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WINEMAKING TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT 50 WINES&VINES August 2018 Final blends are filtered into the Westec utility tank to homogenize, then put back into barrel to settle for three to four months before bottling. All red wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined using a mobile bottling service. The winemaking team is currently in transition between bottling companies. "Since our first wines back in 2012, this'll be our fourth or fifth bottler. Quality bottlers are hard to find," Lisa Mazzoni said. "And it's hard to find someone to want to work with us," Giacomelli added. "We're such a small production facility, most bottlers want to work with wineries doing 30,000 cases not 3." Barrel-fermented white wines Because the 3 acres planted to Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc won't bear fruit for a few more years, the Mazzonis purchase white grapes. "It's varied over the years, but this will be our third harvest getting Sauvignon Blanc from the Redwood Ranch in Alexander Valley," Lisa Mazzoni said. "We'll also be getting Char- donnay from them this year for the first time." White grapes are harvested by hand, then fed directly into the winery's new Puleo 24-hec- toliter membrane press. After, the juice goes into the utility tank to allow any extremely heavy lees to settle. Chardonnay is racked off info@simei.it / simei.it INTERNATIONAL ENOLOGICAL AND BOTTLING EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION 19 th -22 nd November 2019 Fiera Milano (Rho) - Italy 28 th EDITION LEADER IN WINE & BEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZED BY SUPPORTED BY Zialena experiments with various toast levels in its barrel aging program.