scrambles to find tank capacity. 

2. Cost reporting at a glance
Process2Wine’s color-blocked reports make it easy to see cost drivers and compare vintages at a glance. 

Process2Wine is the only software with an interactive costing module that includes every step in your winery year. This comprehensive capability puts you in total control of your entire grape-to-bottle process in a single software package. 

The easy-to-use color-blocked chart lets you quickly identify high-cost areas. A single click on a color block takes you to a breakdown of purchasing, equipment, labor and other costs so you can determine whether supplies, overhead, crop under-estimates, spraying, pruning, or some other factor is driving your overhead costs. Another click lets you compare the costs across multiple vintages. This intuitive yet powerful tool lets you manage all your operations with ease.

And since you’re already thinking about the next vintage during harvest and post-harvest reporting, using the Process2Wine system means metrics are already in place for planning your next vintage. You might be at a vineyard for harvest talking with your grape grower and decide to review the past three years together. You can easily open your mobile app and review the metrics for grape production and the wines produced, letting you make decisions on the go.

3. Metrics & maps guide decisions and planning

The busy fermentation period can always use a time-saver, and Process2Wine’s reporting system makes a winemaker’s work more efficient by helping manage and increase the quality of each vintage. The software’s real-time graphic tracks the progress of Brix curves through fermentation, ensuring you can make timely adjustments or restart a stalled fermentation without downtime. 

Process2Wine takes this to the next level with the ability to make comparisons across vintages, varietals and tanks in one simple chart.

Process2Wine’s fermentation module lets you compare progress in tanks and quickly check Brix and temperature trends.

With all the information about fermentation, vineyard management, yield, and production gathered year after year, you can also use

Process2Wine’s fermentation module lets you compare progress in tanks and quickly check Brix and temperature trends.

Process2Wine software to compare past years to plan beyond the current vintage. For example, side-by-side maps can compare expected and actual volumes, weights and yields per acre for different vintages. Click on a vineyard block to drill down to the type of soil, spacing, nutrients, irrigation and pesticides 

used that year. These interactive mapping tools flow with your thought processes as you evaluate alternatives and choose the optimal plan for the coming year.

Plan for future vintages by reviewing and comparing past vintages side-by-side with Process2Wine’s interactive maps. 

Process2Wine has gathered a North American team with viticultural degrees and experience in both the vineyard and the cellar. Their California office allows the team to focus on the unique issues facing growers and estate producers of all sizes throughout the US and Canada. General manager Clement Chivite has made wine worldwide and brings his expert knowledge to bear on winemakers’ challenges. Business developer Erik Johansen grew up in wine country, and after 20 years of selling wine, understands the industry and the needs of prospects & customers. They and their local support team bring a personal connection to relationships, training and support. 

Process2Wine’s strength is working with family-owned and operated estate wineries that demand high quality from their grapes and wines — and expect the same from their software provider. The Process2Wine team understands that each family-owned winery and the teams behind it have a unique way of doing business. So, the software was built to be customizable to the way YOU run your winery while keeping the price affordable. To learn more about Process2Wine’s easy-to-use software and take advantage of its unmatched power as a complete vineyard-to-winery system, contact Erik Johansen at erik.johansen@ertus.com or visit www.process2wine.com.

"Connected objects collect information in the field and relay it to Process2Wine production management software where it can be consulted any time and from anywhere."

The applications for connected objects are numerous and correspond to very real needs in viticulture and winemaking. With them, a new spectrum of possibilities opens up. Connected objects collect information in the field and relay it to Process2Wine production management software where it can be consulted any time and from anywhere.

At present in the vineyard, the most widespread connected objects are weather stations. They can be supplemented by connected thermometers which follow temperature in real time. Placed at vine level, the temperatures are recorded and displayed on the mapping function in Process2Wine® . This can be useful for triggering frost responses at the correct time and in precise locations. Other types of sensors, connected insect traps, can be installed to automatically record the number of captures. These outdoor sensors are powered by batteries and can be supported by solar panels. The sensors are designed to send data over a distance of several kilometres without recharging the battery over a growing season. They are small enough to be installed within the row of vines.

In the cellar, communicating ambient sensors can measure the humidity and temperature in the rooms where wines are aged and stored. CO2 levels can be monitored during vinification, providing an extra layer of safety in the cellars. When conditions are not optimal, the user is warned, and immediate action can be taken. Sensors connected to bungs can measure the analytical parameters of the wine and transmit them regularly. More generally, water-, electricity- and fuel-use can be monitored and studied to maximise their efficient use. With connected meters it is easy to follow the patterns of consumption. There are limitless ways to connect equipment to generate interesting data.

