Our task was to design and incorporate their method, needs and capacity into the existing winery building. This was achieved for Vintage 2008 with much hard work from the assembled team, and  fortunately the Vintage was a great success.

The following year, Vintage 2009, required additional capacity, so a tank farm external to the winery building was constructed – 7 x 100Kl tanks, and a second grape receival bin was installed.

This is a high quality boutique winery as the photos show, and all work had to  be of the highest order of quality.

Winery Technologies and the supply team will organise all projects  to satisfy the clients requirements  so budget, timeliness and quality can be met in addition to taking care of every detail. We believe that the Project Manager must be the clients representative.

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This project was to replace an inefficient energy usage system with a more powerful, energy efficient system. The project was conducted as part of the Australian Government Re-Tooling for Climate Change Programme.

The Freon based standalone chillers were replaced with an ammonia based compressor system designed to provide efficiently for the high refrigeration demands of Vintage and the very reduced energy demand for non Vintage chilling. The system was designed and installed with Cold Logic as Head Contractor after an exhaustive selection process. It was commissioned for Vintage 2012 and is showing initial energy savings of the order of 20 to 25% compared with previous years.

The Plant Room was constructed to house the system as designed and to allow for future expansion of the winery.

The total project of $1.4m was completed on time for commissioning trials and on budget.

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The objective of the upgrade is to make the treatment process more robust in coping with the demands of the truck wash plant, and to enable all treated water to be absorbed on the site as irrigation water for the boundary and other sub surface plantings.

Process advice and direction has been given by Phillip Baker of Land Energy Pty Ltd.

The upgrade is based on increasing retention length, providing significant increase in aeration capacity and in installing a more effective settling and filtration equipment.

Since the upgrade has been completed the BOD at output has dropped significantly, and the process has become more stable. It is now suitable for irrigation with dripper and subsurface delivery to the irrigated areas, which are being expanded.

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Firstly there was the potential for increased power requirement by the winery, and secondly there was the potential for increased power requirement by expansion of the local town of Auburn.

The cost to expand the local substation was significant so in conjunction with ETSA Planners a solution was raised to bring power to the winery direct from the 33kVA distributor line.

Because of the significant savings to the local community, the project was conducted in conjunction with the State Government Regional Development Infrastructure Funding Programme.

This required a 3.5km 33kVA 3 phase power line to be designed and installed using a team of specialist designers, and prior to Vintage 2010.

The line was commissioned 9th December 2009, on schedule and under budget. The existing line supplying power from the local substation will be removed, as part of the project before summer 2012.

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Nasik is a fruit and vegetable growing area some 120kms to the north east of MUMBAI and is home to some 57 wine producers, some with connections into Australia. The concept was developed by the client, a very large construction company in India, in conjunction with Davidson Viticulture, who had planted the vineyard.

The winery was designed by Winery Technologies Australia in conjunction with Ian J McKenzie, Consulting Winemaker. Advice on procurement ,placement and construction was also provided by Winery Technologies. Our knowledge of the global supply chain for winery equipment and supply, and our relationships within the global supply chain proved invaluable in sourcing the required equipment to achieve the budgets developed for the winery.

Construction proceeded through the drought breaking monsoon and the winery was able to be commissioned in time for the 2011 Vintage.

The wines, and those of the 2012 vintage are still in maturation but the client and the winemaker are confident they will be far superior to the general levels of wine produced in India.

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As the photographs suggest the civils were a huge task. However the 3500m2 tank farm was installed for that first Vintage and then the following year the winemaking process was added. This winey incorporates many features to assist the winemakers produce wines of the highest order

The photographs show some of these features, and we would be happy and proud to discuss them in detail with anybody who has n interest. Winery Technologies is still heavily involved in the development of this site as the winemaking and market challenges arise.

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