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Boost Your Portfolio with Blending

Meron’s blending recommendations offer a way to make your wine shine and adapt to the customer you want to reach.

Your portfolio is unique but sometimes little adjustments are all the difference between a top seller or a stock problem.

 

Blending is an art

Our expert team supports you in creating blends that enhance quality and appeal, ensuring you stand out from the competition.

Imagine the impact of offering clients a blend tailored specifically to market preferences.

 

The Science Behind the Art

While blending is an art form, it’s deeply rooted in the science behind it.

At Meron, we use advanced analysis techniques such as GC-MS/MS to evaluate components such as aroma, flavor balance, and texture at a molecular level.

This ensures that every recommendation is appealing to the palate and consistent with your target. With our data-driven approach, you can feel confident creating blends that meet market trends, retailers’ wishes, and quality benchmarks.

 

Drive Sales with Tailored Solutions

Your goals design our blending recommendations, whether you’re targeting premium buyers or want to have approachable options for price-conscious consumers. By focusing on your target audience, we help you create wines & spirits that resonate with your market, encouraging repeat purchases and loyalty for the consumer while showing retailers with data why they can expect a top seller.

Blending Test tubes inside Meron's Lab

Willem Schouten

Without temperature control, analysis would be unreliable and inconsistent. This environment allows for precision in identifying faults, understanding structure, and documenting development.

Why Wine Should Be Analysed Throughout Transport and Storage

A bottle might leave a winery in perfect condition, but its journey isn’t always smooth. Transport and storage environments vary wildly. From cargo containers to shop shelves, wines encounter heat, cold, vibration, and light. Each of these variables can influence flavour, aroma, texture, and ageing potential.

We have seen it happen: a wine that passed initial testing at the winery can taste very different after a long-haul shipment or poor storage conditions. That’s why it is smart to analyse wine at different points: before release, after transport, mid-storage, and pre-consumption. These stages reveal how the wine holds up in real-world conditions.

Wine Analysis Journey

Best Timing for Wine Analysis at Meron

The timing depends on your role in the wine’s journey as a producer, distributor or retailer.

  • Pre-release: Understand how the wine is evolving in bottle.
  • After shipping: Check for heat damage or cold stress.
  • During storage: Monitor consistency across different batches.
  • If something tastes off: Confirm whether changes in profile are due to environmental factors.

Our fully certified lab and independent testing can help identify what happened, how it happened, and whether it’s reversible or if it’s time to rethink storage or shipping protocols.

Does Temperature Define Wine Quality?

Temperature is not the only factor affecting a wine’s performance, but it is one of the most unforgiving. It can’t fix a wine’s flaws, but it can highlight or mask them. And once heat damage sets in, there’s no way back.

Handled well, temperature can bring out a wine’s complexity and balance. Mishandled, it flattens, distorts, and disappoints. Whether you’re sipping by the pool or sending a new vintage across the globe, a few degrees can change everything.

Before you raise your next glass, take a moment to check the temperature. It might just be the detail that lets the wine speak for itself.

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