The feasibility study SME1 allowed the company to commission an in-depth study of the market, gaining data much more accurate than those held by the company at the date of Project submission. The USA are the global biggest producer, followed from Italy and China.
In 2019 the global wine market (red, white and rose) reached 21 billions of liters. At regional level West Europe is the biggest producer (9,8 billions of liters), followed by North America (3,4 billions of liters), Asia (2,4 billions), Eastern Europe (2,1 billions), Latin America (1,7 billions), Middle East and Africa (1 billion), Oceania (0,6 billion).
In order to refine the use of the device GRAPE performed 48 different scientific experiments necessary to fix the unwanted mild colour change due to wine acidity, that makes results ambiguous, as the user expect to have yellow colour only with Brettanomyces growth.
Some of the tests performed are very promising for the Self-Brett® 2.0 development in order to fix the problem of the unwanted mild colour change due to wine acidity. For some of them, GRAPE didn’t change the pH indicator, instead added some salts, but further tests are still necessary to find the correct concentration to use, to finalize the pre-product formulation and homogenization for the industrial scale. For the industrialization plan GRAPE intends to proceed also with the container finalization, in order to to extend the product shelf-life. At the moment the product has a six months shelf-life, but it cannot be extended more due to the lackness of a proper seal, like an O-ring, in the cap that causes the agar medium to dry out and the loss of its efficiency.
