As bottling season approaches, we’re here to support you with specialized testing services and essential products to ensure your wine is at its best.

Important Details for Testing Services:

• These tests are not included in your subscription pricing; individual pricing is listed below.
• Each test requires a separate sample, with specific volume requirements.
• Please label your samples clearly with the test name. For Turbidity (NTU) and Brettanomyces testing, ensure you write "NTU" or "Brett" on the sample tube cap and label for streamlined processing.

Available Tests and Pricing:

Stability Testing
(Please complete the Stability Test Request Form)

• Heat Stability Test: $20/sample (250 mL sample required)
• Bentonite Fining Trials: $75/sample (750 mL sample required)
  • Note: These trials take 3 days and will start the following Monday if submitted after noon on Thursday.
• Davis Conductivity Test: $30/sample (375 mL sample required)
• DIT – Degree of Tartrate Instability: $55/sample (375 mL sample required)
• ISTC50: $55/sample (375 mL sample required)

Additional Testing

• Brettanomyces Testing: $50/sample (50 mL sample required)
• Turbidity (NTU): $15/sample (50 mL sample required)
• Filterability Testing: $50/sample (to assess wine for bottling readiness)

Winemaking Products for Bottling Preparation & Troubleshooting:

To ensure your wine is bottle-ready, we offer a range of essential products:

• Cream of Tartar (Potassium Bitartrate): Available in 55 lb quantities.
• Enartis Citrogum: Sold in 1 kg units.
• Enartis Zenith Uno: Available in 5 kg and 20 kg sizes.
• Laffort Celstab: Available in 1 kg and 5 kg units.
• Laffort Mannostab: Available in 1 kg and 5 kg units.
• Filtrox Filter Pads: We carry all sizes of Filtrox Filter Pads for your filtration needs.

Filtration Steps for Bottling Preparation:

We offer a full range of Filtrox Filter Pads for each step of the filtration process:

Coarse Filtration

• Purpose: Removal of coarse particles and debris.
• Recommended FIBRAFIX® Sheet Grades & Retention Rates:
  • AF 09: Retention rate 10 – 30.0 µm
  • AF 11: Retention rate 10 – 30.0 µm
  • AF 17: Retention rate 8.0 – 20.0 µm

Fine Filtration

• Purpose: Final filtration before sterile filtration or bottling, depending on wine type.
• Recommended FIBRAFIX® Sheet Grades & Retention Rates:
  • AF 71 (barrique wines): Retention rate 1.5 – 3.0 µm
  • AF 101 (brilliant): Retention rate 0.6 – 1.5 µm

Sterile Filtration

• Purpose: Final filtration before bottling or pre-filter before membrane cartridge (CLAROX® MP).
• Recommended FIBRAFIX® Sheet Grades & Retention Rates:
  • AF 110 (germ reduction): Retention rate 0.5 µm
  • AF 130 (red and white wines): Retention rate 0.4 – 0.6 µm
  • AF 140 (white wines): Retention rate 0.2 – 0.4 µm

Peroxy & Citric (55 lb): We stock both Peroxy and Citric in 55 lb quantities for cleaning and preparing your tanks for bottling.

Brettanomyces Treatment Products:

If you’re dealing with Brettanomyces in your wine, we offer Microstab M and Oenobrett as the most effective treatments.

Fermentation Restart Products:

For wines that may need a restart on primary or malolactic fermentation, we carry essential restart products:

• BO213: A robust yeast strain for restarting fermentations.
• Enartis Restart Protocol: We also keep a copy of Enartis' restart protocol on hand, and our friends at Enartis can recommend the best yeast and bacteria for your specific needs.
• Hearty Malolactic Bacteria: Available to help with malolactic fermentation restarts.

These products, combined with our testing services, will help you fine-tune your wine, address any stability or clarity concerns, and ensure a smooth bottling process.

For more details, to request testing, or to place an order, feel free to contact us or visit our website.

Thank you for trusting myEnologist with your winemaking needs.

Dear Customer,

As bottling season approaches, we’re here to support you with specialized testing services and essential products to ensure your wine is at its best.

