House of Gilliard The tradition of the House of Gilliard in Switzerland goes back to the 19th Century, with the today famous Dôle des Monts wine. The winery handles the whole wine making process in-house, from growing the grapes to bottling. Achieving wine of the highest quality requires a command of the whole production process. Gilliard’s wine masters rely on Atlas Copco to help them with this task. The House of Gilliard has equipped its production site with two Variable Speed Drive (VSD) compressors and a nitrogen generator. Thanks to this installation, the wine house has on-site nitrogen and does no longer need to purchase nitrogen in cylinders. The advantages are obvious: the Gilliard house saves time, money and energy thanks to its on-site nitrogen. Nitrogen, the hidden ingredient Cultivating grapes, harvesting and wine making: the delicate process of producing wine always ends in bottling, which requires compressed air and nitrogen. The compressed air powers vario

A leading automation and bottling technologies group for the food and beverage industry creates a new High-Speed Beverage Division with a combined turnover of €280 million Omnia Technologies, a leading platform for automation and bottling technologies for the spirits, wine, beverage, dairy and pharma industries, launches a new high-speed beverage division focused on bottling-labelling-packaging technologies through the acquisitions of ACMI, SACMI Beverage and SACMI Labelling. Headquartered in Fornovo di Taro (Parma, Italy), ACMI is a global leading designer and producer of complete packaging and bottling lines, mostly for the food and beverage industry, where it is often the primary contractor and line integrator. Founded in 1984, the company has five production facilities across Northern Italy and four commercial branches in Mexico, Poland, the UK and the USA. Its product portfolio includes palletisers and depalletisers, cartoning machines, wrappers, han

How have natural corks stayed on top of the wine world? Antonio Amorim’s efforts to make the cork business more innovative and sustainable have a lot to do with it Antonio Amorim has seen the closure industry change dramatically during his two decades at the helm of his family's 150-year-old cork business. (Courtesy of Amorim Cork) For centuries, cork has been the primary method of closing wine bottles. Then in the late 20th century came cheaper stoppers and—though not without some controversy—the value end of the market was suddenly awash in bottles topped with colorful plastic “corks” or metal screwcaps. That would have been alarming enough for a family cork business founded in 1870. But at the same time, high-end wineries were facing a problem with TCA taint, which could make wines smell and taste like musty cardboard or—in a way even worse for the producers—muted and boring, without being obviously flawed. The problem was largely blam

Looking for the ideal solutions for your winery? Come visit our team at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium booth H2, Jan. 25-26, 2023. Our dedication to quality products and service will guarantee you will get the best equipment at the best price to fit perfectly with your winery. Criveller offers the following products: Custom Sized and Designed Stainless Steel Tanks Pneumatic and Hydraulic Presses Destemmer Crushers Elevators and Hoppers Sorting Systems Multiples styles of pumps DE Filters Filtration Sparkling Wine Equipment Complete Bottling Solutions Wax Sealing Machines Criveller Group was founded in 1979 with an emphasis on providing innovative processing and packaging solutions to the wine regions of North America. By forging alliances with leading European equipment manufacturers, Criveller became recognized not only for high-quality equipment, but also for our technical expertise, design services and superior customer service.

DELLA TOFFOLA, has launched a new intelligent wine press, adding to their already impressive complement of award-winning winery equipment. “This technology combines all the benefits of our existing central membrane press, and utilizes artificial intelligence (AI), to create an even more efficient, time-saving, gentle fully automatic press.” notes Ken Kosmicki, Sales Manager for DELLA TOFFOLA USA. “The technology turns our fast-acting central membrane press into an intelligent press, using a sophisticated set of analytics, based on the settings your winemaker programs into it,” he adds. “The AI programming takes the guesswork out of the first run quality and allows your staff to focus on other tasks.” DELLA TOFFOLA has long been known for their unique central membrane press which covers 360° of the pressing area, unlike the lateral membrane design of their competitors. The press is faster and uses less pressure thus ensuri

Ganau Launches EPIQ Corks with threshold of ≤0.5 ng/L TCA backed by peer-reviewed science Ganau reveals EPIQ, a natural cork with threshold of ≤0.5 ng/L 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole (TCA) that uses a scientifically verified technology with a sensitivity rate at least five times higher than other methods. The technology -- Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer -- screens every individual cork within three seconds and it has been verified by the Analytical Chemistry (1), a peer-reviewed publication of the American Chemistry Society. In 2018, Ganau partnered with Switzerland-based Tofwerk, a global leader in time-of-flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometry, to adopt the VOCUS® technology, a cutting-edge chemical ionization combined with high resolution time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. Versions of this instrument are successfully used by NASA and CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research). In a first-of-its-kind breakthrough, VOCUS® shows a linear correlation with the sta

Viticulture has always been an unpredictable business, but the challenges facing our industry have steadily increased over the last few years. As growers strive to remain competitive in the face of these rising headwinds, Casa Cristal Nursery is committed to helping them succeed. Their long-term strategy combines a commitment to building innovation into all phases of their process coupled with dedication to quality and communication. “We are committed to innovation,” says Justin Jackson, General Manager. “We’re continually evaluating our product and our process and looking for ways to improve. For example, we’ve switched over entirely to Elle Pots for our potted vines production. At the nursery level this has improved efficiency. At the vineyard level clients are reporting increased productivity at planting and reduced transplant shock, plus they don’t miss picking up and disposing of plastic pots. We will continue investing in new tech and infra

Equipment for Wine Quality When Scott Laboratories, the industry’s leading supplier for the North American wine community for over 80 years, began working with German manufacturer Willmes in 1982, it was not long before the company principals realized the sheer ingenuity and technological advancements behind the Willmes press. In the European agricultural arena since 1918, Willmes’ engineers invented the first pneumatic grape press in 1951 and the first tank press in 1974, creating an industry standard as the only field specialists in pressing technology. A title they’ve now held for over 100 years. MERLIN Plus+SIGMA Now, after a relationship that has lasted more than 35 years and three generations, Scott Laboratories and Willmes can proudly proclaim to be supplying the wine industry with the most innovative, efficient, durable, state of the art presses available on the market today. “The success of our presses comes from responding to five basic nee

Excess crush space available for this 2020 Harvest! Contact us via email: robert@grandcrucustomcrush.com to see how we can help with your production needs.  Equipment Lineup Crush Pad and Sorting system from Burgstahler Machine Works RotoVibe Destemmer with internal berry-sorting technology 42Hl & 60 Hl Bladder presses from Euro Machines Carlsen & Associates Basket Press Sixty six Stainless Steel tanks from AAA-Metal Fabrication. for ferments from 1 ton up Four temperature and humidity controlled barrel rooms. Chilled & Hot Glycol  InnoVint winery management platform TankNET temperature control system