Update on the Forston Mini GC

We were able to talk with Jill and Jeanine from Forston Labs at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium. We asked them about the Forston Mini GC and they gave us a full disclosure. The said that although they tried to get reproducible ethanol readings from the mini GC, sadly, it was not as reliable as they thought it would be. Jill said that the Forston Mini GC is a good tool for classroom usage, but not for reproducible and reliable measurements of wine ethanol.
Instead, they were promoting a new product called the SRI 310C which measures 12" x 14" x 12". That is the top of the GC under Jill's hand in the following photo:

The GC uses a Restek MXT 1301 column and an example of the peaks it can resolve is shown in the following photo:

Jill mentioned the SRI 310C costs approximately $9000.00 and onsight training by someone from SRI or Forston Labs will be provided.