Important Details for Testing Services:

• These tests are not included in your subscription pricing; individual pricing is listed below.
• Each test requires a separate sample, with specific volume requirements.
• Please label your samples clearly with the test name. For Turbidity (NTU) and Brettanomyces testing, ensure you write "NTU" or "Brett" on the sample tube cap and label for streamlined processing.

Available Tests and Pricing:
Stability Testing
(Please complete the Stability Test Request Form)

• Heat Stability Test: $20/sample (250 mL sample required)
• Bentonite Fining Trials: $75/sample (750 mL sample required)
  Note: These trials take 3 days and will start the following Monday if submitted after noon on Thursday.
• Davis Conductivity Test: $30/sample (375 mL sample required)
• DIT – Degree of Tartrate Instability: $55/sample (375 mL sample required)
• ISTC50: $55/sample (375 mL sample required)

Additional Testing

• Brettanomyces Testing: $50/sample (50 mL sample required)
• Turbidity (NTU): $15/sample (50 mL sample required)
• Filterability Testing: $50/sample (to assess wine for bottling readiness)

Winemaking Products for Bottling Preparation & Troubleshooting:
To ensure your wine is bottle-ready, we also offer a range of essential products:

• Cream of Tartar (Potassium Bitartrate): Available in 55 lb quantities.
• Enartis Citrogum: Sold in 1 kg units.
• Enartis Zenith Uno: Available in 5 kg and 20 kg sizes.
• Laffort Celstab: Available in 1 kg and 5 kg units.
• Laffort Mannostab: Available in 1 kg and 5 kg units.
• Filtrox Filters: We carry all sizes of Filtrox Filter Pads for your filtration needs.
• Peroxy & Citric (55 lb): We stock both Peroxy and Citric in 55 lb quantities for cleaning and preparing your tanks for bottling.

Brettanomyces Treatment Products:
If you’re dealing with Brettanomyces in your wine, we offer Microstab M and Oenobrett as the most effective treatments.

Fermentation Restart Products:
For wines that may need a restart on primary or malolactic fermentation, we carry essential restart products:

• BO213: A robust yeast strain for restarting fermentations.
• Enartis Restart Protocol: We also keep a copy of Enartis' restart protocol on hand, and our friends at Enartis can recommend the best yeast and bacteria for your specific needs.
• Hearty Malolactic Bacteria: Available to help with malolactic fermentation restarts.

These products, combined with our testing services, will help you fine-tune your wine, address any stability or clarity concerns, and ensure a smooth bottling process.

For more details, to request testing, or to place an order, feel free to contact us or visit our website.

Thank you for trusting myEnologist with your winemaking needs.

--

Cheers,

Justin PhillipsWindsor Store Retail Associate
myEnologist
7975 Cameron Dr. #1700-1 | Windsor, CA 95492
707-812-1242
www.myenologist.com

Coming in from the vineyard with a bag of grapes and want an easier way to get a juice sample than using a strainer and making a big mess? Check out our video for our easy, no mess grape sample technique. https://vimeo.com/49790516

And once you get your juice sample send it in to us for a complete juice panel for only $40!  You get Brix, TA, tartaric acid, malic acid, pH, glucose/fructose, ammonia, alpha amino nitrogen and potassium numbers all for one low price.  If you sign up for our subscription services you can save even more. We have subscriptions that range in price from $10 to $20 per sample.  In addition to juice panels we also run wine panels for the same price. 

Click on the Contact Us tab for more information or stop by our office in Napa at 1866 El Centro Ave (at the corner of Byway East) or give us at call at 707.812.1242 to get started.

As harvest is starting to ramp up across California many winemakers are missing out on some important information about their grapes.  myEnologist is here to solve that problem, offering a full panel on juice samples at a price anyone can afford.  Our juice panel measures Brix, TA, Tartaric Acid, Malic Acid, pH, Glucose/Fructose, Ammonia, Alpha Amino Nitrogen and Potassium all for one low price.  Prices range from $10 - $20 per sample for our subscription services and $40/sample for occasional clients.

