Winery intelligence platform
From yeast trial to harvest call to bottle — Fermata tracks every vintage, every lot, every number, so you know exactly when.
Free for 30 days. No credit card, no rush.
Block C — Syrah
24.1 Brix · pH 3.62 · TA 6.1
Block A — Traminette
21.8 Brix · pH 3.28 · TA 7.4
Block F — Chambourcin
19.4 Brix · pH 3.15 · TA 8.2
Everything in one cellar
Form 5120.17 built from the movements ledger rather than typed again at the end of the quarter. The cellar-versus-ledger check runs before you file, filed periods freeze, and amendments supersede rather than overwrite.
Costs land on a lot and follow it: blend two lots and the money moves in proportion, rack one and the gallons you lost leave their cost behind with the wine that made it through — so cost per gallon rises, which is correct and is what a spreadsheet gets wrong. Every figure says how complete it is.
One record spanning the fruit, the ferment, the finishing and the bottling run — with the wine you are aiming at described on the eight WSET axes. Run two arms off one juice and compare their curves on those same axes.
Every variety judged against its own target window, because there is no global idea of ripe. A block farmed for two wines is two picks with two verdicts, off one morning's sample — and fruit that has run PAST a window is told apart from fruit still on its way.
Press, rack, filter, blend, bottle — each writes the ledger first and the cellar's picture second, then schedules the next racking before you walk away. Loss is counted on what was drawn, not on the whole lot.
Gravity, pH, TA, malic and free SO₂ per lot, with sulfur calculated as molecular SO₂ at the wine's own pH. Bench a blend and the numbers say how much they can be trusted: alcohol and acid computed, pH only ever estimated.
Yeast, malolactic cultures, nutrients and fining agents, each transcribed field carrying the sheet it came from. Where nobody has published a figure the catalog says so, because an unrecorded killer factor is not the same as a safe one.
Applications logged with the interval that applied on the day, PHI and REI counted down against the first fruit off the block, and a warning when the one you are about to start lands after it. A tank mix takes the longest interval in it.
The journal is append-only, the way a paper cellar book is — a correction is a new entry, never an edit. And everything you log comes out whenever you like, as plain CSV in one file that opens with nothing of ours installed.
How it works
Three habits, one season. Fermata carries the numbers so you can keep your hands in the fruit.
Readings, sprays, and cellar notes in seconds — from the crush pad, the lab bench, or the rows. The phone view is built for a cold hand and one thumb.
Your numbers become curves: ripeness by block, fermentation by lot, chemistry over time. Nothing is invented — every line traces to a reading somebody took.
Pick windows, racking dates, resample reminders, and the return itself — each with the data behind it, and each saying plainly when it does not know.
Pricing
The free tier is free, and stays free. Either paid tier starts with 30 days, and no card is asked for to begin. Whichever you land on, the ledger, the cellar and the export are the same — what a bonded account adds is the TTB return built from them, and what it costs is set by how many cases you make rather than how many people log in.
$0
no charge, and no card
$79
a year, per winery — one vintage
from $129
per month at the smallest band, billed annually — from $1548
Questions
Nothing is deleted and nothing is held hostage. Suspension for non-payment pauses the TTB dimension and nothing else — you can still sign in, still record movements, still export. Closing an account takes a 45-day notice, during which everything keeps working, and it cannot complete until you have taken a full archive of your records.
Any time, on any tier, without asking. Every table as CSV, or the whole account in one uncompressed zip that opens with nothing of ours installed. Export is never gated on what you pay — the paid tier gates the return, not the ability to leave.
No. The hobbyist tier is the same cellar without the federal paperwork — lots, vessels, lab, vineyard, journal and the movements ledger all work the same. What a commercial account adds is the TTB return built from that ledger and the fields that exist only to fill it in.
It builds the form from your movements and reconciles the books before you sign, and a filed period freezes exactly as filed. Submitting it to the TTB is still yours to do, and so is deciding it is right — this software records what happened; it does not give advice about what you are obliged to file.
Not the ones that are yours rather than your account's. The support console is a separate application whose database role is granted read access to named tables only, and it has no grant at all on journal entries, tasting notes, additions, plans or trials. That is enforced by the database rather than by policy, and every account a staff member opens is written to a log they cannot edit.
Yes. A winery has a team, and four roles: anyone can record what they did in the cellar or the rows, fewer people can change the numbers a record is judged against, and only an owner signs a return. A consultant winemaker can belong to several wineries with one login.
It carries cost the way it carries gallons. What you spend lands on a lot and follows it: blend two lots and the money moves in proportion, rack one and the cost of the gallons you lost stays with the wine that made it through, so cost per gallon rises. Every figure says how complete it is — a lot with no fruit cost recorded reads as uncosted rather than as cheap wine. What it does NOT do yet is cost a bottling run, so this is a cost per gallon in the cellar rather than a cost per bottle. Commercial accounts only.
In three places, and they are all buttons: suggesting yeast for your fruit, assessing a plan you have already built, and explaining a ferment protocol back to you. Those cost a credit each, because each one is a real request to somebody else's service. Everything else the app works out itself — the protocol, the schedule, the lab arithmetic, ripeness, the return, cost of goods, every reconciliation — is included and always will be. Nothing runs on page load and nothing spends a credit in the background.
No. Every step of setup can be skipped and filled in later — what is missing shows on the dashboard rather than standing in your way. A first vintage is chaos, and software that insists on a complete premises address before it will record a gravity is software you stop opening.
More in the manual, which needs no account.