WINEMAKING AMPELOS CELLARS
OWNERS & WINEMAKERS Peter and Rebecca Work
1633 W. Central Ave., Lompoc, Calif. • (805) 736-9957 • ampeloscellars.com
YEAR BONDED 2003
VINEYARD ACREAGE 25
DTC SALES 40%
DRAGONETTE CELLARS 1633 W. Central Ave., Lompoc, Calif. • (805) 737-0200 • dragonettecellars.com OWNERS & WINEMAKERS
John Dragonette, Steve Dragonette and Brandon Sparks-Gillis
YEAR BONDED 2004
DTC SALES 70%
THE CHALLENGE Two low-intervention wineries focused on Pinot Noir and Rhone varietal wines have partnered up in a converted industrial location down the road from the sewage treatment plant in Lompoc, Calif. Peter and Rebecca Work, the owners of Ampelos, first teamed with Ken Brown to convert "a shell" of a building into a modern winemaking cellar. Ampelos now shares the space with Dragonette, operating the shared winemaking area under an alternating proprietor agreement.
SHARED WINEMAKING
EQUIPMENT Destemmer- crusher
Press
Diemme, Collopack Solutions, collopack.com
Europress, Euro-Machines, euromachinesusa.com
Fermentors ProBin 44-s, MacroBins, Macro Plastics, macroplastics.com
Tanks
TranStore, Custom Metalcraft, custom-metalcraft.com; larger tanks from Santa Rosa Stainless Steel, srss.com
Filtration Forklift Ozone
Barrel washing
Lab
Electrotec Service Co., electrotecservice.com
Nissan Forklift Corp., nissanforklift.com
McClain Ozone, mcclainozone.com
Hotsy pressure washer, hotsy. com; American Water Works, americanwaterworks.net; Gamajet, gamajet.com
analysis Bottling
Vanalytics, winolab.com; Enar- tis Vinquiry Santa Maria, (805) 922-1571, enartisvinquiry.com
Castoro Bottling Co., castorobottling.com
44 WINES & VINES OCTOBER 2012 AMPELOS
Winery Average Bottle Price $35
AMPELOS DRAGONETTE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY AVERAGE CALIFORNIA AVERAGE U.S. AVERAGE
$45 $26 $8 $9
$0 $20 $40 $60 Source: WinesVinesDATA
TECHNICAL REVIEW Winery Case Production 3,500
AMPELOS DRAGONETTE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY AVERAGE CALIFORNIA AVERAGE U.S. AVERAGE
3,200 9,000 80,000 44,000 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000
SERVICES & SUPPLIERS Barrels Seguin Moreau Napa Cooper- age, seguinmoreaunapa.com; Boutes, boutes.com; Gamba USA/ Botti Generazioni, bottigamba. com; Remond, New World Winery Equipment, enotools.com; Saury, sauryusa.com; Nadalie USA, nadalie. com; T W Boswell, twboswell.com; Trust Hungarian, Trust International Corp., barrelmakers.com; stainless barrels from Paul Mueller, muel.com
Corks
Label design
Label printing
Distribu- tion
POS/DTC tracking
DIAM, G3 Enterprises, diam-cork.com
Initial design by Heroist, heroist. com; currently on WineWeb platform, Wineweb Enterprises, services.wineweb.com
Label Art, labelart.com
Wine Warehouse, winewarehouse. com; Winebow, winebow.com
Wineweb Enterprises, services. wineweb.com; Quickbooks, quickbooks.intuit.com
Banking Union Bank, unionbank.com; Farm Credit West, farmcreditwest.com
Tasting room
Open Thursday through Sunday or by appointment at the Lompoc Wine Ghetto
DRAGONETTE
SERVICES & SUPPLIERS Barrels Francois Freres, Mel Knox Barrel Broker, knoxbarrels.com; Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage, seguinmoreaunapa.com; Ermitage, (707) 224-2377; Gillet, tonnellerie- gillet.com; Sylvain, tonnellerie- sylvain.fr; Radoux, tonnellerie- radoux.com; Saury, sauryusa.com
Bottles M A Silva USA, masilva.com
Capsules Hand-waxed Label design
Label printing
Distribu- tion
POS/DTC tracking
Tasting room
Vin Design, vindesign.com Vintage 99 Label, vintage99.com Website Vin Agency, vinagency.com
Bradford Wine Group, (805) 965- 2818; Garber & Co., garberand- company.com; Burke Wine Broker- age, burkewinebrokerage.com
Quickbooks, quickbooks.intuit.com
Banking Montecito Bank and Trust, montecito.com
Open Thursday through Monday or by appointment in Los Olivos, Calif.