Free fining trials, Lab cut off dates, Accurate Sulfurs and more
Vintessential & Enartis Fining & Sensory Workshop
Bring in your wine for extensive fining trials to see how you can make the subtle improvements that make a good wine even better! Ray has extensive experience and she has helped many winemakers get the best out of problem or dull wines, utilising the wide range of Enartis products.
With: Ray Chen (Enartis Technical Winemaker) and Wally Ceccato (Vintessential State Manager, Victoria)
When: Friday 11th December
Location: Vintessential Dromana Tasting Room
Cost: Free
Get in early to book your trial session with the range of Enartis products.
**Limited session times are available**
Call Wally for further details on (03) 5987 2242 or email wally@vintessential.com.au
Christmas lab cut-off dates VICTORIA
Re-open: Monday 4th Jan
Wine Micro: Monday 7th Dec
Water Micro: Monday 14th Dec
Petiole: Friday 11th Dec
Heat & Cold Stab: Monday 14th Dec
4EP/4EG, Methanol/Smoke Taint/ Ethyl Acetate/Acetaldehyde: Monday 7th Dec
Trace Metals: Monday 14th December
All other testing: Wednesday 16th Dec
**Samples must arrive by midday on the cut-off date for each test**
Christmas lab cut-off dates NSW and SA
Re-open: Monday 4th Jan
Wine Micro: Monday 7th Dec
Water Micro: Wednesday 16th Dec
Petiole: Wednesday 9th Dec
Heat & Cold Stab: Monday 14th Dec
4EP/4EG, Methanol/Smoke Taint/ Ethyl Acetate/Acetaldehyde: Friday 11th Dec
All other testing: Wednesday 16th Dec
**Samples must arrive by midday on the cut-off date for each test**
Christmas lab cut-off dates WA
Re-open: Monday 4th Jan
Wine Micro: Monday 7th Dec
Water Micro: Wednesday 16th Dec
Water Effluent: Friday 11th Dec
Petiole: Friday 11th Dec
Heat & Cold Stab: Tuesday 15th Dec
4EP/4EG, Methanol/Smoke Taint/ Ethyl Acetate/Acetaldehyde: Friday 11th Dec
All other testing: Friday 18th Dec
**Samples must arrive by midday on the cut-off date for each test**
All good winemakers need to measure Free and Total Sulfur Dioxide.
If you’re currently doing this with the arduous technique of Aspiration Oxidation, also known as the Rankine Method, you know just how laborious it is. This test has been around for decades and it’s about time an alternative came along – and here it is!
After extensive development and testing we now offer a new and innovative way to test for Free and Total SO2. And unlike some other commercial products these Test Kits do not contain formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen.
Our new SO2 kits are also the most accurate on the market! We tested hundreds of wines in the validation stage of development of these kits and the results are better that we have seen for any other competitor kits. The data is shown on our Factsheets here:
ChemWell T Free SO2: Av Diff to A/O 1 mg/L; R2 0.96.
ChemWell T Total SO2: Av Diff to A/O 1 mg/L; R2 0.96.
ChemWell 2910 Free SO2: Av Diff to A/O 0 mg/L; R2 0.97.
ChemWell 2910 Total SO2: Av Diff to A/O 2 mg/L; R2 0.99.
Thermo Gallery Free SO2: Av Diff to A/O 1 mg/L; R2 0.92.
Thermo Gallery Total SO2: Av Diff to A/O 0 mg/L; R2 0.99.
Vintessential Spectrophotometer: Free SO2: Av Diff to A/O 4 mg/L; R2 0.95.
Vintessential Spectrophotometer: Total SO2: Av Diff to A/O 3 mg/L; R2 0.99.
The new Vintessential Free SO2 and Total SO2 Test Kits are developed to work with a range of Discrete Analysers including the Vintessential ChemWell T ($14,400 + GST), Vintessential ChemWell 2910 ($29,900 + GST) (both supported by our service team), Thermo Gallery, Thermo Arena and Konelab XT, as well as our own Vintessential Spectrophotometer ($1600 + GST) enabling you to complete this test much more safely and easily, using far fewer chemicals and saving you lots of time.
More details are available here:
Free SO2 Kit for Discrete Analyser $189 + GST
Total SO2 Kit for Discrete Analyser $189 + GST
The Vintessential SO2 Test Kit advantage includes:
- Cheaper price per test
- Already in solution (no diluting powders required)
- Used in our labs around Australia
- On average 340 tests per kit
- Huge time and labour saving
- Most accurate of any method
- Little or no sample treatment required
We are using these kits in all our own labs and you should too!
