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Stay on the Safe Side with Sartorius - Spoilage Detection for Winemakers
The art of winemaking is a challenging business. It can take generations to create an exceptional wine but you only have a few weeks to produce it. No errors should occur in this short phase so the wine can mature without any complications.
From vine to barrel, to bottle, to cellar – Sartorius’ dedicated Quality Control solutions for wine testing help you create the perfect vintage for generations to come.
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Applications in Your Quality Control (QC) and Our Product Solutions
You are committed to creating high-quality wine with consistent look, smell, feel and flavor from one bottle to the next. We are committed to providing you the products you need to ensure your wine’s taste, aroma and quality. For wine processing QC, we have solutions for the following applications:
Moisture Determination
At the end of production, to recycle waste and get the most out of your grape marc by-products, you can sell it as livestock feed, to a distillery or to a cosmetic manufacturer. Testing the moisture content of your grape marc is critical for preventing fungal contamination and ensuring you are selling grape marc with a known moisture content.
What to test?
Sartorius has products and solutions to help you detect moisture quickly and easily in your grape marc.
Moisture Analyzer MA 160
Flexible all-rounder offering fast and reliable moisture analysis for the widest variety of samples including extended data storage and security features:
- Fast and accurate results
- Easy to operate
- Status light for simple tracking of current progress during the measurement
- Fully automatic endpoint determination and calculation of the result
- Built-in 5 minute performance-check guarantees correct measurements at all times
- Effortless cleaning in the dishwasher thanks to Sartorius Better Clean Design
- Enables storage of up to 100 different methods to manage the measurement of various materials effectively and securely. The method development assistant function makes adaption to new materials and requirements easy.
Moisture Analyzer MA 37
Budget-friendly model for users who require a fast, 100% reliable analyzer for recurring samples that is easy to operate
- Fast and accurate results
- Easy to operate
- Status light for simple tracking of current progress during measurement.
- Fully automatic endpoint determination and calculation of the result
- Effortless cleaning in the dishwasher thanks to Sartorius Better Clean Design
Spoilage Detection
Despite having a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) in place, contamination can still occur at various stages of your wine production. The main contaminants of wine include: Lactobacillus, Oenococcus, Pediococcus, Acetobacter, yeasts and molds. These microbes can affect the flavor and smell of your wine and damage to your reputation and brand.
What to test?
By adhering to a robust sampling plan along the entire production chain from fermentation to filling you can easily detect undesirable microbes.
For fast, effective, and efficient detection of potential spoilage microorganisms in your wine production, Sartorius has easy to use products and solutions to help you detect them early enough to prevent tainted wine reaching your customers.
e.motion Dispenser Membrane filters
Membrane filtration is the established method of choice for water testing as you can test a higher volume of the sample by concentration of potential contaminants on the membrane filter. This method provides reliable and reproducible results. The recommended filter type for microbiological testing of liquid samples is cellulose nitrate (mixed cellulose ester) filter with grid lines. Your benefits include:
- Various filter colors allow the optimal contrast to colonies for easy quantification and identification
- High recovery rates of microorganisms
- Fast flow rates of liquid samples with High flow membranes
- Easy colony counting due to clear colony morphology and distinct grid lines.
- No inhibition of microbial growth by grid lines
- Available in 2 different packages sizes
- Configured for use with automatic Mircrosart® e.motion dispenser
Microsart® e.motion Dispenser
Microsart e.motion Dispenser: Automatic membrane filter dispensing either by touch of a button, hands-free motion detection or by using a foot switch minimize risks of secondary contamination. Your benefits include:
- Space-saving small footprint
- Automated opening of the filter package makes workflow easier
- Available with battery option that avoids cable clutter
- Big pack with 250 filters avoids re-loading during a shift
Microsart® Manifold
Facilitate your routine microbiological testing procedures with the new Microsart® Manifold: select the proper manifold for your individual microbiological testing procedure, choose between reusable and single use funnels or filtration units, and decide between different sizes of manifolds and enjoy the manifold that adapts to your needs.
