See some of our favourite shots of our 2015 – 2016 Growing Season here in the Adelaide Hills.

View some specially selected photos showcasing our 2014 – 2015 Growing Season here in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia.

Winter pruning is the start to the new growing season and is critical for the final outcome. Pruning starts with looking at the bud fruitfulness under the microscope to work out bud numbers and from there each block is meticulously hand pruned in different ways to achieve the target cropping levels.

Frost season is extremely high maintenance in the Adelaide Hills and our team has experience in a range of frost systems and management practices associated with preventative frost control. We are on call 24 – 7 to make sure that our systems are operating correctly!

This multi-tasking operation cleanly sweeps all the vine prunings out from under the dripline and mulches them into tiny wood chips.

Vitiworks has an experienced team that can complete all aspects of canopy management which include desuckering, wirelifting, shoot thinning, bunch thinning, leaf plucking and lateral thinning. Timing is critical to canopy management and the pro-active and flexible approach to changing weather conditions is essential.

Trimming is a mechanical operation that is associated with Canopy Management. The trimming / green tipping helps the vine revert from a vegetative growth stage to a reproductive growth stage where all energy is focused on the fruit. Trimming also helps with light interception and chemical penetration. Our mechanical trimming machine is extremely efficient with…

Our net wiz machine can apply bird netting over vine rows from single row to 5 row netting in a single pass. The netting is the finishing touch to the growing season keeping the fly rats away from our super premium fruit.

It’s the handpicking that can give the finishing touch to an amazing parcel of fruit. Our teams of pickers can hand pick up to 20 tonnes in a day. All logistics are organised from winery requirements to bins, buckets and transport.