GL-VitiLab tool for CL6 topics

Developed by Galanakis Laboratories, GL-VitiLab is a laboratory-validated decision-support toolbox for sustainable, climate-resilient and low-input vineyard and winery operations. It connects field monitoring, targeted analyses of soil, leaves, grapes, must and plant-health materials, wine-sector scenario modelling and structured AI-assisted, expert-reviewed reports.

The toolbox translates evidence into operational recommendations for reducing grape losses, winery waste, water and energy pressure, and unnecessary inputs while protecting grape and wine quality.

By deploying GL-VitiLab, adapting it to a demonstration vineyard or winery, or developing a tailored decision-support layer, GL can support CL6-2027 topics through:

• Combining soil and microclimate monitoring, pH/EC/temperature checks and canopy/stress assessment to inform irrigation, disease-risk and harvest decisions.

• Validating field and operational signals through soil, leaf, grape and must analyses, including maturity, nutrient and stress indicators, microbiological risk and targeted molecular pathogen testing where relevant.

• Using a wine-sector scenario layer to assess how drought, heatwaves, disease pressure, harvest or processing delays, water/energy pressure, additive use and missing by-product valorisation affect losses, waste, resources and quality risk.

• Generating traceable, expert-reviewed recommendations on harvest-window selection, irrigation adjustment or cut-off, treatment and processing priority, waste reduction, additive management and pomace/lees valorisation.

• Enabling performance tracking against relevant project indicators, including irrigation inputs, disease-alert reliability, harvest planning, avoidable losses, resource intensity, waste valorisation and climate-resilience performance.