Lapsley, James T.Mueller, Rolf A. E.Ruckelshausen, ArnoSchwarz, Hans-PeterTheuvsen, Brigitte2017-06-302017-06-302015978-3-88579-632-9The Department of Viticulture and Enology of University of California at Davis has recently been endowed with a new training and research (T\&R) winery. The heart of the winery is the fermentation room which houses close to 170 fermentation tanks of various sizes. The high-tech fermentation tanks raise fermentation control to a new level. Each is equipped with digital sensors that were purpose-designed by a team of engineers led by a distinguished inventor and CEO of a semiconductor producing firm who also is a wine enthusiast. The sensors on a chip closely monitor fermentation and wirelessly transmit measurement data, e.g. data on Brix, to the winery's computers and into the cloud. In this paper we brieflyenText/Conference Paper1617-5468