amaea Limited

amaea Limited is a New Zealand-based wine technology company developing advanced molecular filtration solutions for the wine industry. Through collaboration with Wine Australia and Australian industry partners, amaea is helping address one of the sector's most significant climate-related production challenges: smoke taint in wine.

Working with Wine Australia, amaea has been validating amaea VPx, a novel smoke remediation technology that uses molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) to selectively remove volatile phenols and other smoke-related compounds from wine. Unlike many conventional remediation approaches, the technology is designed to target smoke-taint compounds while preserving the desirable aroma, flavour, texture and varietal characteristics of the wine. This gives winemakers greater flexibility to recover value from smoke-affected fruit and maintain wine quality following bushfire or smoke exposure events.

The Wine Australia-funded project AMA 2401 – Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) for smoke remediation of wine focused on validating amaea VPx in Australian wine production conditions, supporting industry adoption and establishing the regulatory and commercial pathways required for market entry. The technology is delivered in Australia through Barossa-based filtration specialist VAF Memstar and builds on successful commercial deployment overseas.

amaea is also working with the Australian industry to expand the application of its molecular filtration technologies beyond smoke remediation. More recently, Wine Australia has supported validation of amaea CSx, a technology aimed at wine cold stabilisation, demonstrating the potential for molecular filtration solutions to address a range of wine production challenges.

By providing innovative processing technologies that help wineries recover value from smoke-affected wines while maintaining quality, amaea contributes to the resilience and sustainability of the Australian grape and wine sector and supports adaptation to increasing climate-related risks.