Here's the winery recently as we were bottling some of our 2008 white wines. As you can see its a decent sized winery but is also quite full. Some of the wine is in cases (we use only 6 bottle cases) - it is labelled and the market destination known. Some of the wine is cleanskin, stacked unlabelled on the Cellastac sheets in the foreground - to which market it will go is unknown so the bottles are unlabelled at this point as information required on the back labels changes depending on where the wine is sold. Either way the wine cannot stay where it is and must be moved to storage as I needed to rack the barrels out into tank shortly after. Most of those tanks have jacketed cooling systems which we need for fermentation control and cold stabilisation.
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There are 139 barrels in the picture, all full of Pinot Noir. On two different types of barrel rack - one good and one less so. In the background there are numerous tanks of varying sizes, from 10000L down to 1250L. So we a small producer, crushing around 100 tonnes of fruit into approximately 6500 cases annually. Our winery is basic in design but extremely functional and as good as you will find in the region. The building is well insulated and all winery operations are done inside, under cover, even fruit receival.
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What you cant see the 5 tonne Diemme press, just to the left of the photo, or our forklift which is one of our essential pieces of equipment. To the right of the photo, our Crusher-Destemmer, Sorting table and Elevator. I will detail all of those as the vintage approaches.
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