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Winery benefits

How much value is tied up while your wine waits?

Wine waiting to mature ties up cash, storage capacity and saleable stock.

Vinalchemy helps the winemaker establish and approve the result on the actual wine, then reproduce that treatment at production scale, supporting more saleable wine, shorter stockholding and earlier conversion to cash.

Improve the wine. Reduce the cost of waiting.

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The commercial challenge

What is waiting costing the wine and the winery?

Barrels, tanks, amphorae and concrete vessels remain occupied. Temperature control, storage, monitoring, handling, finance and inflation exposure remain with the inventory.

Opportunity

More saleable wine

Evaluate whether suitable wine streams can provide a greater saleable proportion from the same harvest.

Opportunity

Shorter selected stockholding

Bring selected stock to its approved endpoint sooner where the wine and programme permit.

Operational

Repeatable execution

Carry an approved VL250 treatment into controlled V6000 production through a digital recipe.

Operational

Better production visibility

Plan volume, time and gas. Supervise live status. Retain the process history.

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The cost of repeated intervention

What is repeated intervention
costing your winery?

Micro-oxygenation can bring an experienced winemaker or operator back to the same wine repeatedly—tasting, judging and adjusting oxygen flow as the treatment develops.

The cost is not just elapsed time. It is scarce expertise diverted from other wines, repeated exposure to dosing and timing decisions, and stock that can remain tied up while treatment continues.

Vinalchemy concentrates skilled judgement at trial and approval. Once the recipe and production plan are confirmed, the treatment can run under continuous monitoring and configured limits, with the team retaining visibility and authorised control.

Use winemaking skill where it creates value—not where repetition consumes it.

Illustration showing conventional wine ageing occupying capacity, storage and working capital month after month, compared with Vinalchemy trial, approval, earlier release and freed tank capacity.

SCARCE EXPERTISE

Keep skilled judgement focused

Focus winemaker expertise on trial, tasting and endpoint approval rather than repeated routine adjustment throughout production.

REPEATED INTERVENTION

Reduce the cycle of manual adjustment

Carry the approved settings into monitored production without depending on a long sequence of repeated oxygen-flow decisions.

PROCESS EXPOSURE

Govern the approved programme

Continuous monitoring, configured limits and authorised intervention keep execution visible without removing the winery’s control.

WORKING CAPITAL

Shorten selected stockholding

Where the wine responds appropriately and the endpoint is approved, faster processing can support earlier release and conversion of inventory to cash.

Illustrative route only; not a forecast or guarantee. Results vary by wine, approved programme, winery costs, operating conditions, system configuration and commercial terms. Earlier release and conversion to cash also depend on the winery’s production and sales decisions.

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Saleable-yield opportunity

An example winery illustration

In this illustrative UK case, treating 50% of a 56,700-bottle annual production and moving saleable utilisation from 60% to 65% produces approximately 2,363 additional bottles at the same selling price and within the same selling window.

2,363Approximately additional bottles
25%Hard-press fraction used in headline model
0%Lees recovery assumed in headline model

Qualified hard-press opportunity

Up to c.80%

Hard-press fractions require separation, sensory review and VL250 trials.

Qualified separated-lees opportunity

Up to c.95%

Lees recovery is performed by separate centrifuge equipment before any Vinalchemy treatment.

The c.80% and c.95% pathways are qualified opportunities, not assumptions in the headline model. Results vary by grape, press settings, separation method, wine response and winemaker approval.

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Still wine

More contribution. Less capital tied up.

Illustrative UK model | 56,700 bottles | 50% treated | selling price unchanged | saleable utilisation 60% → 65%

c.£27KRecurring annual modelled contribution uplift
c.£59KSeparate one-off modelled working-capital release
18 → 4Months modelled stockholding
c.2,363Additional bottles
£1.15 → £1.92Contribution per bottle
£3.10 → £2.33Modelled cost per bottle

The annual model includes lower holding costs, the conservative yield case and illustrative rental and gas costs. Rental and gas vary by winery specification, operating conditions, usage and contract. The working-capital release is separate from recurring contribution and is modelled as a rolling first-cycle release.

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Sparkling wine

More commercial value. An example sparkling wine illustration

Illustrative UK model | 56,700 bottles | 50% treated with Vinalchemy | selling price unchanged | legal minimum and post-disgorgement hold unchanged

c.£59KIndicative annual commercial benefit
c.£105KSeparate one-off modelled working-capital release
38 → 20Months modelled stockholding
£2.02 → £3.73Contribution per bottle
£7.43 → £5.72Modelled cost per bottle

The c.£59K headline is an indicative simplified commercial bridge. Incremental production costs on additional bottles are assessed in the detailed winery model. The nine-month legal minimum in bottle and three-month post-disgorgement hold remain unchanged. Rental and gas vary by winery specification, conditions, usage and contract.

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Shared illustrative UK model

Assumptions shown, not hidden.

Both examples

Production assumptions

  • 56,700 bottles annually
  • 50% of production treated
  • Selling price unchanged
  • Saleable utilisation 60% → 65%
  • 25% use of the hard-press fraction
  • Still 18 → 4 months; sparkling 38 → 20 months

Both examples

Cost assumptions

  • 4.5% inflation
  • 75% general borrowing at 8%
  • 20% wine-backed finance at 14%
  • Storage approximately £0.026 per bottle per month
  • US$1.27 to £1 workbook exchange rate
  • Illustrative rental and gas included

Modelled contribution means selling price less the production, holding, finance, inflation and technology costs included in the model. Working-capital release is shown separately as a one-off first-cycle release.

Illustrative results; not forecasts or guarantees. Results vary by wine, approved programme, winery costs, operating conditions, system configuration and commercial terms. The still and sparkling examples are separate and must not be added together.

A wine-specific starting point

What could Vinalchemy release in your winery?

Bring your wine, volumes, maturation routes and costs. We will replace the illustrative assumptions with your winery’s own information and define an appropriate trial and system route.

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