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Adoption of International Units of Measurment in United States Wine Analysis

!!! IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!

Changes to Reporting Units

What:

ETS has completed conversion of their reporting units to comply with the strong recommendations of the Wine Institute Technical Committee effective Monday, 18 January 2010. The following table shows the analytes that will be affected, the old units previously used, and the new units:

Analyte	Old Units	New Units
carbon dioxide	mg/100mL	g/L
fructose	g/100mL	g/L
glucose	g/100mL	g/L
glucose + fructose	g/100mL	g/L
lead	mg/L	µg/L
reducing sugar	g/100mL	g/L
residual sugar	g/100mL	g/L
titratable acidity	g/100mL	g/L
volatile acidity(acetic)	g/100mL	g/L

Why:

The United States wine industry is competing in an increasingly global environment where reduction of technical barriers to trade is an important consideration. One existing technical barrier is the lack of a common language for expression of wine analytical results. The Wine Institute Technical Committee has adopted consensus units and recommends their adoption by the U.S. industry. See the Technical Brief Adoption of International Units of Measurement in United States Wine Analysis for more information.