Outfitting a Winery Laboratory

I wrote about Small Winery Investment and Operating Costs taken from a Washington State Extension Bulletin prepared by Le Ann A. Fickle et al. Although this is a very comprehensive and helpful bulletin, I realized that there was no inclusion of a winery laboratory.
For that, I turned to Considerations for Starting a Winery researched by Justin R. Morris and published by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
The publication provided a Table of Equipment that might be a part of a winery laboratory.² I modified the table to show the year that we purchased that equipment.
Equipment to Outfit a Winery Laboratory

Equipment	Year Purchased	Equipment	Year Purchased
Cash/Markham Still		pH Meter	2015
Paper Chromatography Equipment	2017	Ripper Equipment
Ebulliometer		Refractometer	2015
Filtration Equipment	2016	Scales	2015
Forceps and other Manipulators		Spectrophotometer
Heat Source		Test Kit for Residual Sugar	2015
Hydrometers	2020	Titration Equipment	2015
Material Mixing Equipment		Assorted Chemicals and Reagents	2015-now
Microscope		Misc. glassware including flasks, beakers, sample containers, test tubes, racks and pipettes	2015-now

Our first purchase when we started our small laboratory in our basement was a hand held refractometer. This equipment was necessary to test for sugars in the ripening grapes in the vineyard.
We soon realized that we needed a pH meter, titratable acidity and sulfur dioxide titration equipment which we found could be done using a Vinmetrica SC-300 Pro. This equipment is useful for extremely small quantities of wine that needs to be tested and is ideal for the home winemaker. My husband had to get additional burettes, glass beakers and a magnetic stir plate to modify it for our use.
We initially used Glucose test strips to test for the residual sugar. In 2020, once we had enough grape juice and consequently, wine that we could use, we bought a hydrometer which is much better at testing for the presence/absence of sugars.
I am interested in what the other equipment can do so in the upcoming blogpost I will write about them.
References:
1. Le Ann A. Fickle, Raymond J. Folwell, Trent Ball, and Carter Clary, Small Winery Investment and Operating Costs, Washington State Extension Bulletin.
2. Justin R. Morris, Considerations for Starting a Winery, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System, January 2008, Research Report 983.