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AVA Neighborhood Watch - Vineyard Health Program

Collaborating Across Napa and Sonoma to Detect and Combat Red Leaf Disease. 

An affordable, proactive program to detect red-leaf symptoms and map vineyard health and virus-risk zones, empowering you to prioritize vine-level actions this season and collect data for informed decisions before financial planning in 2026-2027 season.

NOTE: We have worked with our technology partners on a special group rate to lower the cost for this limited time program in-order to get broad based participation. 

 

This collaborative effort includes growers and vineyard management companies from all Napa Valley AVAs:

Atlas Peak, Calistoga, Chiles Valley District, Coombsville, Diamond Mountain District, Howell Mountain, Los Carneros, Mount Veeder, Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley, Oakville, Rutherford, Spring Mountain District, St. Helena, Stags Leap District, Wild Horse Valley, Yountville.
 
We are also including Sonoma’s Moon Mountain District in this program.
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Proactive Vineyard Health Management With Scout:

Our vineyard intelligence platform delivers a complete solution for inventory, health monitoring, and red leaf virus mapping. Using our mobile apps, growers can perform guided and targeted sampling in the field. The Scout Mobile app allows additional field notes and photos to be captured. Scout Via supports rapid diagnostic, creating an end-to-end workflow from detection to action.

Scan via
ATVs and Tractors
  • Configure Cameras, GPS in 15 minutes
  • Scan via tractor / ATV
  • Geotag and Map Each Plant
  • Assign Unique id for Each Plant
  • Upload Data to Scout Cloud
  • Full Inventory
Scout-Actionable Insights - Virus
Actionable
Insights
  • Identify Visible Red Leaf Symptomatic Vines
  • Group symptomatic vines by zones and tags
  • Quantify Risk Across Blocks
  • Visible Red Leaf Reports with photos
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Mobile
Virus Diagnostic
and Sampling
  • Guided Mobile Sampling
  • Capture Field Notes
  • AI Assisted triage and knowledge base
  • Triage Abiotic Stress vs. Virus
Tracking
Track
and
Act
  • Map Field Notes and Lab Samples
  • Track Lab Results
  • Track all Roguing Actions
  • Set Watchlist for Neigboring Vines
  • Order Replants Using Inventory

How Does The AVA Program Work:

Step 1 - Reserve a spot before September 1st, 2026.

Step 2 - Scout team will work with you or your vineyard management company to scan between Aug 1st - Nov 30th 2026

Step 3 - Vineyard mgmt. company or your vineyard team scans your vineyard and securely access your inventory and health insights within days.

Step 4 - Scout team will review the insights and help you create zones and an action plan.

Step 5 - You can use Scout Mobile and VIA for targeted, efficient triage.

Step 6 - Take action that protects vineyard health and productivity.

Community Red Blotch Video Resources:

Frequently Asked Questions

Scan your vineyard 4x faster than manual virus scouting on foot. We inventory the complete vineyard, mapped every plant, then create health and risk zones, guided sampling workflows, lab result tracking.  It’s an end-to-end workflow — from detection to follow-up actions — not just aerial-level imagery

We work with more than ten vineyard management companies who have been trained on Scout and can provide scanning services. We are adding more every week. Please contact us or have them contact us and we can expedite the onboarding.

We work with more than ten vineyard management companies who have been trained on Scout and can provide scanning services.

Scouting and inventory can be done up to 8× faster for mapping, 4× faster for counts, with 10× more data, all at less than 9 cents per vine. Growers have saved 5–20 hours per block on replant management alone .

Initial inventory results and red leaf symptomatic mapping are delivered within one week. The Scout mobile app and Scout Via provide realtime feedback. This means you move from scan to action this season.

Existing Scout customers can join the AVA program without disruption. This is a great opputunity to increase visibility to new vineyards and blocks and perform a single scan to inventory and check heath.  You’ll gain the additional neighborhood-scale risk context while continuing to use the same Scout platform you already trust. 

Yes. Even clean vineyards face risks from neighboring blocks. The AVA program quantifies risk without assuming you have a problem. Many growers use it simply to establish a verified baseline inventory and monitor changing conditions over time .

Over the past year, the Scout system has achieved high precision in analyzing vine imagery, delivering over 98% accuracy in inventory and plant mapping across customer blocks.

Virus detection, however, presents a different challenge — one where timing is critical. Visible Red Leaf symptoms can appear late in the season or resemble other stress indicators such as water deficit, heat damage, or natural senescence. Miss the window, and the signal can be lost.

For that reason, we recommend conducting multiple scouting passes throughout the season to capture both early indicators and post-harvest expression. If you only do a single scan, the risk is that there are some symptoms that are not fully developed. In addition, PCR or LAMP testing should be used to confirm disease presence and support diagnostic accuracy.

No. Using Scout helps proactive surveillance of symptoms. Mapping is designed to flag areas for closer inspection and guide your testing strategy. Many clients include LAMP and PCR tests across both symptomatic and asymptomatic vines to confirm and track virus presence.

All data remains grower-owned and confidential. The system uses a secure operational framework so your information isn’t commingled with other vineyards or exposed in ways that could affect land value .