The main advantage of these technologies is the time it saves; it is no longer necessary to travel to take readings. It is no longer necessary to manually enter data it is done automatically. Additionally, a history of the readings is generated and stored, which allows year-over-year comparisons. The user can be notified when collected values no longer conform to expected values, thanks to an intelligent system that will inform them.

Just as the software’s vineyard map allows you to quickly see your entire operation, using Process2Wine® to map out tasks and assign work teams to prune, spray and pick each block in advance helps you visualize the coming year. As the year unfolds, you can review the observations you and your team recorded on your phones while in the vineyard, study the time and materials expended, and evaluate a myriad of other data. If weather or other factors disrupt the schedule, you can easily revise it on the drag-and-drop calendar, even from your phone.

When deploying a connected-object network, the complete chain of data flow is controlled at a very low operating cost since there is no need to subscribe to a telecom system. The implementation of the network can be gradual and grow as needs evolve.

The data collected can also directly feed decision-support tools such as Exapta®, the new Process2Wine® module for scheduling phytosanitary treatments using daily updates that optimise operations schedules. The accuracy of the collected data makes it possible to work precisely on each of a farm’s blocks while maintaining an extremely rigorous follow-up. More generally, the data collected is available for analysis of the major challenges facing viticulture: production objectives, cost reduction, environmental protection, and consequences of climate change.

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As the vineyard moves from winter pruning through bud break to veraison and harvest, a vineyard manager and his team continuously work their way through the canopy, tending vines and grapes to ensure they yield the highest quality wine possible.

As the vineyard moves from winter pruning through bud break to veraison and harvest, a vineyard manager and his team continuously work their way through the canopy, tending vines and grapes to ensure they yield the highest quality wine possible. At each stage in the process, the team takes measurements: logging hours worked, recording the amount of water, fertilizer and pesticides applied, counting the flowers and grape bunches on each vine, measuring Brix levels, and noting the date they captured each metric. Viticulturists must synthesize all this information to assess the health of the vines, progress of the grapes, the efficiency of the work, and make decisions about all parts of the vineyard’s management.

Process2Wine® software simplifies this process with an affordable cloud-based solution that captures more than 400 metrics, much of it automatically. This dynamic, interactive software connects the entire team, from workers to vineyard managers and winery owners, to the metrics that will make the most difference in their productivity.

For owners and managers, Process2Wine® software provides a global view of their vineyards and the workflow throughout the year, providing sophisticated decision-making support. The vineyard management year starts by accessing a GPS satellite image for a birds-eye view of the entire parcel on their desktop. Drilling down to individual blocks reveals the cultural data beneath each, including original planting dates, rootstocks, number of rows and vines producing, potential yields, and all the records of past vintages, including materials costs and payroll summaries.

Process2Wine software includes mobile or desktop GPS satellite imagery of your vineyards, with block-by-block cultural data superimposed. 

Process2Wine software includes mobile or desktop GPS satellite imagery of your vineyards, with block-by-block cultural data superimposed. 

Just as the software’s vineyard map allows you to quickly see your entire operation, using Process2Wine® to map out tasks and assign work teams to prune, spray and pick each block in advance helps you visualize the coming year. As the year unfolds, you can review the observations you and your team recorded on your phones while in the vineyard, study the time and materials expended, and evaluate a myriad of other data. If weather or other factors disrupt the schedule, you can easily revise it on the drag-and-drop calendar, even from your phone.

This work schedule also becomes your template for each subsequent year, allowing you to make improvements, adjust for each year’s unique circumstances, and track differences in the harvest and its associated costs. With it, you can estimate material and labor costs, harvest expectations, and other factors for future years and track your success against those goals.

As the vineyard year moves through spring, pesticide application comes to the fore. In addition to keeping track of pesticide materials, their content, and the disease target, Process2Wine® calculates the quantity needed and automatically populates the Pesticide Use Report (PUR) form, with no manual data entry. The system supports sending e-mails or text messages to notify employees and neighbors of upcoming treatments and posts an alert when re-entry is due. You can visualize the re-entry period on the vineyard block map and check-in remotely as the application progresses, watching tractors move through the rows in real-time.

Process2Wine tracks tractor progress through the vineyard.

Process2Wine® is available to all vineyard team members on their mobile phones or laptops, a vital benefit since they are closest to the details of day-to-day vineyard operations. Not only can they record their work hours and tasks as they complete them, but they can also enter their observations of the vines and grapes as they occur.

