Coastal Viticultural Consultants

What Coastal Viticultural Consultants does

Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc. (CVC) is a privately held precision viticulture services and technology company founded in 2000 in Angwin, California, serving wine grape growers and vineyard owners in premium Northern California wine regions. Its core service offerings span irrigation monitoring and consulting, full-service vineyard management (as a licensed Farm Labor Contractor and Certified Pesticide Business License holder), soil mapping and evaluation via the trademarked TerroirView® methodology, county-wide powdery mildew detection networks, GIS services, vineyard nutrition program design, and phenolics sampling and analysis. Differentiated technology includes a patent-pending real-time Plant Stress measurement system that replaces pressure chambers and porometers with 20-minute-interval leaf temperature and leaf VPD readings from in-canopy sensors, plus the proprietary Spore Trap 800, which samples 500% more air volume than competing spore traps. The company sells through direct B2B field relationships backed by the CVC Ag mobile app, integrating Ranch Systems RanchMaster weather stations and aerial imagery partners into a single monitoring stack for clients, with services delivered by Certified Professional Soil Scientists, Certified Crop Advisors, and Certified Professional Agronomists averaging decades of experience.

CVC operates a hybrid revenue model combining recurring subscription monitoring and consulting fees, managed vineyard services, technology subscriptions through the CVC Ag platform, and laboratory/analytical services. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is founder-led by President Bryan L. Rahn (CPAg/SS, CCA), employs 11-50 staff, has no external institutional ownership or disclosed funding, and has executed no M&A. Recent strategic activity has centered on product and platform expansion rather than market or channel expansion: the Spore Trap 800 was released in March 2024, the CVC Ag mobile app launched in 2024, and a weekly berry phenolic tracking service was added in January 2025. Geographic reach remains concentrated in Northern California premium wine regions, with no indication of multi-region or international expansion.

Name

Coastal Viticultural Consultants

Legal name

Coastal Viticultural Consultants, Inc.

Website

https://coastalvit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Coastal Viticultural Consultants is a precision viticulture services and technology company serving premium wine grape growers in Northern California with irrigation monitoring, soil evaluation, disease detection, vineyard management, and phenolics analysis anchored by proprietary plant-stress and spore-trap technologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Viticulture Consulting

NAICS

Grape Vineyards (111332), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Grape Growing & Canopy Management (In-Season Vineyard Operations) (AFAGAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Irrigation, Fertigation & Water Management (Vineyard-Specific) (AFAGAJAC), Vineyard Establishment & Development (Site Prep, Trellising, Planting) (AFAGAJAA), Vineyard Certification & Sustainability Programs (Organic, Biodynamic, Regenerative, GAP) (AFAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Precision viticulture consulting
• Vineyard irrigation monitoring
• Powdery mildew detection
• Vineyard soil mapping
• Grape phenolics analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Angwin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional agronomy and viticulture consulting services delivered by Certified Professional Agronomists, Certified Crop Advisors, and Certified Soil Scientists. Includes site visits, irrigation recommendations, and ongoing vineyard management consultation.
2. Vineyard Management: Full-service vineyard management including vineyard design, planting, and harvest operations delivered through licensed Farm Labor Contractors.
3. Technology Services: Real-time monitoring services including plant stress data, spore detection reports, phenolics analysis, and weather station data through the CVC Ag app platform.
4. Laboratory Analysis: Plant tissue sampling, phenolics analysis, and soil laboratory analysis services with color-coded reports delivered via email and hardcopy.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Coastal Viticultural Consultants (CVC) is a precision viticulture consulting firm that delivers irrigation monitoring, vineyard nutrition, soil terroir evaluation, disease detection, GIS mapping, vineyard management, and phenolics analysis services to wine grape growers. The firm combines proprietary patent-pending real-time plant stress sensing, the Spore Trap 800 mildew sampler, and the trademarked TerroirView® soil evaluation with on-site consulting and licensed farm labor operations to optimize premium wine grape production.

Product overview

Coastal Viticultural Consultants offers a comprehensive suite of precision viticulture services organized as interconnected modules. The core offerings include Irrigation Monitoring & Consulting with patent-pending real-time plant stress technology (CVC Stress Index), Sustainable Vineyard Management, TerroirView soil mapping, the Grape Powdery Mildew Network (featuring the Spore Trap 800), GIS Services, Vineyard Nutrition, and Phenolics Sampling & Analysis. Add-on modules include RanchMaster Weather Stations from Ranch Systems, Aerial Imagery Services via partners, and the CVC Ag mobile app for client access. All services integrate with their proprietary technology platform to optimize wine quality through data-driven vineyard management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TerroirView®: CVC's trademarked comprehensive soil evaluation service that describes vineyard distinctive terroir using GPS, GIS technology, laboratory chemical analysis, soil profile descriptions, and photographs.

