BRAGATO RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Research The vision of Bragato Research Institute’s (BRI) vision is to transform the New Zealand grape and wine industry through research, innovation and extension. As the NZW research arm, BRI focusses its
Research is expensive. To leverage members’
research on the short- and long-term priority
levy funds, BRI also seeks contestable funding
areas identified by our members, and then
from government and other funders, co-funding
drives industry uptake of research outcomes.
from individual members, and collaborates with other research organisations. This has
In its initial three years of operation, BRI
enabled BRI to invest a total of $15.4 million
has established strong governance and
into research over the past three years,
management, put in place effective systems
compared to levy funding of $6.6 million.
and infrastructure, and attracted top science
Developments include:
capability. BRI’s national Research Winery in Hemisphere) opened just before the first
❱❱ a successful COVID-19 response fund application for processing grape marc
COVID-19 lockdown, and provides new
capability to deliver impact and science
❱❱ the upcoming announcement and launch of our largest ever research programme—
Blenheim (a facility unique in the Southern
excellence to members.
CLEAR VALUE PROPOSITION
into hand sanitiser
with significant government co-funding
Bragato Research Institute was created in June
❱❱ other sizeable applications, including to the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI)
2017, with $12.5 million establishment funding
Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund.
from from MBIE, and began operations in 2018. MBIE’s November 2020 review of BRI assessed
Collaborations this year included a Manaaki
the value of wine industry research to New
Whenua project looking at wine and climate
Zealand, including BRI's ability to realise this.
change, and a regenerative agriculture project
The review found:
with Beef+Lamb NZ.
“There is a clear value proposition for BRI, centred on the provision of specialist viticultural
BRI is also developing its income from a range
research, combined with a state-of-the-art
of commercial services to industry. In addition to
Research Winery. Bragato fills a gap not
commercial Research Winery trials, these include
supplied by other research organisations,
a new soil health consulting service, a fit-for-
providing immediate technical support for the
purpose wine sensory evaluation service, as well
industry to grow and thrive.”
as genomic analysis which provides an efficient
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