Case Study: Vineyard 29 reduces harvest labor and streamlines winemaking with vintrace by Encompass Technologies

Vineyard 29’s first harvest with vintrace

Vineyard 29, a winery in St. Helena, California, was struggling to keep harvest operations organized and accurate during busy seasons. Head Winemaker Keith Emerson and Assistant Winemaker Tim Mills were spending late nights writing work orders, making manual pump-over plans, and dealing with data entry backlogs, leading them to look for cloud-based winemaking software from Encompass Technologies.

Encompass Technologies implemented vintrace, which gave Vineyard 29 a mobile-enabled system with better data integrity, preloaded winery information, and API connectivity to TankNet to reduce double-handling. The winery used vintrace to enter data in real time from any device, streamline lab reporting, and cut paperwork, which reduced seasonal labor costs by around 50% and lowered the harvest crew from 4-5 interns to just two.

Vineyard 29

Keith Emerson

Head Winemaker