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TECHNICAL REVIEW WINEMAKING Rhys Vineyards Winery Case Production Owner Kevin Harvey 11715 Skyline Blvd., Los Gatos, Calif. (650) 419-2050 • rhysvineyards.com Winemaker Jeff Brinkman Vineyard Manager Javier Meza 5,000 Rhys Vineyards 3,400 Santa Cruz County Average 80,000 California Average 44,000 U.S. Average 0 40,000 80,000 Winery AVA Santa Cruz Mountains Winery Average Bottle Price $59 Rhys Vineyards YEAR BONDED 2010 DTC SALES 99% vineyard acreage 72 $28 Santa Cruz County Average $8 California Average the challenge $9 U.S. Average $0 $30 $60 Source: WinesVinesDATA General contractor Nordby Construction & Wine Caves, nordby.net Electrical Cimino Electric, ciminoelectric.com Septic Able Engineering Service, ableserve.com Architect Peterson Architects, petersonarch.com Steel and concrete Williams Associates Engineering, williamsae.com HVAC Risse Mechanical, (408) 437-1847 Plumbing Risse Mechanical Water wells, reverse osmosis Simms Plumbing, (650) 879-0739; De Anza Water, deanzawater.com Stainless trench drains ACO Polymer Products, acousa.com Dyed concrete floors North Coast Concrete, northcoastconcreteinc.com Sand-finished acrylic sprayed walls Luke Construction, lukeconstruction.com Weather station Ranch Systems, ranchsystems.com mcm an us photo graphy BUILDING THE WINERY Packaging the Wine Bottling Gai 1205 Monoblock, AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz Labeler Demptos Glass, demptos.com Closures Single-origin 2-inch USS cork, Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com Labels PS eggshell felt paper, Tapp Label Technologies, tapptech.com Capsules Black 120micron 62mmx30mm, Rivercap USA, corksupply.com Making the wine Sorting table, inclined conveyor P&L Specialties, pnlspecialties.com Crusher Armbruster Rotovib 10, Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com Presses 2.25-ton basket press from Carlsen & Associates, carlsenassociates.com; Willmes Sigma 4 from Scott Laboratories Fermentors Ten 1-ton oak upright, Tonnellerie Rousseau, tonnellerie-rosseau.com; and 120 1-ton stainless steel tanks Tanks Two stainless pressurizable tanks at 2,100 gallons; one each at 240 gallons, 500 gallons, 750 gallons and 1,100 gallons; large tanks by Idiaz Services, idiazservices.com; smaller tanks by Product Lines Unlimited, (707) 485-9399 Racking wands Bulldog Pup, bulldogmfg.com Barrels Francois Freres four-year air-dried, MT+ VTG 228-liter Burgundy shape, Francois Freres, Mel Knox Barrel Broker, knoxbarrels.com Barrel rack Stainless steel two-barrel 4-inch and 7-inch racks, Western Square Industries, westernsquare.com Yeasts native Appellation(s) Anderson Valley, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz Mountains Vine rootstock 420A, Riparia Bloire / 101-14, 309C GAI 6020 PS labeler, AWS/Prospero Bottles 52 W IN E S & V I NE S M AY 2 01 3 photos by kelly Winemaker Jeff Brinkman helped guide the development of Rhys Vineyards' winery from an operation in owner Kevin Harvey's garage to a warehouse to, finally, an elaborate, 30,000-square-foot winery situated in a three-tunnel cave.

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