WINE MAKING - Learn how to make wine with Crushpad
Key Crushpad Services
Focused on small lot, ultra premium wines, Crushpad emphasizes winemaking techniques that preserve the quality of 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 consultation services
- Standard additions
- Racking
- Blending
- Fining
- Cold stabilization
- Filtration
- Barrel or tank storage
- Temperature-controlled barrel aging
- New barrel preparation
- Standard barrel storage services (topping, racking, additions)
- Multi-year storage options
- 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
- Custom packaging
- Package consulting
- Label registration
- Bottling logistics
- General BATF / ABC
- Export & out-of-state compliance
- Alternating proprietorship
- Label registration