VRT Mentoring - Regenerative Viticulture without Toxics

A year to transform your vineyard.

An exclusive method to reduce costs, eliminate toxics and increase the quality of your wine.

VRT (Regenerative Viticulture without Toxics) mentoring is a personalized 1-on-1 program with Ton Rimbau, designed for winegrowers and wineries who want to go one step further. For 12 months, Ton exclusively shares his system, backed by decades of experimentation, so that you can implement a living, healthy and self-sufficient vineyard.

A process structured in 12 phases, with visits, follow-up and practical application in the field, which will turn your project into a benchmark of quality and sustainability.

👉 Get in touch to reserve your place and receive more information

+34 609 31 28 22

Areas of Mentoring

Diagnosis and initial planning

  • Complete check: what is done and how it is done.
  • Customized design of the work plan.

2. Implementation of regenerative practices

  • Herd introduction (October-March).
  • Pruning shredding and charcoal production (biochar), with the option of Trichoderma inoculation.
  • Use of non-chlorinated water (well, spring, river or rain).
  • Prepared 501 (before leaf fall).
  • Oak bark preparation (before Christmas).
  • Regenerative pruning.
  • Prepared 500 and Maria Thun (early spring).
  • Preparation 501 (apply when the shoots are 10-15 cm long).
  • Application of photosynthetic bacteria.
  • Plocher, Jadam and Biol methods (application of humus and microorganisms in spring, if necessary).

Technology and precision tools

  • From traditional hand tools to precision technology:
  • Stethoscope, 15 liter bucket with scale, dynamizer stick, digital thermometer.
  • Pruning and harvesting shears, graduated ladle, stainless steel pot with tap, gas or electric stove.
  • Mortar and pestle, strainers, toothbrush (for filters).
  • Cryptographic and colored information crystals (Vitroquántic).
  • Magnets and mother magnets (Acmagnets98).
  • Sensors and predictive models (Vin-Q).
  • Biodynamic atomizer (fine and coarse drop), multifunction compressor, double inter-row mower.
  • Fish tank aerator, drums, roller and Hidro Up system (for droughts, raises water by capillarity).

4. Plants that cure plants

  • Use of medicinal plants and concentrated extracts:
  • Russian comfrey, rosemary, thyme, horsetail, nettle, garlic, onion, peppermint, eucalyptus.
  • Restoration of the 312 secondary metabolites of grapevine.

5. Natural adhesives

  • Nopal.
  • Aloe vera.

6. Regenerative companions

  • Whey.
  • Urea.
  • Vermicompost.
  • Honey.
  • ORMUS.

7. Sexual confusion against Lobesia Botrana

  • Application of honey as a natural method.

8. Natural repellents

  • Human urine.
  • Wolf urine (natural pest predator).

9. Plant conduction

  • Cup systems, Royat cord (single or double), L-system.

10. Horizontal vermiculture

  • Implementation with expert collaborators (e.g. Raul “el Lombricero”).

11. Final verification visit

  • Review of all implemented phases to ensure the correct execution of the system.

12. Determination of the vintage

  • Definition of the best harvest days according to the type of wine to be produced.

13. Closing and certification

At the end of the mentoring, the participant will receive the VRT Diploma and the revelation of the Great Harvest Saving Secret, the result of Ton Rimbau’s direct experience.

  • Review of all implemented items.
  • VRT Diploma + revelation of the “Great Harvest Saving Secret”.

Mentoring Results

  • Cost reduction and elimination of chemicals.
  • Significant improvement in the quality of the grapes and the final wine.
  • Improved health and well-being for workers.
  • A more lively, balanced and sustainable vineyard in the long term.
  • Positioning as an international reference in regenerative viticulture.

Conditions

  • Duration: 12 months (annual mentoring).
  • Modality: 1 to 1, with visits and personalized follow-up.
  • Limited seating.

👉 Get in touch to reserve your place and receive more information


+34 609 31 28 22
tonrimbau@tonrimbau.com

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