WINEMAKING TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT
30 WINES&VINES April 2018
Silver Oak Cellars
7370 Highway 128, Healdsburg, Calif. • (707) 942-7022 • silveroak.com
The Technical Spotlight is a regular feature highlighting wineries in North America that have recently
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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Source: Wines Vines Analytics Source: Wines Vines Analytics
WINERY CASE PRODUCTION WINERY AVERAGE BOTTLE PRICE
0 20 40 60 80 100
Thousands
Silver Oak Cellars
Sonoma County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
70,000
42,000
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100
Silver Oak Cellars
Sonoma County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
$13
MAKING THE WINE
Receiving hopper
and conveyor
Cluster Thruster, P&L Specialties, pnlspecialties.com
Destemmer Scott Laboratories Inc., scottlab.com
Presses Diemme Enologia, diemme-enologia.com
Fermentation tanks Santa Rosa Stainless Steel, srss.com;
La Garde, lagardeinox.com
Barrel-processing Tom Beard Co., tombeard.com
Pumps Burgstahler Machine Works, (707) 967-0553
Barrels The Oak Cooperage, theoak.com
Bottling line ColloPack Solutions, collopack.com
Barrel racks Western Square Industries Inc., westernsquare.com
PRESIDENT AND CEO
David Duncan
VICE PRESIDENT
Tim Duncan
DIRECTOR OF
WINEMAKING
Daniel Baron
WINEMAKER
Nate Weis
YEAR BONDED
1972
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER
SALES:
25%
VINEYARD ACREAGE
400
$13
$28
100,000
38,000
$85
PACKAGING
Glass Gallo Glass Co., galloglass.com; Saverglass,
saverglass.com; Verallia USA, sgp-packaging.com;
Bruni Glass, A Berlin Packaging Company, bruniglass.com;
Berlin Packaging, berlinpackaging.com
Corks Cork Supply USA, corksupply.com; Scott Laboratories,
scottlab.com; PortoCork, portocork.com;
Amorim Cork America, amorimca.com
Capsules Rivercap USA, rivercap.com; Amcor Flexibles, stelvin.com
Label printing
Label screen printing
Multi-Color Corp. (MCC), mcclabel.com/wine-spirit.html;
Universal Packaging, thinkuniversal.com
Wood boxes Wine Country Cases, winecountrycases.com
Etching California Etching, californiaetching.com
Cartons/cases Pacific Southwest Container, teampsc.com;
Crown Packaging Corp, crownpack.com
BUILDING THE WINERY
Architect Sagan Piechota Architecture, sp-architecture.com
Contractor Cello & Maudru Construction, cello-maudru.com
Structural, civil
and wastewater
engineering
Summit Engineering, summit-sr.com
Mechanical and
plumbing engineering
TEP Engineering, tep.net
Landscape architect Marta Fry Landscape Associates, mflastudio.com
Lighting design Eric Johnson Associates, ericjohnsonassociates.com
Catwalks Garzini Welding, garziniwelding.com
Electrical Lunardi Electric, lunardielectric.com
Sustainability
consultants
Thornton Tomasetti, thorntontomasetti.com
Solar and battery
designer
Pure Power Solutions, purepowersolutions.com
Energy consultant Gilleran Energy Management, gilleranenergy.com
Food Service
Consultant
KRB Specialists, krbspecialists.com
