Red Wine Fermentation Tanks

The combi tank is excellent for use in the red wine fermentation process known as delestage or rack and return.

Red wine fermentation tanks. Traditional barrels cannot be used because you can t get the skins in and out of the bunghole. Generally it ferments with the grape skins and juice combined in a tank or vat. Red wine is made like white wine but with one major difference. When making red wines two basic criteria need to be taken into account.

White wines are pressed before fermentation. This is designed to help with the evacuation of red wine solids after fermentation. Tanks for wine is your source for wine tanks parts and accessories. A few wineries use barrels with a small door installed in the head of the barrel.

16 red wine fermentation tank top manway with relief valve racking valve. 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. The top tank is an open top primary fermentation tank. Features of open top wine fermenter.

Ideal for fermenting small to medium parcels of red wine. Grapes go into a fermentation tank with their skins seeds and all. The superior quality and craftsmanship of our wine fermentation tanks and stainless steel fermenters is unsurpassed. The manway opens along the top edge rather than the side edge as well.

Large skin contact area for better color extraction. The lower tank acts as storage for the fermented wine. By the way some red wine varieties like pinot noir do well fermenting with whole clusters. 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.

We are now stocking a year round selection of variable capacity wine tanks also known as stainless steel variable capacity tanks with floating lid. Options for variable volume tanks only. Red wines get their deep color from their grape skins. We can also provide a complete line of pump over wine fermenters and wine storage tanks for both red wine and white wine.

No need to go to tank inside when dropping pomace. Fermentation tanks fermentation tanks can be food grade plastic wood or stainless steel. Sometimes the crushed grapes are chilled called cold soaking so flavor and color in the skins transfer into the juice. During fermentation yeast create alcohol and co2 gas.

Customize the fermenter you need for your winery. Our variable capacity wine tanks are constructed using high quality virgin 304 stainless steel. Every part is well designed and unique. A fermentation manway is a special upgraded manway that includes a beefy sloped channel being installed into the base of the tank.