Products and services

• Irrigation Monitoring & Consulting Precision irrigation monitoring and consulting service for wine grape growers. Uses CVC's patent-pending real-time Plant Stress measurements (leaf temperature, leaf VPD, canopy temperature collected every 20 minutes, 24/7) to replace pressure chamber, porometer, and ET monitoring stations. Delivered through weekly vineyard observations by trained viticulture staff (including phenological stage, shoot length, and CVC Stress Index rating in Soil-Water-Plant Relations graphs) and site visits with irrigation recommendations by Certified Professional Agronomists, Certified Crop Advisors, and Certified Soil Scientists.
• Sustainable Vineyard Management Full-service vineyard management for wine grape operations, from vineyard design and planting through harvest, delivered by licensed Farm Labor Contractors and Certified Pesticide Business License holders. Crews execute vineyard tasks using CVC's technology-driven practices to support premium wine grape production, reduce vineyard carbon footprint, and optimize soil health.
• TerroirView Soil Mapping & Testing Trademarked (TerroirView®) comprehensive soil evaluation service for vineyards. Combines GPS and GIS technology, complete laboratory chemical analysis, soil profile descriptions, and photographs to deliver soil amendment and rootstock recommendations, site-specific soil maps, water-holding capacity ratings, and vineyard design and layout maps. Delivered by in-house Certified Professional Soil Scientists.
• Grape Powdery Mildew Detection Network County-wide powdery mildew spore detection service for vineyards. Provides growers with county-wide spore count maps from samples collected weekly or twice weekly by CVC's trained staff, plus quantified spore count reports to direct scouting and spraying teams. Powered by the proprietary Spore Trap 800 device.
• GIS Services Geographic information system platform that captures, manages, analyzes, and displays geographically referenced vineyard data. Includes base maps to overlay aerial imagery, soil mapping, and vineyard observations; maps for climate, frost hazard, or trellis modification studies; and maps to guide field crews or subcontractors.
• Vineyard Nutrition Custom-designed plant nutrition programs for vineyards. Plant tissue samples collected at pre-bloom, bloom, berry softening, and harvest; variety- and rootstock-specific fertilizer recommendations backed by 30+ years of viticulture interpretation experience. Easy-to-read, color-coded reports delivered via email and hardcopy.
• Vineyard Phenolics Sampling and Analysis Precision sampling and analysis service monitoring key wine quality markers — polyphenols (flavors), catechins (tannins), and anthocyanins (color) — to fine-tune harvest timing and elevate vineyard appeal to grape buyers through in-season phenolic testing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Spore Trap 800 samples 500% more air volume than competing spore traps
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ranch Systems, InccoreTechnology or IntegrationCVC offers Weather Stations by Ranch Systems, Inc. RanchMaster is a modular suite of six field monitoring and control solutions. Weather stations integrate with CVC's service offerings to provide comprehensive vineyard monitoring including soil moisture tracking and valve control for irrigation automation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Trellis Ag Analytics: Trellis Ag Analytics provides data, analytics, and yield forecasting for vineyards and wineries, overlapping with CVC's GIS, phenolics, and aerial-imagery-linked decision-support services.
• Sentek Technologies: Sentek manufactures soil moisture and salinity probes widely used in vineyards and orchards; its sensors underpin irrigation decisions analogous to those enabled by CVC's soil moisture and plant stress monitoring stack.
• CropX: CropX offers soil moisture and irrigation analytics with a hardware-plus-SaaS stack for specialty crops including vineyards; it overlaps with CVC's irrigation monitoring and soil-related advisory services, though its reach is global rather than regionally concentrated.
• Pessl Instruments (METOS): Pessl Instruments' METOS brand provides field weather stations, soil moisture probes, and disease modeling for vineyards and orchards worldwide; the disease-modeling capability competes with CVC's powdery mildew network and weather-station offering.
• Vintrace: Vintrace provides vineyard-to-bottle software for wineries and growers, including vineyard management and harvest scheduling modules; it competes with CVC's CVC Ag app and phenolics-driven harvest-timing services on the data and planning layer.

Direct peers

• Tule Technologies: Tule Technologies provides precision irrigation and plant water stress measurement for vineyards using canopy temperature-based systems, directly competing with CVC's real-time plant stress monitoring. Both serve premium California wine grape growers with sensor-driven irrigation intelligence.
• Ranch Systems: Ranch Systems manufactures the RanchMaster weather stations and irrigation control modules CVC resells; they are both a partner and a direct competitor in vineyard monitoring hardware and software, serving the same Northern California grower base.
• SureTech Laboratories: SureTech Laboratories provides agricultural testing services including plant tissue, soil, and water analysis — directly overlapping with CVC's laboratory analysis, tissue sampling, and phenolics testing product lines.
• Trecé: Trécé supplies spore trapping and pest monitoring products used in grape powdery mildew IPM programs; their spore trap devices are direct alternatives to CVC's Spore Trap 800 for early mildew detection in vineyards.

Broad incumbents

• Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness: Wilbur-Ellis is a large diversified ag retailer and crop advisor serving vineyards across the western US; it competes with CVC's agronomy, nutrition, and crop protection advisory services as a broad incumbent with deeper bench and capital.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC_8_dEwmYwCToCkTM5hyIrQ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cvc-ag-services

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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