The following information provides Australian grapegrowers and winemakers with a guide for establishing a testing laboratory that is best suited to their needs.
- Designing and establishing a winery laboratory
- Setting up a microbiological laboratory
- Scope of operation
- Quality of data
- Australian standards of relevance to laboratories in the wine industry
Laboratory methods
- Chemical
- Conducting a bentonite fining trial
- Measurement of alcohol content of wine
- Measurement of cold stability of wine
- Measurement of density of wine
- Measurement of heat stability of wine
- Measurement of malic acid in wine
- Measurement of red grape colour
- Measurement of residual sugar in wine
- Measurement of sulfur dioxide in wine
- Measurement of the pH of grapes and wines
- Measurement of titratable acidity (TA) of grapes and wines
- Measurement of total soluble solids (TSS) of grapes and must
- Measurement of volatile acidity (VA) in wine
- Microbiological