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winemaking Technical spoTlighT 42 Wines&Vines February 2015 B Cellars 701 Oakville Cross Road, Oakville, Calif. 94562 • (707) 709-8787 • bcellars.com The Technical Spotlight is a regular feature highlighting wineries in North America that have recently 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 exploring new trends and techniques being used in the industry. If you think your winery would be a good candidate for the feature, contact us at edit@winesandvines.com. Vineyard acreage 6 (plus 40 under contract) aVa Oakville year bonded 2003 dTc sales 70% co-FoUnders Duffy Keys and Jim Borsack direcTor oF operaTions Jonathan Ruppert Winemaker Kirk Venge associaTe Winemaker Derek Taylor Vineyard manager Vinescape Precision Winegrowing Winery ServiceS Laboratory services eTs laboratories, etslabs.com Case goods storage On-site; Western Wine carriers, westerncarriers.com Regulatory compliance In-house; compli, compli-beverage.com Marketing and PR robert goodloe & associates and glodow nead communications, glodownead.com Website design robert goodloe & associates POS software Vin65, vin65.com Building the Winery Architect Hart Howerton, harthowerton.com Civil engineer riechers spence and associates, rsacivil.com General contractor Facility development corp., fdc-corp.com Metal fabrication black iron, Healdsburg, (707) 473-9403; iron dog Fabrication, irondogfab.com Winery refrigeration contractor Trimyc mechanical, trimyc.com Interior design Hart Howerton HVAC roy mechanical services, (707) 523-1668 Making the Wine Conveyor(s) Grapes to destemmer: Vaucher-Beguet Model ECO 300/4000 Elevator Conveyor, scott laboratories; destemmed whole berries to tank: Vaucher-Beguet Model ECO 300/6000 Elevator Conveyor, scott laboratories, scottlab.com Hopper Defranceschi Vibrating Grape Distribution Table, Valley pipe & supply, valleypipe.com Sorting table Defranceschi Protec X-Tri 150 Optical Sorter, Valley pipe & supply Destemmer Armbruster ROTOVIB, scott laboratories Tanks Three 960-gallon, five 1,750-gallon, one 3,100-gallon and one 1,540-gallon open-top tanks, criveller, criveller.com; Nobmlot concrete tanks and egg: two 60-hectoliter concrete cubique tronconique tanks, one 25-hectoliter concrete egg, artisan barrels, artisanbarrels.com Press Enoveneta 26-hectoliter, enoveneta, enoveneta.it Barrel washing AaquaBlaster LT, aaquatools, aaquatools.com Barrels Francois Freres, Tonnellerie Taransaud, mel knox barrel broker, knoxbarrels.com; alain Fouquet French cooperage, alainfouquet.com; gamba Usa/botti generazioni, bottigamba.com; nadalie Usa, nadalie.com; Damy, bouchard cooperages, bouchardcooperages.com; Tonnellerie boutes, boutes.com; Tonnellerie sylvain, tonnellerie-sylvain.fr; seguin moreau napa cooperage, seguinmoreaunapa.com DTC shipping In-house and Wine direct, winedirect.com Financing/bank silicon Valley bank, svb.com Packaging Bottles encore glass, encoreglass.com Corks portocork america, portocork.com Label design robert goodloe and associates, rgacommunications.com Label printing/ silkscreen/etching bergin glass impressions, berginglass.com Capsules ramondin Usa, ramondin.com Bottling ryan mobile bottling, ryanmobilebottling.com Winery caSe Production Winery average Bottle Price Source: Wines Vines Analytics Source: Wines Vines Analytics 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 B Cellars Napa County Average California Average U.S. Average 87,000 47,000 48,000 8,000 $0 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $60 B Cellars Napa County Average California Average U.S. Average $57 $11.50 $18 $12