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WINERY & VINEYARD EQUIPMENT 108 WINES&VINES January 2016 MILANI ESTASI The belt-fed Estasi machine by Milani "brushes" berries off stems by coupling the forward motion of the belt with a "trans- verse oscillating screen." The machine is designed to be gentle to preserve as many whole berries as possible. The machine also features rubber rollers to be used as an optional crusher. Distributed by Criveller Group. Starting price: $30,000. criveller.com PELLENC The Pellenc Selectiv' winery system uses three patented mechanisms for destemming and sorting. Grapes first pass through a linear, high-frequency destemmer, in which clusters are pulled between vibratory destemming modules along a grid conveyor that allows whole berries to fall through to a roll- ing sorter table. The rollers let berries fall into a collection auger, while any remaining MOG is carried to a separate channel. Pellenc offers three models that have throughputs of between 4 and 20 tons per hour on hand-harvested clusters. Starting price: $49,450. pellenc.com SOCMA Featuring a small footprint that allows it to easily be incor- porated into a crush pad, the Cube by SOCMA employs a ver- tical destemming process that uses flexible, vibrating "fingers" that remove grapes as they fall through a hopper. The de- stemmed grapes then move along a vibratory table that removes stems, raisins and other MOG before reaching SOCMA's "Viniclean" sorting rollers, which separate the final stream of sorted berries from MOG. Distributed through Valley Pipe & Supply. Contact supplier for pricing. valleypipe.com SOCMA Pellenc Milani Estasi