Why do you need to know all 9 things to make great wine?  Everyone already measures 3 of these 9 parameters (Brix, TA and pH) to judge maturity before picking.  The ammonia and alpha amino nitrogen are commonly used to determine the amount of nutrient addition that is necessary for a healthy fermentation to avoid stuck or stinky fermentations.  Knowing the tartaric and malic acid concentrations gives you a good picture of what is making up most of the total acidity of the wine and how a malolactic fermentation might affect that balance.  And potassium concentrations could help indicate whether your juice is buffered (and therefore more difficult to change the pH when acidifying.)  Knowing all of these parameters is quite useful when making important winemaking decisions such as when to pick, calculating additions rates and achieving stylistic goals.

Free courier service is available for subscription clients or samples can be dropped off at our office located at 1866 El Centro Avenue in Napa.  And while you're here you can stock up on everything you need for the lab or cellar!  We offer yeast, nutrients, chemicals, Remco products, safety gear, stainless fittings and so much more.  Check out our harvest offerings at our website or by downloading our harvest brochure located on the Producst/Services tab.

If we can help you with either lab analysis or harvest supplies please email us at info@myenologist.com or call 707-812-1242.

myEnologist has successfully completed the TTB's Chemist Certification program for wine analysis.  This certification is valid for two years and requires accurately measuring several key parameters of wine for export to other countries.  Look for us on page three of their Certified Labs listing at http://www.ttb.gov/ssd/pdf/certified-chemist-wine-july2013.pdf.

myEnologist is collaborating with Laffort, Filtrox and 3M/Cuno to bring you the very best in fining products, filtration media and equipment.  In addition to providing products we can offer the technical information and assistance to back you up and ensure that you are using the best practices and products to achieve your goals.

Through our relationship with Laffort we can provide you with a wide assortment of fining products to improve your wine’s stability, clarity, aroma or mouthfeel.  We’ve included the traditional fining agents on our order form (http://myenologist.com/resources/FiningFiltration.pdf) but we have many other products as well.

Filtrox is a Swiss manufacturer that’s been in the business of providing filtration solutions for the wine industry since 1938.  We carry their full range of products including an innovative filter pad to remove TCA and TBA from wine!  Pads range in size from 20x20, 40x40 and 60x60 and come in boxes of 100.  We have a great Filtrox reference sheet on our website: http://myenologist.com/resources/filtrox.pdf

For pre or final filtration to the bottling line we carry Code 7 30-inch 3M Cuno filter cartridges ranging from 0.80 -0.45µm.

For more information or to place an order please contact our National Sales Director Mark Del Arroyo at mdelarroyo@myenologist.com or 707.337.8444.  You can also click to download our order form http://myenologist.com/resources/FiningFiltration.pdf and fax it to 707.251.5806.

myEnologist also provides cost effective analysis packages, a wide range of consulting services and a full line of cellar supplies and consumables.  We utilize state of the art technology to provide routine analysis of juice and wine with affordable monthly pricing. We supply a full data panel on each sample for less than a single analysis might cost elsewhere.  Our consulting services range from full service winemaking to project based consultation such as cork grading or problem solving on a particular wine.

For analysis and consulting services please contact Leigh Meyering at 707-812-1242 or leigh@myenologist.com

myEnologist has teamed up with Filtrox and 3M to meet all of your filtration needs.  From pad filters to lenticular filters to water filters we can provide you with the best solution to get the job done.  Our customers who have switched to Filtrox’s pad filters have been pleasantly surprised, mentioning that there was less leakage than their other suppliers.  If you’re not sure what you need give us a call at (707) 812-1242 and we will come out to your winery and discuss the many options with you.  

From cellar supplies to wine analysis, myEnologist can help you make the best wine possible!

In January myEnologist launched a new Cellar Supplies segment and hired Mark Del Arroyo as the National Sales Director.  With over 30 years of cellar management, wine production and sales experience, Mark provides our customers with a selection of timely cellar supplies and consumables.  To simplify the ordering process for our customers we have put together an order form of our most popular items.  Just click on the link below and fill out the form and then fax it back or scan and email it to mdelarroyo@myenologist.com.

http://www.myenologist.com/resources/orderform.pdf

For additional products or volume pricing please contact Mark Del Arroyo at 707.337.8444 or mdelarroyo@myenologist.com.

