How it works

A vintage in Cellrkit.

From the first load of grapes to the last report of the season. What a year looks like when the cellar keeps its records in one place.

Six moments, in the order they happen. Each one is a real screen, and each one writes down what the next one reads.

01 · Harvest and intake

It starts at the weighbridge.

A load comes in. Grower, vineyard, cultivar, kilos. That opens the lot, and everything after this hangs off it.

  • Book the delivery in beforehand, or write up a walk-in while the trailer is still standing there.
  • The planner shows what is coming against the tank space you have free.
  • A lot can exist before it has a tank, so where it goes is a decision and not a guess.

What it writes down

  • grower and vineyard
  • kilos off the bridge
  • cultivar and vintage
  • the lot it opens
Grape intake with a received Grenache delivery
Grape intake.

02 · Fermentation

The curve tells you what is going on.

Take a Brix and a temperature every day and the ferment draws its own curve. A good one falls. A stuck one goes flat, and you can see it coming.

  • The board puts every ferment in the cellar on one screen, healthy and stuck together.
  • Yeast, inoculation and the nutrition stages all sit on the lot.
  • A stall gets raised on the overview instead of waiting for you to go looking.

What it writes down

  • daily readings
  • yeast and inoculation
  • nutrition stages
  • status changes
Fermentation detail with its Brix curve, flat where it stalled
A stuck ferment, visible at a glance.

03 · Cellar work

Rack, top, fine, adjust.

Every job is a work order against a lot and a tank. Doses go down with the product, the amount and the supplier batch. Move wine and the volumes on both sides stay straight.

  • Fine with egg, milk or fish and the lot gets flagged off the additive itself.
  • A transfer moves both tanks at once, so the two can never disagree.
  • Change a volume by hand and it wants a reason before it will save.

What it writes down

  • jobs and who did them
  • doses with supplier batches
  • wine moved between tanks
  • volumes and corrections

04 · Blending

Try it on paper first.

Work the options out before you move any wine. The trial shows what the blend is made of and what it can be called. Make it for real and the parent lots, the percentages and the flags all come across.

  • Put trials side by side and pick on the numbers instead of on memory.
  • Cultivar and vintage percentages move as you change the volumes going in.
  • A flag on any lot going in ends up on the blend. It never quietly drops.

What it writes down

  • what is in the trial
  • cultivar and vintage percentages
  • flags carried over
  • which lots it came from
Blend trial with live composition and Wine of Origin percentages
A blend trial, checked live.

05 · Bottling

Checked before a single bottle fills.

A run opens with its checks read off the record. Cultivar, vintage and origin. SO₂ against the limit. Allergens. Turbidity. If something has not been measured, the run waits.

  • The checks read the lot itself, so nothing gets typed in twice and nothing gets assumed.
  • The product carries its bill of materials and the lots put into it.
  • Finish the run and you get a case-goods lot with its own balance.

What it writes down

  • the pre-bottling checks
  • run details and volumes
  • what still needs measuring
  • the lot code
Bottling run held at pre-check, five checks passed and turbidity outstanding
A run held at pre-check until turbidity is measured.

06 · The record

The whole season, played back.

Months later, one report plays the lot back. Intake, tanks, doses, moves, status changes, each with the person and the time. Download it when somebody asks.

  • It runs the other way too, from a bottled product back to the fruit.
  • A correction shows up as a correction, with the original still readable.
  • Nothing carrying evidence is deleted outright, for at least the five years SAWIS expects.

What it writes down

  • the full timeline
  • people and times
  • parent and child lots
  • CSV download

Afterwards

The questions a season has to answer.

A record is only worth keeping if it answers the question that turns up long after the wine has gone. These are the ones cellars actually get asked.

What went into it
every dose on the lot, with the product, the amount, the supplier batch, the person and the time
Where it has been
each tank it sat in, when it went in, and what it left behind
What it is made of
the lots it came from and in what proportion, back through every blend to the fruit
Whether it carries an allergen
flags off the fining agents you actually used, carried through blending
Who did it
the person on every reading, dose, move and correction
What changed since
the log: record, what happened, which fields moved, who and when

Every screen on this page is live Cellrkit, shown with the demonstration cellar. Filing stays with your cellar. This is the evidence behind it.