WINEMAKING TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT
50 WINES&VINES September 2015
Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services
499 Moore Lane, Healdsburg, Calif., 4001 Highway 128, Geyserville, Calif. • (707) 433-8400 • rackandriddle.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
exploring new trends and techniques being used in the industry. If you think your winery would be a
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CUSTOM CRUSH
70%
YEAR BONDED
2007
AVA
Sonoma County
OWNERS
Rebecca Faust
and Bruce Lindquist
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF WINEMAKING
Penny
Gadd-Coster
GENERAL MANAGER
Mark Garaventa
Source: Wines Vines Analytics Source: Wines Vines Analytics
WINERY CASE PRODUCTION
0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200
Thousands
Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services
Sonoma County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
87,000
47,000
36,000
WINERY AVERAGE BOTTLE PRICE
$0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25 $30
Breathless Wines
Sonoma County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
$29
$12
$12
WINERY SERVICES
Laboratory
services
In-house
Regulatory
compliance
DH Wine Compliance,
dhwinecompliance.com
Web sales/
POS/inventory
software
Nexternal, nexternal.com;
Vin65, vin65.com;
Elavon, elavon.com;
Microworks Technologies, winesoftware.com
Email marketing Constant Contact, constantcontact.com
Winemaking
software
VINx2 Winery Software, vinx2.com
BUILDING THE WINERY
Architect (Healdsburg facility) O'Malley Wilson & Westphal, (707) 636-0828
General contractor Eddinger Enterprises, eddingers.com
Financing Exchange Bank, exchangebank.com
Conveyor Custom model, 4D Machine Co., 4dmachine.com
Destemmer-
crusher
Bucher Vaslin Delta D4, ColloPack Solutions,
collopack.com
Yeasts Selected by client
Pumps Six Waukesha 130 (must pump, wine transfer, pump
overs, tank cleaning); one Waukesha 220 (must pump);
three Waukesha 2085/15 (transfer pumps); two Wauke-
sha 2065/5 (transfer pump, pump overs); one Yamada
NDP-15 wine pump (topping); three Yamada NDP-50
(filling, lees pumping), Carlsen & Associates,
carlsenassociates.com
Press Bucher Vaslin 320 for white and sparkling wines, two
Diemme AR150F presses, two Bucher Xpert 320ICS
presses, ColloPack Solutions
Fermentation
tanks
Tanks ranging in size from 500 gallons to 50,000 gal-
lons, Santa Rosa Stainless Steel, srss.com;
Quality Stainless Tanks, qualitystainless.com
Barrels Supplied by client
Riddling
machine
Nutrend Enterprises, nutrenddesign.com
Dosing
machine
TDD Grilliat Machines,
tdd-grilliat.com/home_uk/index.html
Barrel washing Two-barrel washer, Tom Beard Co., tombeard.com
Barrel racking Bulldog Pup, Bulldog Manufacturing,
bulldogmfg.com
Filtration Oenoflow Crossflow Microfiltration System,
Pall Corp., pall.com/foodandbev
Bottling line Two GAI Monoblocks: one for still wines, one for tirage,
ColloPack Solutions
MAKING THE WINE
$20
1,200,000
PACKAGING
Bottles Saverglass, saverglass.com
Corks Amorim Cork America for sparkling, amorimca.com,
or supplied by client
Label design
and printing
Supplied by client
Capsules Maverick Enterprises, maverickcaps.com