For information on our innovative wine analysis program please visit our website at www.myenologist.com or contact leigh@myenologist.com.

We have been busy stocking our store with all of the products you need for a successful harvest.  We have a selection of fermentation products from Laffort and Maurivin, rakes, shovels and cleaning products from Remco, hydrometers, refractometers, stainless clamps and fittings, cellar chemicals and a range of safety gear (including boots!)  Stop by our office at 1866 El Centro Ave. in Napa or check out our offerings online at http://myenologist.com/8.html.If you are in need of juice (or wine) analysis during harvest we can help with that too!  We offer amazing deals on juice panels, ranging from $10-$40/sample, which is a fraction of what you would pay elsewhere.  More details can be found on our webpage at http://myenologist.com/6.html.

With the challenges of the 2012 harvest you need to be extra vigilant this year in watching your wines.  Volatile acidities tend to be higher this year and we have seen more challenges in keeping the Free SO2 numbers up at the desired levels.  Therefore it is imperative that you check these numbers at least monthly to ensure that your wines are protected.  myEnologist offers subscription services to make routine analysis of your wine lots cost effective and simple.  We also offer consulting services for winemaking and a full range of cellar supplies and consumables.  Check out our website at www.myenologist.com for more information.

myEnologist is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Del Arroyo to our team.  Over the next few months Mark will be building a selection of seasonal retail items to provide our customers with timely cellar supplies and consumables.  With 30 years of cellar management, wine production, and sales experience Mark can help you streamline your cellar operations and reduce your expenses.  To schedule a complementary evaluation contact Mark directly at mdelarroyo@myenologist.com, visit our website at www.myenologist.com, or stop by our office at 1866 El Centro Avenue in Napa.

As harvest winds down you can't help but ask yourself "Are we there yet?"  Now is the time to check whether alcoholic and malolactic fermentations are finished.  MyEnologist offers a full wine panel including Free and Total SO2, TA, pH, VA, Glu/Fru, Malic Acid, Lactic Acid and Ethanol for $10-$40/sample, a price everyone can afford!

For details check out our website at www.myenologist.com or stop by our office at 1866 El Centro Avenue in Napa (at Byway East, just south of Wine Country Ave.)  If you are outside of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, don't despair!  We accept samples through the mail!

For the last six months we have been serving the Napa Valley exclusively, but starting next month myEnologist will be expanding our services into the Sonoma Valley.  myEnologist provides cost effective analysis packages and a wide range of consulting services.  We utilize state of the art technology to provide routine analysis of juice and wine with affordable monthly pricing.  We supply a full data panel on each sample for less than a single analysis might cost elsewhere.  This allows you to get a complete picture of your wine or juice without having to choose between cost and data.

Outsource your routine lab analysis and monitor important parameters continuously with our monthly contract service.  Our low monthly pricing eliminates the need to defer or delay analysis to save money.  Waiting several months between analyses can be very costly if a problem goes undetected.  Now you can analyze samples every month for one low price.

Please visit our website www.myenologist.com or contact us directly (707.287.2119) to learn how we can save you time and money on your lab analysis.

As harvest is starting to ramp up across California many winemakers are missing out on some important information about their grapes.  myEnologist is here to solve that problem, offering a full panel on juice samples at a price anyone can afford.  Our juice panel measures Brix, TA, Tartaric Acid, Malic Acid, pH, Glucose/Fructose, Ammonia, Alpha Amino Nitrogen and Potassium all for one low price.  Prices range from $10 - $20 per sample for our subscription services and $40/sample for occasional clients.

