The AI-powered 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 — Vidal Blanc
14.6 Brix · pH 2.89 · TA 12.2
Block D — Norton
Veraison 35% · nothing worth sampling yet
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
One tier, for bonded wineries, priced on how many cases you make rather than how many people log in. It starts with 30 days, and no card is asked for to begin. When the trial ends the cellar waits until you subscribe — nothing is deleted, and your records stay exportable in full whether you carry on or not.
from $149
per month at the smallest band; monthly or annual (15% off) through Winery, billed annually from Regional
Questions
Nothing is deleted and nothing is held hostage. Suspension for non-payment stops the app at the billing page and touches no record — you can still sign in, still read and print the returns you filed, still export everything. 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. Closing is not deletion: what goes is the way in and the personal details, and the books stay. Each record is kept for at least three years from its own date or its last entry, whichever is later — 27 CFR 24.300(d) — and a TTB officer may require up to three years more. The obligation belongs to the record, and to the winery, and it outlives the account: nothing counts down from the day an account closes, and nothing is scheduled to remove the books.
Any time, without asking. Every table as CSV, or every record at once in an uncompressed zip that opens with nothing of ours installed. Export is never gated on what you pay — the subscription gates filing, not the ability to leave. Photographs attached to journal entries are the one thing the zip leaves out, and it tells you how many, so you are never left thinking you have them.
Yes. Fermata is for wineries that file. Everything in it — the cellar, the lab, the vineyard, the journal — is built around the movements ledger that becomes TTB F 5120.17, and the return, the tax classes and the cased-goods book are the software rather than an add-on that can be left off.
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.
Two problems, and they take different answers. Confidentiality: each winery's rows are fenced inside the database by row-level security rather than by a filter the application has to remember to add, and a suite of adversarial checks tries to cross that boundary against a real database on every push — code that fails them cannot merge. Integrity: movements, sprays, the journal and cost entries are append-only by database trigger, so a correction is a reversing entry and nobody, ourselves included, can quietly rewrite what happened. Your account can carry a second factor and locks after five wrong passwords; ours must carry one, and the support console locks itself after thirty minutes unattended. Commits are scanned for credentials and dependencies for known vulnerabilities before anything ships. There is no outside audit yet, and we would rather say so than imply one.
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, and there is no cap on how many people a winery holds.
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.
In three places, and they are all buttons: suggesting yeast for your fruit, assessing a plan you have already built, and generating the fermentation protocol from the plan you wrote — why each row is there, which strains were weighed up and not chosen, and what to watch for. 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's own sequence and every weight in it, 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.