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Automation: for better, cleaner, more stable and more consistent wine

Our GAI automated bottling line will clean, sparge with nitrogen, fill, and apply corks or twist off caps at the rate of fifty bottles a minute.  You can watch it in operation on this YouTube video.

 

 

Screw cap or cork?

 

Over the past three years we have been gradually switching our wines from cork closures to the new Stelvin screw caps.

Why?  very simply, because it is a better closure for wine.  No more cork taint, leakage, spoilage, and hard to remove corks.

Why did it take so long?  Traditional beliefs are very difficult to change.  Corks have been used for 1000+ years.  But cork is the bark of a tree, and there is no way to sterilize cork without destroying it.  The wine world has accepted the fact that 10 - 12% of wine is spoiled by bad corks.  Some people, we'll call them "wine snobs", like the mystery of not knowing if a wine will be good until they pull the cork, hear the pop, and examine and smell that piece of bark....

No more!  We still have some corks in our aged dry red wines.  But we will shortly begin changing all wines to screw caps. 

 

 

 

Ruby Port 

Many years in the making... actually, we've been making it for many years.  This is the first time we have had enough (after family consumption) to offer some for sale.  It's a full-bodied, deep ruby colored, premium port. Very limited quantity, at a very reasonable price: $16 for a 750 ml bottle.

A very limited quantity of White Port is also available.

 

 

9th annual buckingham valley vineyards

outdoor sculpture exhibit is over, but...