Custom Crush
Crushpad offers a full range of custom crush services designed for people producing larger volumes of wine. For those that don't need our fully integrated services we also offer a la carte pricing. Contact Steve Ryan at makewine@crushpadwine.com or call 1.877.946.3404 x 7400.
Focused on small lot, ultra premium wines, Crushpad emphasizes winemaking techniques that preserve the quality of the fruit created in the vineyard. For delicate varietals, we emphasize gravity-fed operations, positive displacement wine movement, basket pressing and other gentle techniques.
Crush and Fermentation
- Fruit sorting
- De-stemming and/or crushing
- Whole cluster pressing
- Cold soak
- Small lot fermentations
- Hand punch downs
- Basket pressing
Winemaking
- Winemaking consultation services
- Standard additions
- Racking
- Blending
- Fining
- Cold stabilization
- Filtration
Storage & Aging
- Barrel or tank storage
- Temperature-controlled barrel aging
- New barrel preparation
- Standard barrel storage services (topping, racking, additions)
- Multi-year storage options
Analysis
- Brix
- Total acid (automated titration)
- pH
- Total & free SO2
- Malolactic
- Alcohol
- CO2
- NH3
- Enzymatic R.S. and malate
- Volatile acidity
- Specific gravity
- O2
- Bottling QA/QC
- Routine wine / lot maintenance
Packaging
- Custom packaging
- Package consulting
- Label registration
- Bottling logistics
Compliance
- General BATF / ABC
- Export & out-of-state compliance
- Alternating proprietorship
- Label registration
