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G R A P E G R O W I N G W I N E M A K I N G
Packaging
Design Packaging Innovators,
packaginginnovators.com
Bottles Encore Glass, encoreglass.com
Corks ACI Cork USA, acicorkusa.com
Label printing Collotype Labels, collotype.com
Capsules Ramondin USA, ramondin.com
Building the Winery
Architect/Design Taylor Lombardo Architects,
taylorlombardo.com;
Summit Engineering, summit-sr.com
General contractor Cello & Maudru Construction,
cello-maudru.com
Winery refrigeration/
Plumbing/HVAC
Design: Brummel, Myrick &
Associates, bmaslo.com.
Installed: Knecht's Plumbing &
Heating, kph-inc.com
Process waste
water system
Design: Summit Engineering,
summit-sr.com.
Installed: Integrated Water Services,
integratedwaterservices.com
Water treatment Richetti Complete Water Solutions,
richettiwater.com
Excavation,
site preparation
RW Scott Construction,
scottconstructioncompany.com
Cave Magorian Mine Services,
magmineserv.com
Making the Wine
Crushers/
Destemmer
Armbruster Rotovib,
Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Sorting tables Vaucher Beguet Mistral 60, Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Temperature control
and monitoring
TankNet, Acrolon Technologies,
acrolon.com
Barrels Francois Freres, Mel Knox Barrel Broker, knoxbarrels.com;
Dargaud & Jaegle, Premier Wine Cask, premierwinecask.com;
Damy, Bouchard Cooperages, bouchardcooperages.com;
Tonnellerie Cadus, tonnelleriecadus.com
Fermentation tanks Red wine: Six 480-gallon and eight 1,000-gallon
stainless steel tanks, Criveller California Corp.,
criveller.com; six 450-gallon concrete eggs,
Sonoma Cast Stone, sonomastone.com
White wine: Fifteen 1,100-gallon and seven 3,300-gallon
stainless steel tanks, Criveller California Corp., criveller.com
Concrete eggs: Four 540-gallon eggs,
Sonoma Cast Stone, sonomastone.com;
one 180-gallon egg, Nomblot, wine-tanks.com
Other misc.
cellar supplies
Cellarwise,
cellarwise.net
Press Diemme basket presses, ColloPack Solutions, collopack.com;
Europress, Euro-Machines, euromachinesusa.com
Racking wands The Rack-it-Teer, rackitteer.com
Barrel washing Gamajet (Alfa Laval Group), gamajet.com
Fermentation
control and cap
management
Punch-down unit: RS Randall and Co., rsrandallandco.com
Festoon system: RP Construction, rpconstruction.com.bh
Lab analysis Spectrophotometer: Genesys 10S UV-Vis,
Thermo Scientific, thermoscientific.com
Centrifuge: Raven Environmental Products, ravenep.com
pH-meter: Thermo Scientific Orion 2-Star,
Fisher Scientific, fishersci.com (discontinued)
Distribution Wilson Daniels, wilsondaniels.com
POS Vin65, vin65.com
Presqu'ile Winery
5391 Presqu'ile Drive, Santa Maria, Calif. 93455
presquilewine.com • (805) 937-8110
THE CHALLENgE
The Murphy family converted a former gladiolus flower farm into a modern, gravity-flow winery where a low-
intervention approach is used to craft estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines.
35%
DTC
SALES
Santa
Maria
AVA
2008
yEAR
BONDED
OWNERS
Murphy Family
PRESIDENT
Matt Murphy
WINEMAkER
Dieter Cronje
VINEyARD MANAGER
Jim Solberg,
Maverick Farming
Source: Wines Vines Analytics Source: Wines Vines Analytics
0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000
Presqu'ile Winery
Santa Barbara County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
Presqu'ile Winery
Santa Barbara County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
8,000
44,000
Winery
Case
Production
Winery
Average
Bottle
Price
$0 $10 $20 $30 $40
$8
$9
$26 8,400
80,000
$40