Field notes from a 0.22 ha vineyard in Poland: frost automation, disease models, sensors and the day-to-day of running a small vineyard on real data.
Poland's Sejm passed an amendment to its alcohol law on 8 October 2026: a beer advertising ban, a nationwide night sales ban, legal online wine sales with e-ID checks, and an 'informational-cultural' carve-out for wine producers. What is new, what was banned for decades, and what to do with your winery's website.
Since December 2023 every wine sold in the EU needs an ingredient list and nutrition info, most of it behind a QR code. Here is what stays on the glass, what the word Ingredients is for, and why exporting to the EU makes this an Australian problem too.
EU electronic treatment records, cellar registers and PDO rules compared with Australia's Label Integrity Program, AWRI spray diary and WET. A practical guide for growers and winemakers looking across hemispheres.
From 2027 the EU requires plant protection product records to be electronic and machine-readable, with no area threshold. What changes, who it covers, what a record must contain, and where national rules differ.
