Afternoon Brief: Seaport Strike Could Spike NYC Wine Prices, Leave Produce Rotting Offshore, Experts Warn

A looming longshoremen's strike at seaports across the East Coast is slated to hammer New York City's supply chains -- and experts said the labor action could lead to a spike in wine prices, in addition to hundreds of tons of fruit going bad on ships stuck outside the harbor with no place to dock...

Saviah Cellars in Walla Walla, WA uses Pulsair's mixing equipment to mix 1-2 ton red wine fermentation tanks. The wine cap air mixing process works by sequentially pulsing in large bursts of compressed air into the juice below the floating grape cap. The rising bubbles push and pull the juice up over the top of the cap to complete homogenize and mix the cap. Wine punch-downs are used alongside Pulsair during fermentation to create and craft the best wines possible. This large bubble mixing process saves time and help enhance and improve the infusion of phenolics, tannins, flavors and color yielding a more healthy and active ferment.

  All-New Pulsair Systems TM-1501W Wine Kit.   Pulsair officially unveils a new, inexpensive, portable air mixing system, the TM-1501W Wine Kit, for winemakers who ferment smaller grape lots in barrels, macrobins and 1-3 ton fermentation tanks to improve the vinification process.   Featuring Pulsair's 35-year proven and tested air mixing process for cap management, winemakers can now use Pulsair in smaller fermentation tanks to enhance the infusions of phenolics, tannins and color to improve aromatics, complex structure and reduce reductive and stuck ferments.   A lightweight, portable stainless steel probe is inserted in through the buoyant cap to sequentially release the timed pulses of compressed air or gas into the ferment.  The speed and intensity of the modulated injection of air pulses can be controlled on the all-pneumatic, air driven Pulsair TM-1501W Mixer.  Once released under the cap, the rising compressed air bubbles push the juice up into and over the top of the c

Saviah Cellars in Walla Walla, Washington using portable Pulsair TM-1501W mixer for mixing grape cap skins and juice during fermentation in 1-2 ton macrobin fermentation tanks. This air mixing process or 'reverse punch-down' process may be used exclusively or along with traditional punch-down to quickly and safely manage caps during primary fermentation. The wine quality is enhanced by uniformly and gently mixing the cap, reducing the reduction by releasing non-fruit aromatic esters and completely breaking up the cap into individual berries allowing all the juice to come into contact with yeast bodies.