db discovers how FOSS Analytical equipment has helped Gérard Bertrand to maintain high quality in its award-winning wines. Putting aside the oft-referenced factors of unique terroir, prestigious grape varieties or generations of experience, how does one make fine wine? The solution, increasingly, is small tabletop equipment that looks more at home in a laboratory than an ancient cellar. For the last 25 years, FOSS Analytics has been producing such technology and helping winemakers get the best from their grapes. Though the technology is complex, the premise is simple. By checking the chemical makeup of the wine-to-be, whether must, fermenting juice or a wine ready for bottling, winemakers can act quickly and precisely to make the best possible product. Using a FOSS machine, one can measure up to 30 parameters from a single sample, including sugar, acid, nitrogen and sulfur dioxide levels, as well as tannin ripeness. For fine winemakers, where precision is key, the technology is often indispensable. Gérard Bertrand Group understands that better than most. It has been using FOSS machines to support in crafting its award-winning wines, which have taken home major international prizes, helped put the Languedoc on the map for fine wine and secured Gérard Bertrand a place in The Master Winemaker 100. Paul Correia, quality and CSR manager at Gérard Bertrand, spoke to db about how such rapid analytical machines aid the producer’s winemaking. These sorts of analytical instruments (ones that deliver multi-parameter results in a few seconds) came on the scene about 25 years
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