Tutorials

Short, step-by-step guides to every part of MakeWine — from your first wine to provenance QR codes and team accounts.

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Getting started

Getting started: your first wine
Register a free MakeWine account, add your first wine to your cellar, upload a photo and find your way around the wine detail tabs.
Importing your data from a spreadsheet
Bring existing wines into MakeWine from a CSV file — the expected columns, a downloadable template, and how skips and errors are reported.
Tracking a fermentation
Start a fermentation batch with full lot, vessel and yeast metadata, record readings, get automatic ABV estimates and follow the winemaking guide.
Using the free wine calculators
Eight free winemaking chemistry calculators — SO₂, acid, sugar, YAN, ABV and more — with no login required, plus a worked ABV example.

Cellar & hardware

Cellar vessels, lots, racking, blending and barrels
Register your tanks and barrels, open traceable lots, record rackings, build blends with auto-calculated percentages and track oak influence.
Connecting fermentation sensors (Tilt, iSpindel, RAPT)
Point a Tilt Hydrometer, iSpindel or RAPT Pill at your batch's webhook URL and watch live gravity and temperature readings chart themselves.
Lab readings, batch costs and the additions log
Record pH, SO₂ and other lab analyses, log every addition, and track batch costs through to a cost-per-bottle figure on the wine page.

Vineyard & calendar

Phenology forecasts, disease risk and block weather
Get science-based budburst, flowering, veraison and harvest predictions plus mildew and black-rot risk for every block — free, driven by nightly weather.
The smart calendar: activities, templates and iCal
Plan vineyard and cellar work on the smart calendar — views, activities, vineyard and winemaking templates, suggestions and iCal subscription.
Vineyard blocks, the spray diary and EU-compliant records
Set up vineyard blocks, log sprays with automatic PHI withdrawal dates and FRAC rotation warnings, and export an EU 2023/564 register in one click.

Team & sites

Multi-site and inter-site transfers
Run several physical locations in one MakeWine account — sites, the header site selector, per-member access and inter-site transfers.
Team accounts and roles
Invite colleagues into your MakeWine account, assign roles, switch between accounts and review the activity log.

Selling & compliance

EU e-labels and export certificates
Create a compliant EU e-label (Reg. 2021/2117) from your wine's real records, publish its QR page and prepare export certificates.
Partners: grower–winery supply links
Link a winery with the vineyards it buys fruit from — consented data sharing, spray-record read-through and vine-to-wine provenance.
Provenance QR codes and labels
Publish a public provenance page for your wine, put its QR on a printed label, sign it digitally and track scans.

Account & billing

Billing, plans and your data
MakeWine's plan tiers, how to upgrade or cancel, what the plan-limit prompt means, and why downgrading never deletes your data.