MAGAZINE · GUIDANCE FOR WINEGROWERS

Knowledge for the estate. Not for the drawer.

Obligations, vineyard, cellar, digitalisation — explained briefly, with something you can act on tomorrow.

Obligations & law · 12 August 2026 · 6 min read

Plant protection records: what belongs in every entry now

Leaf wall area, BBCH stage, EPPO code: the set of required details has outgrown the notepad in the tractor. What exactly is required, how to capture it while you work — and why…

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Vineyard & climate · 5 August 2026 · 4 min read

Understanding leaf wetness: why 80 % is the threshold for downy mildew

What the sensor measures, when the infection window opens — and what turns that into a spray window.

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Obligations & law · 29 July 2026 · 5 min read

E-invoicing at the estate: what trade and restaurants now expect

ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung — what is behind the formats, which deadlines apply and why a PDF on its own is no longer enough.

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Cellar · 22 July 2026 · 5 min read

Append-only: why a good cellar book forgets nothing

Correction by reversing entry instead of an eraser — what audit-proof record keeping means in practice and what a wine inspection wants to see.

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Digitalisation · 15 July 2026 · 4 min read

Offline in the cellar: what a real cloud has to manage

Standalone, browser cloud or synchronising app — the three architectures compared, with the practical case of walk-in customers during an outage.

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Marketing & sales · 8 July 2026 · 4 min read

Packaging reporting without guessing: bottle weights that report themselves

Glass, cardboard, closure — how the packaging declaration comes out of your orders and why separating trade from private customers saves real money.

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Digitalisation · 1 July 2026 · 5 min read

“How much Riesling do I have left?” — what an AI assistant may do at a wine estate

Read-only, always with its source: why an assistant should not touch entries — and still saves time every day.

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