Viticulture and Wineries Editing and Proofreading Services

A buyer for a restaurant group is choosing between forty wines for six slots. They will spend ninety seconds on each technical sheet, and what they need is not the story of the estate. They need the analysis, what happened in the vineyard, what was done in the cellar, and an honest sentence about how this vintage differs from the one they listed last year.

We edit what wineries and vineyards produce — technical sheets and trade documentation, back label and product copy within the constraints that apply, vintage reports and winemaker notes, distributor and export documentation, cellar door and wine club material, vineyard and production records, competition and review submissions, and investment and land documents. Our editors work on the sheet that sells wine to people who buy wine for a living.

The technical sheet is how a winery talks to the trade, and its failure is a document written for a consumer and handed to a professional. A buyer, a sommelier and an importer need facts in a fixed order and will not hunt for them. We work through these so the analysis is complete and in one block — alcohol, titratable acidity, pH, residual sugar, and free and total sulphur where the market expects it — since a sheet missing pH is a sheet a serious buyer cannot use; so the vineyard information gives the sites with their soils, aspect, age of vines and yield in the units of the market, because yield is the number that separates claims about concentration from assertions; so the harvest data includes the picking dates and the condition of the fruit, given that this is what makes a vintage statement mean something; so the winemaking is described as decisions — fermentation vessel and temperature, malolactic or not, time on skins, élevage with the proportion of new oak and its origin — rather than as adjectives; so production quantity is stated in bottles, as availability governs whether a buyer can list it; so the vintage is compared honestly with the previous one in a sentence, since that is the buyer's actual question; and so drinking window and cellaring advice are given as a range with a reason. Sheets written this way get wine onto lists.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including technical data, production information, allocations and commercial material. We are editors rather than winemakers, viticulturists or regulatory advisers, and we offer no view on wine, appellation rules or labelling compliance. What we can do is put the facts where a buyer looks for them.