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Microsart® e.jet pump
Liquid transfer pump connects to Microsart® Manifold as the vacuum source for the filtration of your liquid samples. Your benefits include:
- Small footprint
- Can be adapted directly to the manifold, no need for suction flask or Woulffs bottle
- External pump head, making it easy to change pump direction or exchange entirely
Biosart® 250 Funnel
Reusable funnel with a volume of 250mL, adapted to a cellulose nitrate membrane filter on the Microsart® Manifold. Your benefits include:
- Can be autoclaved up to 20-30 times
- No need for flaming of the funnels after each filtration step
Microsart® 250 Funnel
Single use funnel with a volume of 250 mL, adapted to a cellulose nitrate membrane filter on the Microsart® Manifold. Your benefit includes:
- Single use funnel for minimized risk of secondary contamination
- No autoclaving of the funnels needed
- No need for flaming of the funnels after each filtration step
Biosart® 100 Monitors
Ready-to-use sterile filtration unit in 100ml volume. Combine a funnel, a lid, a filter base, a gridded membrane filter and a cellulose pad in one unit. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time and handling steps as autoclaving of funnels and base is not needed
- Minimize the risk of secondary contamination
- Available in different pore sizes and membrane colors
- Different ampoule media types available for water testing
Biosart® 100 Nutrient Media
Sterile ready to use liquid Media in a 2.5ml ampoule. For use with Biosart Monitors or Cellulose Pads in Petri dishes. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time because no preparation of media needed
- Saves space in laboratory refridgerator
- Different media types for water and beer testing available
- Long shelf life of 9-12 months
Microsart@filter
Ready-to-use sterile filtration unit in 100 or 250ml volume. Combine a funnel, a filter base and a gridded
membrane filter in one unit. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time and handling steps as autoclaving of funnels and base is not needed
- Minimize the risk of secondary contamination
- Reliable results as no liquid remains after filtration
Nutrient Pad Sets (NPS)
An attractive alternative to agar plates, NPS are dehydrated media pads in petri dishes, , packed in double layer Aluminum protective bag, come along with suitable membrane filters for economical, time-saving microbiological quality control of water and brewery samples. Your benefits include:
- Eliminate time-consuming, labor-intensive culture media preparation
- No need for cooling of the NPS during storage or transportation due to dehydrated media
- Long shelf-life of 2 years
- Suitable membrane filter included (pore size and color)
New Video: Nutrient Pad Sets: For Quality Control of Beer Samples
Prospenser Plus
Bottle-top Dispenser, dispenses an exact volume of sterile water for wetting the Nutrient Pad Sets for activation of the nutrient media.
To make certain the quality and flavor of your wine meets your customer’s high standards, you need to perform analytical quality control testing. When red wine ages in barrels, your samples are sent to the lab for analytical testing to ensure the aging process is progressing properly. These tests can detect the following:
- Maturity of grapes - from grape to bottle
- Fermentation process control
- Sulphur dioxide
- Confirmation that harvested fruit is fully mature
- How ingredients are changing to make decisions about altering your wine’s chemistry (for example adding acid, sugar, or tannin)
- Key chemicals to maintain optimal chemical stability
What to test?
- Basic analytical tests include Wet Chemistry Assays, , Gas Chromatography (GC), Atomic Adsorption (AA), Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- Sugar levels in your grapes
- Conductivity, pH, sugar content, alcohol concentration/vinegar concentration, oxygen levels, yeast titer, color and odor
To run any analytical or sensory tests, you need the right tools for sample preparation, such as pipettes, laboratory balances, syringe filters, filter papers and water purification systems. The quality of your results depends on the quality of your samples, and at Sartorius we provide the right products and solutions to make your sample preparation for analytical testing fast, effective, and efficient.
Arium® Mini UV Water Filtration System
High-quality water is important to all analytical processes, but it is especially important when performing chromatographic analysis, such as HPLC, GC-MS, or ICP.
Arium® Mini lab water system: a compact ultrapure water system specially designed for labs with requirements up to 15 liters per day. Key advantages:
- Constantly low conductivity: ASTM Type 1 water to increase sensitivity of analytical results and minimize chemical ion interference
- Consistently low TOC levels: Remove TOC levels down to a minimum and avoid background noises in chromatograms
- Reliable process stability: Offering a variety of services, e.g. installation, equipment qualification (IQ|OQ), preventative maintenance etc. ensuring consistently reliable water quality along the entire life cycle of the system.
- Ease-of-use: Intuitive menu navigation with easy-to-use touch display
- Space-saving unit with a width of only 28 cm (11 inches)
Filter papers
Many analytical QC tests in brewery labs require a filtration step prior to the testing procedure to pre-process the sample. Circular, pleated filter papers of different grades are placed into a funnel leading to a receptacle and are used to remove turbidity from wort, to remove yeast cells after fermentation and to reduce CO² or degas the sample prior to tests such as density measurement or specific gravity.
