TECHNICAL REVIEW
WINEMAKING
KEN BROWN WINES
Winery Case Production
2,500
Ken Brown Wines
70 Industrial Way, Buellton, Calif. 93427
(805) 688-8561 ��� kenbrownwines.com
ownER & winemaker
Ken Brown
9,000
Santa Barbara County Average
80,000
California Average
44,000
U.S. Average
0 40,000 80,000
winery avas
Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Santa Rita Hills
YEAR
BONDED
2003
DTC SALES
Winery Average Bottle Price
$38
Ken Brown Wines
$28
Santa Barbara County Average
70%
$8
California Average
the challenge
Looking to focus on making limited-production wines under his own label while avoiding
the more laborious aspects of winemaking, Ken Brown moved into the modern customcrush winery Terravant. Brown provided input on the winery design and made his wine
there during the facility���s inaugural crush in 2008.
$9
U.S. Average
$0
$20
$40
Source: WinesVinesDATA
BUILDING THE winery
makING THE WINE
packaging the wine
Bottles
Global Package,
globalpackage.net
Design and Team from Terravant
layout
Converted Pellenc, via RDO Equipment
harvester
Co., rdousedequipment.com
head/
destemmer
Corks
ACI Cork, acicorkusa.com
Capsules
Ramondin USA,
ramondin.com
Press
Label design / WS Packaging Group,
printing
wspackaging.com
Architect
Vladimir Milosevic Architects,
vmilosevic.com
General
contractor
Rarig Construction, rarig.com
Project
manager
Tom Davidson, Lee &
Associates Central Coast,
leecentralcoast.com
Tank design JVNW, jvnw.com
and
fabrication
Receiving
P&L Specialties,
area design pnlspecialties.com
Drains
Zurn Industries, zurn.com
Wastewater Wallace Group, wallacegroup.us
BROWN���S WINEMAKING
Yeast
Standard strains from Lallemand,
lallemandwine.us
Nutrients As needed
Enzymes, Rarely used
additives
Malolactic Choice depends on wine
bacteria chemistry
Fining
agents
Milk, egg white, cassein
barrels
Tonnellerie Remond, New World Winery
Equipment, enotools.com; Seguin Moreau
Napa Cooperage, seguinmoreaunapa.com;
Fran��ois Fr��res, Mel Knox Barrel Broker,
knoxbarrels.com; Tonnellerie Boutes,
boutes.com; Leroi, leroibarrels.com
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Destemmer- Diemme, Collopack Solutions,
crusher
collopack.com
Diemme, Collopack Solutions,
collopack.com
Fermenta- JVNW, jvnw.com
tion/blending tanks
Bottling line
Bertolaso monoblock, Collopack Solutions, collopack.com
Barrel
washing
Tom Beard Co., tombeard.com
Cross-flow
filtration
Pall Corp.,
pall.com/foodandbev
De-alcoholization,
membrane
separation
Memstar, Winesecrets,
winesecrets.com
moving the wine
Case goods
storage
Terravant Santa Maria
warehouse
Tartrate
removal
system
STARS through Winesecrets,
winesecrets.com
Regulatory
compliance
Through Terravant
Shipping
compliance
In-house, utilizing ShipCompliant, shipcompliant.com
Marketing
and PR
Word of mouth
Distribution
Wine Warehouse,
winewarehouse.com
Fulfillment
Wineshipping,
wineshipping.com
Website
design
Freerun Technologies,
freeruntech.com
Tasting room
By appointment; several
weekend open houses
annually
VA Removal Mobile service from
Winesecrets, winesecrets.com
Laboratory
equipment
Anton Paar USA acolyzer,
anton-paar.com; Vinotrate
pH titrator, Sirius Analytical,
sirius-analytical.com; ChemWell
enzymatic analysis, Unitech
Scientific, unitechscientific.com;
Foss flow injection analysis,
Foss North America, foss.us
Special events Wine club events, private
parties
