I-GRAPE

The i-GRAPE consortium is composed of a balanced team of complementary EU organisations including industrial partners, research centres and universities, all of them with strong experience in the field of micro- and nano-electronic technologies. The consortium comprises 6 partners from 3 southern European major wine producing countries... i-GRAPE aims at developing a new generation of analytical methods for stand-alone, on-the-field control of the grape maturation phase and vine hydric stress, based on highly integrated photonics components and modules (wafer and wafer/package level micro-spectrometers). In a highly competitive market, to achieve high quality wines, measuring and monitoring vine hydric stress, and the grape ripening process with simple, rapid and cost-effective techniques will allow the winemaker to control irrigation in the latest steps of grape maturation, and plan the harvest at the optimum time therefore optimizing wine quality at the end of the wine value chain.