Solana Gold - Available
Equipment / 1040A
Contact Morton Davis @ 707-829-6028
email: mdavis@solanagold.com
1040 All Stainless Steel Rotary Octagon Tank Fermenters w/CIP ( 6 available)
. Rotary Fermenting Tanks can be used for
a wide range of food processing.
· Mfg'd in the early '90s for Vacu-Dry Inc.'s dehydrated food mfg
plant.
· 600 cubic foot maximum volume (4500 gallon to the top) w/ CIP.
. Tank (octagon) is 12' L X 8' dia., horizontal orientation w/3"
shaft diameter.
. Overall height is 13'. Tank centerline axis is 9' from ground.
. Footprint is 12' X 9' on a 6 legged triangular heavy duty S.S. pipe
frame.
. Hvy duty ribbed & stoutly reinforced, thick-walled tanks, large
S.S. catch pans.
. S.S. Feed & Exit Conveyors, s.s./alum. catwalks.
. Hydraulic and mechanical reduced drives.
CUSTOMIZATION
According to a major, local, rotary fermenting tank manufacturer
in Sonoma County, these tanks need $10K-$20K of customization modification
(refrigeration, time and temperature controls, capacity, feed & exit
conveyor design, etc), in addition to our $15K price.
This same experienced fabricator is willing to make these tanks turnkey
operational for you.
Financing is available through equipment
financing firms.
Install these and watch them perform.
Heavy duty ribbed and stoutly reinforced all over, these thick-walled
tanks with large S.S. catch pans will perform for 100 years--easy! They
are impressive and could not be re-produced for anything close to this
price.
PRICE
$15,000. @ for each of the 4 pre-owned tanks plus an estimated $10-20,000
for customization. (New ones cost $65-80,000.).
Benefits
Specific to Winemaking
Rotary Fermenting Tanks allow the winemaker to get fully
ripe fruit without excessive alcohol. This technique produces stronger
fruit notes, which many newer wine drinkers are buying in record numbers.
Rotary fermenting tanks help produce softer, more accessible, early drinking
red wine which require less aging. They also solve one of the winemaker's
most pressing challenges-cap management and even temperatures during fermentation-and
without hot spots or human error. What's more, they yield faster fermenting
turnaround time (optimal extraction of color and flavor in 3 days Vs 10
days). Maximum speed in separating liquids from solids greatly reduces
oxidation, negative flavors, must browning and other microbial contamination
risks. Some users report another bonus: the ability to ferment year round
from de-sulfited "must".
Some
old school vintners may be hesitant of these changes.
Perhaps they don't fully understand they can STILL
get handmade quality --but now at industrial cost savings.
AWARDS:
This new fermentation technology has, in part, allowed the Australian
vintners to blow the berets off the French. "In the past 5 years
over 100 Aussie red wines have won 'The Wine Spectator's Best Buy' awards
or scored 85 + points," according to ConeTech of California and A&GRF
Engineering in Australia.
Of the many wineries successfully using the rotary fermenting
tank technology, some are located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cost Savings:
1) Labor. Since these units are self cleaning, wineries can save man hours
not having to have men inside the tank during the a) emptying and b) cleaning
processes.
2) Aging: Early drinking wine requiring less aging, means you can move
product more quickly to market.
3) Year Round Fermenting: If wineries can ferment year round from the
de-sulfited "must" (juice before it is fermented), they can
earn more profits.
4) Reduce Contaminants: Elimination of unwanted oxidation, browning and
other contaminations means fewer "re-do's."
There are enough facts to argue that Rotary Fermenting Tanks are revolutionizing the way reds are made and upgrading the economics of winemaking.
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