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In Need of Equipment for Harvest?
We have a great stock of equipment. Crown Cappers, Bottle Fillers, Pumps, Cooling Plates and much more. Get ready for harvest now. Visit us online, give us a call or come into the store!
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The Best (and Worst) Time to Buy Harvest Equipment
As we write this it's early August in Sonoma County, and already the calls are coming in: “My grapes are coming soon. I need equipment now”. Although harvest comes at the same time every year, give or take a few weeks, it still seems to catch people off guard. We get it: you're busy with all the other parts of running a winery. We'd like to help by offering our tips on when to buy equipment if you want the best deals, and best delivery times. Much of the world's best winemaking equipment is made in Europe. No slight intended to the patriotic, but they've been making wine in Europe far longer than we have here in the USA. Consequently, when it comes to presses, destemmers, and must pumps, a lot of the equipment we use in American wineries has to journey across the Atlantic the same way the pilgrims did: by ship. Thankfully, the advent of container freight shipping has made things much simpler and much faster — but not that much faster. We still fig
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