Red Wine Fermentation Tanks

The superior quality and craftsmanship of our wine fermentation tanks and stainless steel fermenters is unsurpassed.

Red wine fermentation tanks.

Generally it ferments with the grape skins and juice combined in a tank or vat. Large skin contact area for better color extraction. Though any winery visitor is familiar with the looming steel tanks now popular for both red and white wine fermentation this technology only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Whether you re looking for variable capacity conical bottom flat bottom jacketed fermenting tanks or more gw kent has what you need to produce wine that will be appreciated for generations.

Red wine production section 2 dr. A fermentation manway is a special upgraded manway that includes a beefy sloped channel being installed into the base of the tank. Fermentation and phenolic extraction vary with different tanks and cap management techniques. During fermentation yeast create alcohol and co2 gas.

We can also provide a complete line of pump over wine fermenters and wine storage tanks for both red wine and white wine. Red wines are fermented using the entire grape skins and all. They are manufactured in different diameters depending on the customer s needs. We are now stocking a year round selection of variable capacity wine tanks also known as stainless steel variable capacity tanks with floating lid.

Ideal for fermenting small to medium parcels of red wine. No need to go to tank inside when dropping pomace. White wines are pressed before fermentation. Tanks designed to perform the fermentation process of red wines by incorporating cooling heating chambers depending on the cooling surface required by each tank.

Winery equipment flextank fermentation tanks call today to place your order. This is designed to help with the evacuation of red wine solids after fermentation. As the co2 bubbles up through the wine a portion gets trapped in the skins and causes them to float on the surface of the wine in a mass called the cap. Features of open top wine fermenter.

Our variable capacity wine tanks are constructed using high quality virgin 304 stainless steel. Options for variable volume tanks only. Red wine is made like white wine but with one major difference. When making red wines two basic criteria need to be taken into account.

The manway opens along the top edge rather than the side edge as well. Red wine fermentation tanks. Zoecklein 6 fermentor tank size frequently depends upon vineyard plot size speed of picking and filling cooling capacity cap management system and pressing capacity.