CO VER S T OR Y TANTALUS VINEYARDS
Varietals Acreage
Trellis System
TECHNICAL REVIEW 1670 Dehart Road, Kelowna, B.C., V1W 4N6, Canada • (250) 764-0078 • tantalus.ca
Riesling, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier 36 under vine; 100% estate vineyards VSP
Year Founded: 2005 • Winery AVA: Okanagan Valley • Owner: Eric Savics • Winemaker: David Paterson • Vineyard Manager: Warwick Shaw Tantalus Vineyards vs. Other Wineries Bottle Price Case Production
Vine Rootstock Riesling is all 21B, on own roots or 3309 or SO4
Pinot Noir is a mixture of 667,777,115 and 91 on various rootstocks including 3309 and 101-14 Chardonnay is Oppenheim, 76 and 95 on 3309
Notable Wines DtC Sales
Tasting Room
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Old Vine Riesling 40%
June 1-Oct. 10: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Oct. 11-May 31: noon-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday
Special Events Winemaker dinners, private and corporate events. Com- mercial kitchen and banquet facility available on-site.
What Contractors Details & Supplier
General Contractor: JDS Energy and Mining Inc., jdsmining.ca
Plumbing: Marquardt Mechanical, marquardtmechanical.com
Electrical: Oakdown Electrical
Wastewater Treatment: Enviro-Stew- ards, enviro-stewards.com; H2flow, h2flow.com
BioCube for wastewater
Architect & Engineers
Engineers
Steel and Concrete
HVAC / Refrigeration
Incoming Water Quality: Ecowater 2000, ecowater.ca
MQN Architects, mqnarchitects.com; Axxent Engi- neering, axxentengineering.com
Stantec, stantec.com
JDS Energy and Min- ing Inc., jdsmining.ca
HVAC: Marquart Me- chanical, marquardt- mechanical.com; Appolo Projects; Care Systems Services Ltd., caresystems.ca
Refrigeration: Train
Flooring & Wall Coating
What Barrels
Barrel Racks What Heat exchange system Kingspan through JDS, kingspan.com Details & Supplier
Various coopers, all French oak. Top three: Ton- nellerie Billon, tonnellerie-billon.com; Tonnellerie Cadus, tonnelleriecadus.com; Tonnellerie Rousseau, tonnellerie-rousseau.com
Zellars Details & Supplier DtC Shipments DHL, dhl.com
Wine Shipping DHL, dhl.com; VanKam Freightways Ltd., vankam. com
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What Bottles
Closures Labels
Details & Supplier
Saverglass Altus Flute, saverglass.com; Saint Gobain Burgund, verallia.com
Diam, g3enterprises.com; Stelvin, stelvin.com Metro Label Pacific Ltd., metrolabelgroup.com
Winery Mgt. Software
Marketing Software
Banking
Weather- monitoring software
Pumps
Bottling Line Yeasts
What
Vineyard Mgt. Software
Tanks What
Crushers / Destemmers
Presses Fermentors Tantalus vineyards Details & Supplier Bucher Vaslin Delta E1, bvnorthamerica.com Sutter EPC35
Crown wine tanks, six used as open tank fermen- tors, approx. 4-ton capacity
Ripley Stainless tanks for fermenting Riesling, 10 ranging in size from approx. 150 to 1,500 gallons, ripleystainless. com
Ripley Stainless 8,000-gallon blending tank, ripleystainless.com
Tanks Waukesha 30, carlsenassociates.com Mobile line: Artus Bottling Ltd., artusbottling.com
Various yeasts: Lallemand, lallemandwine.us; Laf- fort, laffort.com/en/laffort-usa
Details & Supplier
Weather Monitoring: Vantage Pro 2, Davis Instruments, davisnet. com
AMS: Vinwizard, vin- wizard.com; Solutions For You, Inc.
Okanac Business Machines, okanac.ca; Onlineor- derdesk, onlineorderdesk.com; Facebook; Twitter
TD Canada Trust, tdcanadatrust.com
Tantalus Vineyards
$ $ $ $25
British Columbia $22 Canada U.S.
$20 $27
4,500 9,000
23,000 43,000
Bottle prices averaged across categories, based on one price per winery. Source: WinesVinesDATA
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IT Solutions & Finance
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