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WINEMAKING ciate winemaker; Trevor Chlanda, assistant winemaker, and Patrick Bernard, enologist— use AMS winery management software. Floor and wall coatings The floors and walls in the new winery got special attention. ABT trench drains 4 inches and 12 inches wide have removable grates to allow for easy cleaning as well as providing hose chases across heavy traffic areas. Cabral was interested in using non- skid floors, having seen them at the newish Ferrari Carano mountain winery in nearby Alexander Valley. Cabral and his team wanted something similar for Williams Selyem's bottling area, knowing the non- skid polyurethane is acid resistant and high temperature resistant, allowing workers to clean it with 190ºF water, which would break down regular concrete. The coating is ideal for safety and long- term wear, but it was relatively expensive at $12 or more per square foot. Safety and low-maintenance won out, and the coating was specified for nearly the entire winemaking and bottling area. Phoenix Coating installed it on the floors and also applied a two-part polyurea wall coating containing mildewcide and bactericide. Cabral reflected on how the maintenance Murphy's Law: Every client is special. Every project is one-of-a-kind. high-density vertical storage racks (above) store library wines. Non-skid floors are acid and temperature resistant as well as strong enough to hold dome-bottomed "beer" tanks. of the new facility was high on his priority list while planning. "A lot of my thinking on supplies was not about price," he said. Considerable planning, effort and ex- pense went into the bottling line. Williams Selyem used to keep a monobloc bottling line in storage and had to move it into place at the old winery by crane during bottling season. Wines were hand-labeled and foiled by a crew of four women who worked seven months on labeling and two months on grape-sorting during crush. The new winery houses a complete bottling line operating under one roof and automates everything. The cost of bottling has gone down from approximately $2.88 per case to 91 cents per case, Cabral says, while shrinking the bottling crew as a whole from 12 people to six. The new bottling line includes the ex- isting GAI monobloc from AWS Prospero. The wines go straight from a pressurized assembly tank to the automatic filler corker. "In my 13 years here we've never had to filter a Pinot Noir," says Cabral. The capsuler is by Robino & Calan- drino. The labeler by Cavagnino & Gatti applies pressure-sensitive labels printed by Accent that can be switched over to glued labels if needed. Collopak supplied the JIM MURPHY and ASSOCIATES advocates. builders. catalysts. Builders of Williams Selyem Winery's new home. Visit our website to learn more about us. www.j-m-a.com 464 Kenwood Court, Suite B • Santa Rosa, California 95407 License #505531 • 707.576.7337 JMA 1/2 page horiz B-W ad.indd 1 Wines & Vines JUne 2011 43 5/9/11 10:08 AM JIM GORDON