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TECHNICAL REVIEW
WINEMAKING
Beaulieu Vineyard
Winery Case Production
1,200,000
BEAULIEU VINEYARD
1960 St. Helena Highway, Rutherford, Calif. 94573
(707) 967-5200 • bvwines.com
DIRECTOR OF winemakING
Jeffrey Stambor
7,000
BV GEORGES DE LATOUR PRIVATE RESERVE
55,000
NAPA COUNTY AVERAGE
44,000
U.S. AVERAGE
0 600,0001,200,000
0
winery ava
Rutherford
YEAR
BONDED
VINEYARD
ACREAGE
1900
150
Winery Average Bottle Price
$11
BEAULIEU VINEYARD
$14
NAPA COUNTY AVERAGE
Beaulieu Vineyard's Georges de Latour Private Reserve, named after the iconic Napa Valley winery's founder, needed to be brought into the modern era. To accomplish this, the
winemaking team developed a modern winery within a winery at the sprawling Rutherford
production facility. The $3.7 million project was finished in time for the 2008 vintage.
BUILDING THE winery
Waters MacRae Architects,
watersmacraearchitects.com
Engineering Summit Engineering,
summit-sr.com
Nomblot
concrete tank
Sorter/
shaker
table
Stainless
steel fermentation
tanks
$100
Tonnellerie Taransaud,
Mel Knox Barrel Broker,
knoxbarrels.com
Nomblot, Artisan Barrels
& Tanks, artisanbarrels.com
Burgstahler Machine Works,
(707) 967-0553
$150
Source: WinesVinesDATA
Jeffrey
Stambor
Paul Mueller Co.,
paulmueller.com
Pump over/ Calmetrics, calmetrics.com
tank control system
Yeast
Zymaflore FX10, F15, Laffort
USA, laffortusa.com
Nutrients
MicroEssentials,
Gusmer Enterprises,
gusmerenterprises.com; DAP
Press
JBL basket press,
Bucher Vaslin North America,
bvnorthamerica.com
Filter
Taransaud oak vat
$50
Le Trieur, P & L Specialties,
pnlspecialties.com
Pump over
pipes/irrigators
Paul Mueller
stainless steel tank
$0
Destemmer Bucher Vaslin Delta E1,
Bucher Vaslin North America,
bvnorthamerica.com
Concrete
fermentation tank
Indoor Environmental Services,
ies-hvac.com
$9
U.S. AVERAGE
makING THE WINE
Oak fermentation
vats
HVAC
100
$125
BV GEORGES DE LATOUR PRIVATE RESERVE
1,100
the challenge
Architect
50
Pall Corp., pall.com/
foodandbev
barrels
Several French coopers, including: Tonnellerie Marchive, Barrel Builders, barrelbuilders.com; Tonnellerie Marsannay, Nadalie
USA, nadalie.com; Tonnellerie Francois
Frères, Mel Knox Barrel Broker, knoxbarrels.com; Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage,
seguinmoreaunapa.com; Gamba USA/Botti
Generazioni, bottigamba.com; OxOline
racks, Tonnellerie Baron, tonnellerie.com
packaging the wine
Yantai Changyu Glass Co.,
en.ytcg.cn
Corks
Rich Xiberta USA Inc.,
xiberta.com
Capsules
Ramondin USA, ramondin.com
Filler/
corker
Bertolaso, Collopack Solutions,
collopack.com
Labeler
34 W in es & V i ne s AP R I L 2 013
Bottles
P.E. machine, P.E. USA,
pe-us.com