Why do you need to know all 9 things to make great wine?  Everyone already measures 3 of these 9 parameters (Brix, TA and pH) to judge maturity before picking.  The ammonia and alpha amino nitrogen are commonly used to determine the amount of nutrient addition that is necessary for a healthy fermentation to avoid stuck or stinky fermentations.  Knowing the tartaric and malic acid concentrations gives you a good picture of what is making up most of the total acidity of the wine and how a malolactic fermentation might affect that balance.  And potassium concentrations could help indicate whether your juice is buffered (and therefore more difficult to change the pH when acidifying.)  Knowing all of these parameters is quite useful when making important winemaking decisions such as when to pick, calculating additions rates and achieving stylistic goals.

For more information please contact us and we would be happy to meet with you to discuss this or anything else we can do to help meet your winemaking and analysis needs.  We are located at 1866 El Centro Ave. in Napa, and we can be reached at 707.812.1242 or info@myenologist.com.

Lots of people have noticed our new sign on our new office in North Napa, a sign that can save you lots of money on lab analysis. 

If you're driving up Highway 29 north through Napa, look east through the oleander bushes just before you get to Wine Country Avenue and you will see our beautiful new myEnologist sign.  It sits atop our new office space, where we are now settled in and ready to run juice panels in addition to our regular monthly wine panels. 

When you visit us at our office or online at www.myenologist.com you will discover that we are quite a bit different than other labs, charging you one low price for a full comprehensive wine or juice panel.  Now you don't have to choose which analyses to select and which to skip to remain within budget.  We also offer a full range of consulting services, so you can now afford to have your very own enologist on call.

For more information please contact us and we would be happy to meet with you to discuss your analysis needs.  We are located at 1866 El Centro Ave. in Napa, and we can be reached at 707.812.1242 or info@myenologist.com.

Stop by on Thursday August 23rd for our Open House Celebration from 12:00-6:00 PM, everyone is welcome!

myEnologist is having an Open Houseto celebrate our new location on August 23rd from 12:00 - 6:00 PM.  Everyone is invited to come enjoy food, bubbles and a quick tour of the lab.  Please RSVP by clicking on "Send Me Info" or by sending an email to info@myenologist.com with your name, number of people attending and the approximate time so that we are sure to have enough for everyone.

Our office is located at 1866 El Centro Avenue in north Napa. From Hwy 29 go east on Wine Country Avenue, and then south on Byway East.  We are in the Cooperage Square plaza just south of the RV place and a couple of blocks north of the restaurant Fume.

We have recently moved into a new office to better serve our clients!  We are now located at 1866 El Centro Avenue in north Napa.
From Hwy 29 go east on Wine Country Avenue, and then south on Byway East.  We are in the Cooperage Square plaza just south of the RV place and a couple of block north of the restaurant Fume.

Stay tuned for our Grand Opening Celebration coming up at the end of August!  If you would like an invitation please click on the Contact Us tab and we will be sure to add you to the list!

Harvest is here and we are here to help!  myEnologist can help you with analysis of vineyard samples, tank or press juice, and barrel monitoring.

myEnologist provides great prices on juice, must, and wine panels.  myEnologist provides Brix, TA, pH, Glucose/Fructose, Ammonia, Alpha Amino Nitrogen, Potassium, Tartaric, and Malic on juice samples; Ethanol, VA, and Glucose/Fructose for fermenting must samples; and Free SO2, Total SO2, TA, pH, VA, Glucose/Fructose, Ethanol, Malic and Lactic on wine samples.

Annual subscription prices range from $200 a month for 10 samples to just $5 a sample at higher volumes.  Free courier service is available or samples can be dropped off at their lab inside Napa Barrel Care.

For more information visit our website at www.myenologist.com or call 707-812-1242.

Monitoring your grape maturity does not need to be expensive or time consuming.  myEnologist provides great prices on both juice and wine panels.  For each juice sample submitted, myEnologist provides Brix, TA, pH, Glucose/Fructose, Ammonia, Alpha Amino Nitrogen, Potassium, Tartaric, and Malic.  Annual subscription prices range from $200 a month for 10 samples to just $5 a sample at higher volumes.  Free courier service is available or samples can be dropped off at their lab inside Napa Barrel Care.  For more information visit their website at www.myenologist.com or call 707-812-1242 to find out how much you can save on juice analysis.