Personal Online Laboratory The ultimate in control of your laboratory analysis can be obtained using the Personal Online Laboratory Program offered by Vitis Consulting. The system we have made available will make it possible for anyone capable of following a cooking recipe to perform sophisticated laboratory analysis and then to obtain meaningful data that will help you make better wine. Simple Laboratory Kit Vitis Consulting has created a laboratory kit that contains all the equipment and the technical support necssary to perform many of the tests outlined in our section on Analytical Procedures. With this kit you will be able to analyze acetic acid, acetaldehyde, sugars, organic acids, ethanol, sorbitol and more. This Kit comes complete with all the materials necessary to conduct over 20 analytical procedures. There is a non-technical step by step set of instructions, backed up by online support. With these instructions as your base and our technical support you can be assured you that you will get accurate timely results. Data Analysis is the Key Performing the analysis and obtaining a precise result is only the first step towards assessing a wine. After various tests have been entered it is now possible to retrieve this data in various ways to show their results in various ways. By being able to present the data both in tabular and graphical forms it helps to give perspective of on the condition of the and in that manner to make sense out of those numbers. To the untrained person it can seem like a bewildering array of formulas required to make these analyses comprehensible. The Vitis Consulting method guides you in the collection of the data at your winery. After data collection, you log on to Vitis Consulting via the Internet. Select the analytical procedure for which you have just collected your sample data and you are  presented with the online form into which you place your data. Once the data has been entered, Vitis takes care of all the math and formulas right online. You are presented with the analytical result. Once the data has been submitted for analysis, it is stored in our database for retrieval at a later date for wine analysis. Data Display Brings the Point Home Time is the blessing and the curse of winemaking. Unless you understand the analysis you make as it relates over time, much of what is done is remains a guess. Having your data in one location, it becomes a simple mater to call up your results and have them display in a spreadsheet or in a graph. In the data display section you can call up the data for each lot of wine. This data can be displayed as a table of values.  Data Archive Lets the Past Prepare for the Future In the Data Archive section the all the results for previous entries are stored for your retrieval and display. There is a menu that will guide you to retrieve the data you wish to view. By entering the lot number of the wine and choosing the view type and the analytical procedure you will be able to look at data covering a period or compare two different wine lots.