Red Wine Fermentation Tanks

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Red wine fermentation tanks.

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. Red wines are fermented using the entire grape skins and all. Zoecklein 6 fermentor tank size frequently depends upon vineyard plot size speed of picking and filling cooling capacity cap management system and pressing capacity. Winery equipment flextank fermentation tanks call today to place your order.

Tanks designed to perform the fermentation process of red wines by incorporating cooling heating chambers depending on the cooling surface required by each tank. We are now stocking a year round selection of variable capacity wine tanks also known as stainless steel variable capacity tanks with floating lid. Red wine is made like white wine but with one major difference. The manway opens along the top edge rather than the side edge as well.

They are manufactured in different diameters depending on the customer s needs. Generally it ferments with the grape skins and juice combined in a tank or vat. 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. When making red wines two basic criteria need to be taken into account.

Red wine fermentation tanks. During fermentation yeast create alcohol and co2 gas. Red wine production section 2 dr. Ideal for fermenting small to medium parcels of red wine.

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. Features of open top wine fermenter. Our variable capacity wine tanks are constructed using high quality virgin 304 stainless steel. Tanks for wine is your source for wine tanks parts and accessories.

Large skin contact area for better color extraction. Options for variable volume tanks only. White wines are pressed before fermentation. Fermentation and phenolic extraction vary with different tanks and cap management techniques.

The superior quality and craftsmanship of our wine fermentation tanks and stainless steel fermenters is unsurpassed. We can also provide a complete line of pump over wine fermenters and wine storage tanks for both red wine and white wine. A fermentation manway is a special upgraded manway that includes a beefy sloped channel being installed into the base of the tank.