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 wines, vessels, lots, inventory, lab analyses and density-meter readings in from a CSV — the columns each one expects, how you check the mapping before anything is written, and how to undo an import.
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 a RAPT Pill
The whole RAPT Pill setup in order — hotspot password, WiFi, the webhook form that will not take a tokened URL, and calibrating against your own hydrometer.
Connecting fermentation sensors (Tilt, RAPT)
Point a Tilt Hydrometer 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.

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