winemaking Technical spoTlighT
74 Wines&Vines January 2015
oak Farm Vineyards
23627 N. DeVries Road, Lodi, Calif. 95242 • (209) 365-6566 • oakfarmvineyards.com
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opened or undergone major renovations and improvements. Wines & Vines seeks to report how
facility design and winemaking equipment is used to achieve a particular winemaking style while also
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Vineyard acreage
60
year Bonded
2009
dTc sales
90%
aVa
Lodi
owners
Panella family
Managing parTner
Dan Panella
wineMaker
Chad Joseph
Vineyard Manager
Jon wetmore,
Round Valley
Ranches
Winery ServiceS
Laboratory services eTs laboratories, etslabs.com;
lodi winery laboratories, lodiwinelabs.com
Case goods storage Mccormack williamson winery, mwwinery.com
marketing and PR wemarketwine, wemarketwine.com
POS Microworks wine software, winesoftware.com
DtC/wine shipments elite wine shipping, elitewineshipping.com
Financing/bank f&M Bank, fmbonline.com
Building the Winery
general contractor/
architect
nickell construction, (209) 745-1830
Landscape design Terrain designs, terraindesignstyle.com
Catwalks sonnikson & stordahl construction, sonstor.com
metal fabrication liberty industrial, kosts.com/liberty_industrial
Concrete and drains Jsg concrete, (209) 745-5903
epoxy flooring, walls cornerstone flooring, cornerstoneflooring.com
HVaC Blackwell heating and air, lodiheatandair.com
Plumbing/instant
hot water
seco plumbing, (209) 333-1777
Rollup doors robbins' garage doors, robbinsgaragedoors.
com; liftmaster, liftmaster.com
Making the Wine
Vibrating sorting table Burgstahler Machine works, (707) 967-0553
Press hopper Burgstahler Machine works
Crusher/destemmer Diemme kappa 15, diemme enologia,
diemme-enologia.com
must pump Francesca F05, collopack solutions,
collopack.com
Other pumps waukesha 130, carlsen & associates,
carlsenassociates.com
Tanks albrigi, albrigi.it
Pump-over cart The Belli corp. (dba westec Tank & equipment),
westectank.com
Barrels Tonnellerie radoux Usa, radouxcooperage.com
Barrel washer aaquaBlaster LT, aaquaTools, aaquatools.com
Barrel racks western square industries, westernsquare.com
Tank washer Troll Ball, cloud sellers, cloudinc.com
Press Diemme Tecnova 40, diemme enologia
Bin dumper cascade corp., cascorp.com
Pressure washer kew Poseidon 7-67, aaquaTools
Steam generator aaquaSteam, aaquaTools
Forklift caterpillar, cat-lift.com
Yeast/mL bacteria Lallemand, scott laboratories
Packaging
Bottles saxco international, saxco.com
Corks scott laboratories, scottlab.com
Label design 6 west design, (209) 367-3703
Label printing Mpi label systems, mpilabels.com
Capsules ramondin Usa, ramondin.es/en/
Winery caSe Production Winery average Bottle Price
Source: wines Vines analytics Source: wines Vines analytics
$0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25
0 400,000 800,000 1,200,000
Oak Farm Vineyards
San Joaquin County average
California average
U.S. average
Oak Farm Vineyards
San Joaquin County average
California average
U.S. average
$24
87,000
47,000
1.1 million
5,000
$11.50
$6
$12
