Workflow Overview
This guide provides tips and best practices for tracking whole cluster additions in Blended. Tracking in this way allows you to monitor whole cluster percentages consistently throughout the winemaking and blending process.
We recommend setting up whole cluster as a material and then recording additions of that material into batches. While the additions represent the grapes themselves rather than an external additive, tracking them this way makes it possible to measure and trace whole cluster additions as a percentage of the lot.
Add Whole Cluster as a Material
Start by adding Whole Cluster as a material in Blended. Below are examples of the Product and Batch. The size of the batch doesn't necessarily matter; we recommend having enough for the entire vintage. Refer to the materials section, Creating New Products and Add Batches.
Lot Creation
When creating a lot, be sure to include the total tonnage of any whole cluster additions. If the whole cluster comes from a different lot source, use the Blend function to combine them after the lot has been created.
Recording a Whole Cluster Addition
At this stage, the lot should exist with total tonnage and its volume equivalent, inclusive of any whole cluster additions.
With whole cluster set up as a material, you are ready to record the addition. Navigate to Production, check the box next to the lot you added whole cluster to, and complete the modal by entering the number of pounds of whole cluster added.
The system may prompt you to record a volume adjustment. Skip this step, since the lot’s volume already reflects the whole cluster addition.
Analytics in Practice
After the addition has been made, you'll find a record of it in the Lot's event stream, on the Additions tab, and within History.
As the wine gets blended, that additional history will carry forward through the blending process. Below is an example of what that same whole cluster addition looks like after it was blended with a Pinot Noir lot that didn't have any whole cluster added to it. Now, history is able to tell us where that whole cluster came from, the original addition rate, and the current whole cluster addition rate within the new Lot.