One of the most critical elements effecting wine quality is the temperature of the grape juice during fermentation. Grant and Marie identified that many producers control this temperature by manually adjusting flow valves on tank cooling systems requiring many hours of monitoring and often leading to sub optimal results. Their solution called VinoScan provides a fully automated system that offers fine temperature control and dramatically reduces the monitoring hours required, leading to a more stable
fermentation and higher quality wine.

Grant and Marie are both from outside the wine industry with a background in managing and delivering complex multidimensional IT projects. They came into the program with a structured and logical approach to their learning and readily embraced and applied the theoretical tools such as the business model canvas. They have demonstrated significant growth in their ability to consider their business holistically as opposed to a collection of jobs that need to be done. This has helped them to understand their value chain as a system and identify where they need to focus to create and capture value.