The filter papers fitting best into your beer process are these types:
- Filter paper grade 292a : FT-4-215-320
- Filter paper grade 1289: FT-4-207-320
- Filter paper grade 6: FT-4-312-320
- Filter paper grade 4b: FT-4-309-320
Cubis®️ II Premium Laboratory Balance
A completely configurable, high-performance portfolio of lab balance hardware and software that will align with your unique demands and compliance requirements to maximize operational efficiency and experimental outcomes. Your benefits include:
- Large 7“ color display, including touch, scroll, swipe functionality with factory installed essential weighing applications and diverse QApp Packages for optional software extension
- Built-in applications guide you through your workflows
- Fast and easy levelling guaranteed with automatic, motorized levelling function
- Status Center for user notifications and alerts. User management including centralized password management support, high security password configuration, login rules.
Quintix® Lab Balance
A reliable lab balance for faster and better weighing results. Your benefits include:
- The Start Assistant function and SmartTouch user interface enable you to operate the balance right-out-of-the-box and feel at ease using all the functions available
- Intuitive applications guide you through simple steps in each of your workflows.
- Quickly and easily transfer, evaluate, further process, or save and document weighing results in perfect compliance with legal requirements – just by using Plug & Play technology, without the need for any extra software or complicated settings
Prospenser and Prospenser Plus
- Provides accurate and precise dispensing throughout their long lifetime thanks to the high-quality materials
- Low weight provides comfortable usability
- Excellent chemical resistance
Tacta® Pipette
- Superb comfort and incontestable reliability helps you to achieve minimal variation throughout the working day.
- Best ergonomics with soft tip attachment and light ejection protects the user.
- Only three parts to clean enforces contamination free pipetting – combine with Safe-Cone filters or Safetyspace Filter tips to boost contamination control and prolong the pipettes lifetime.
Optifit Tips
- Perfect fitting and sealing with Sartorius pipettes secures the highest possible accuracy and precision.
- Wide volume range and packaging options to suit your application and use.
- Optifit tips meet the highest purity and quality standards.
Minisart® Syringe Filters
- Minisart® RC is optimized for aqueous liquids and solvents and is compatible with DMSO, other amides, ketones, esters and ethers.
- Minisart® NY Plus uses a pure quartz glass fiber prefilter optimized for sample preparation for all medium to highly particle-laden samples prior to analytical tests.
- Minisart® High Flow offers fast flow rates for low to medium particle-laden samples without any prefilter material, without increasing hold-up volume.
Claristep®
- The Claristep® Filtration System is the best choice for easy handling and low hold-up volume for small sample volumes.
- See our application note for Claristep® and food/beverage.
Air Monitoring
When producing wine, knowing which microorganisms are present in your production environment is critical. Wine is most at risk of contamination when it is being decanted from the barrel into bottles, as sugar in the wine acts as a growth medium for many microorganisms present in ambient air. Microbial contamination of your wine can then occur while the bottle is on the shelf, changing its flavor and odor.
What to test?
Test ambient air for airborne microorganisms, for example at your filtration and filling lines, as well as at other critical points in your production areas
Using products and solutions from Sartorius, you can quickly and easily test for airborne microorganisms to help prevent microbial contamination of your wine.
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MD8 Airport
A portable device to monitor microbiological air quality in your beer production area and at the filling line. Your benefits include:
- Battery operated and portable
- Ergonomically designed and easy to clean
- User-friendly prompting with the option of four languages: English, French, German and Spanish
- Flexible options for customized use, including adjustable air throughput and air flow rate
- Storage of last-used parameters, even after automatic shut-off
- Can be calibrated on-site
Cubis®️ II Premium Laboratory Balance
A completely configurable, high-performance portfolio of lab balance hardware and software that will align with your unique demands and compliance requirements to maximize operational efficiency and experimental outcomes. Your benefits include:
- Large 7“ color display, including touch, scroll, swipe functionality with factory installed essential weighing applications and diverse QApp Packages for optional software extension
- Built-in applications guide you through your workflows
- Fast and easy levelling guaranteed with automatic, motorized levelling function
- Status Center for user notifications and alerts. User management including centralized password management support, high security password configuration, login rules.
Quintix® Lab Balance
A reliable lab balance for faster and better weighing results. Your benefits include:
- The Start Assistant function and SmartTouch user interface enable you to operate the balance right-out-of-the-box and feel at ease using all the functions available
- Intuitive applications guide you through simple steps in each of your workflows.
- Quickly and easily transfer, evaluate, further process, or save and document weighing results in perfect compliance with legal requirements – just by using Plug & Play technology, without the need for any extra software or complicated settings
Entris® II Lab Balance
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Process Flow Chart for Your Wine-Making Process*
Discover the different steps in the wine workflow and click on the icon „+“ to get to know the variety of applications and solutions Sartorius offers for testing during your vinification process.
*This workflow may not exactly represent your wine workflow however generalizes the QC checkpoints