“Giving the workforce responsibility for critical data gathering by connecting via their smartphones can increase their sense of responsibility and commitment to their jobs,” says Alain Sutre, President of Ertus Group, the developer of Process2Wine®. “This also gives them essential information right in their pockets when they work alone and when time is precious. Geo-localized terminals give the workers access to only the information that the worker requires.”

During harvest, Process2Wine® automatically captures test results from the labs as they perform them so you can effortlessly monitor malic acid and all the measures used to control the maturity of your vines, including manual entry of crop weight from the field. You can track the progress of each block’s harvest yield and compare the results with past years. Creating new wine lots is simple and allows you to name the lot by destination container and indicate the type of wine, volume, vintage, color, appellation, stage, and more.

Process2Wine software simplifies grape harvest tracking. 

“This software is flexible, accessible, and so easy to use that vineyard managers just have to see it to believe the amazing things it can do,” says Patrick Oates, COO. “You can do 80% of what the software has to offer from your cell phone while standing in the middle of a vineyard, which saves 50% of your time compared to doing it on paper. It’s remarkable how much you get for the price. This software can take wineries to the next level.”

The Ertus Group team built Process2Wine® using their hands-on knowledge and expert grape growing and winemaking expertise to create an affordable and practical data-driven decision-making solution. Their goals are to elevate vineyard management to precision viticulture while creating efficiencies in cost and labor.

A Process2Wine® consultant works with every new client when you deploy the software to refine the functions to your needs and define the reports you’ll use, and remains available to help you achieve those goals in your vineyards.

An international agricultural event at the Parc des Expositions in Angers

The year 2025 got off to a flying start with a trip to Angers to participate for the first time in the SIVAL trade fair, which took place from January 14 to 16.

An international agricultural event where professionals come to meet companies from across the plant sector and discover their innovations.

Managing a large-scale winery requires precision, efficiency, and seamless integration across all aspects of production—from vineyard management to packaging. Process2Wine Enterprise is designed to meet these needs, providing a comprehensive and adaptable software solution that streamlines operations while ensuring full traceability and compliance.

A Scalable, End-to-End Wine Production Solution

The Process2Wine Enterprise solution offers global visibility across your winery operations, allowing you to manage every stage with confidence. Its advanced mapping tool and modular features ensure that you have the tools necessary for your unique operation, whether it’s vineyard tracking, resource management, or production monitoring.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Vineyard & Winery Operations Management
  • Register your CVI (Computerized Wine Registry)
  • Create and manage cadastral parcels using the advanced mapping tool
  • Ensure regulatory traceability and meet environmental certification requirements
  • Monitor containers, batches, and winemaking processes with real-time data
    
    

• Streamlined Inventory & Resource Tracking

  • Manage stocks of wine products and oenological inputs
    
  • Track equipment usage, human resources, and labor hours
  • Enhance efficiency with customized modules tailored to your specific needs
    
    

• Automated Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting

  • Gain deep insights into production traceability with real-time analytics
  • Utilize advanced BI tools to optimize decision-making and compliance reporting
    
    

• Seamless System Integration

  • Process2Wine connects to leading BI tools, ERP systems, and management platforms
  • Full API integration allows synchronization with finance, HR, and IoT sensor data

Why Choose Process2Wine Enterprise?

For wineries looking for a powerful, scalable, and fully integrable solution, Process2Wine Enterprise delivers customization, compliance, and operational control. Whether you're overseeing multiple vineyards, managing large production volumes, or ensuring regulatory adherence, this solution brings together the tools you need to streamline your workflow and maximize efficiency.

Learn more about how Process2Wine Enterprise can transform your winery operations by visiting Process2Wine Enterprise.

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Visit us at booth 231 during the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium from January 24th-25th! 

Explore our cutting-edge vineyard and winery solutions in a live demo. 

Partnering with Agrology, we’re ready to elevate your vineyard experience. 

Don’t miss out on unlocking the full potential for your vineyard and winery!

Discover the New Process2Wine Feature!

Traceability of your wines managed in just a few clicks for worry-free winemaking!

Save more time than ever with this new, easy program!

An Intuitive Interface at Your Fingertips!

Step 1: Print the QR code labels for your containers

Step 2: Scan the QR code with the mobile version of Process2Wine

Step 3: Input your cellar data in a method that’s faster and easier than ever before!

Find the details and histories of your containers and lots with a simple click, all in the palm of your hand!

Empower your team to monitor and record operations all over the cellar with ease!

Reach out today to take a tour of this cutting-edge new software and find the change you’ve been looking for!

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🤓 When you signed up with Process2Wine Software you get a dedicated account manager assigned to your project! 

💰 We are proud of being one of the most affordable solutions on the market, while offering some of the best features (truly from vine to bottle) and benefits!

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