Lot Details, History and Composition in Blended

Winemaking software is great for helping you keep organized in the cellar, showing you all your lots, where they are, and their critical measurements and needed operations. It takes a little time every day to keep the software up-to-date with the latest operations and measurements, but Blended makes those efforts pay off in helping you get value out of the data you’re putting in.

Measurements

Blended automatically displays graphs of any measurements you’ve taken, provided you’ve recorded the same measurement at least twice for a lot. If you’re recording temperature and brix during fermentation, you can see those curves to see how your fermentation is progressing. If you take SO2 and VA measurements during aging, you can stay on top of your SO2 and keep an eye out for rising VA. You can see at a glance if there’s a trend in your measurements or if there’s an outlier that deserves a second look. In the example below you can see the evolution of pH, malic acid concentration, and free SO2 over time.

Additions

Blended will collate all the additions you make to your lots and can show you the date, amount, concentration, and batch codes (if you’re linking up additions to your materials inventory) of everything you add to your wine. It can summarize additions across categories, so you can see the total additions of yeast, nutrients, tannins, or other products, depending on how you have categorized your inventory. The example below has summaries for SO2 additions and yeast, though if you use more products in your winemaking it would show considerably more detail than this sample.

Lot History

Blended can take the entire history of a lot and display it in a form that lets you see how it has changed over time, especially across blends that can introduce components from other lots. The history shows points where volume has been taken from the lot and blended into another lot, and points where other lots have been mixed into the main lot, either through topping or blending operations. Critically, you can see how the lot’s composition has changed over each one of those blends, allowing you to track the factors critical for labeling compliance: AVA/county/state/vineyard/block/estate, variety, and clone. You can similarly track the history of other additions to the wine, seeing what products and batches are present even in small quantities. It’s especially interesting to see if the composition is showing a tiny amount of some variety that you’re surprised to see in the blend, you can trace through the lot’s history to see where it came in.

In the example below, we have a lot that is used to create a topping blend, and then later it’s topped with that blend, and then after that it brings in significant volume from being blended with two other lots.

Lot Composition

The composition view displays a similar breakdown of the lot’s components that are necessary to know for label compliance, showing you AVA/county/state/vineyard/estate, variety, clone, and vintage with percentages of each. This provides a good check before bottling to back up the source and composition claims you’re planning to put on the wine’s label.

In the view below we see the composition of a pinot noir that comes from a single estate vineyard but is a blend of three different clones.

Having all this information at your fingertips, kept up-to-date with the latest data you’ve entered, shows what Blended can bring to your winemaking. If you’re used to using pen and paper or spreadsheets to track your lots, you can see that Blended can show you analysis that you’d only get by crunching a lot of data by hand. Being able to track exact composition across all operations, even topping, is important to give you the full picture of your wines and help you stay compliant. If you’ve used other winemaking software, you’ll find that Blended offers new and powerful features to give you insight into a wine’s entire history, and not just its current snapshot. 

By making your winemaking data easy to use, Blended helps you produce your best vintage every time.