NW Wine Company

Custom Winegrowing Facility In The Heart of Oregon Wine Country

Winemaking Process
NW Wine Co. utilizes only the most state of the art winemaking equipment to gently produce quality wines. The dynamic winery is home to some of the most innovative winemaking equipment in the United States.

Receiving Lines
Managing the arrival of fruit from 55 vineyards in the Willamette Valley takes careful orchestration and planning. In order to maintain the integrity of the fruit upon arrival, NW Wine has two receiving lines to process fruit in double the time of traditional wineries. Each receiving line has a vibrating sorting table placing each cluster of fruit independently on the table for manual inspection. At this time marginal fruit, fruit with blemishes, mold, or uneven ripening is removed.

EuroPress
NW Wine is home to one of two EuroPress destemmers in the United States. The unique new generation destemmer has rubber finger-like extensions that gently removes the grapes from their stems. The slow moving elevator moves the grapes through the destemmer where they are carefully removed from their stems, causing minimal fractures at the stem base.

Bladder Press
Each white wine grape cluster is hand sorted, but surpasses the destemming process. Instead, all white wine grapes including Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Viognier and Riesling are pressed whole cluster. The bladder presses gently extracts the juices from the grapes where they flow into stainless steel tanks and undergo low temperature fermentation.

Barrel Rooms
The storage capacity of the 100% temperature and humidity controlled barrel rooms at NW Wine exceeds 1,200 barrels. Utilizing cooperage from some of the best Coopers in France and North America, each wine barrel is individually labeled, monitored, and racked based upon the goals of the winemaker and client.

In addition to traditional barrels, NW Wine is home to several rotary fermentors. These rare barrels allow red wine to ferment in the barrel, adding to the complexity of style while intensifying the fruit and integrating the tannins in the wine.

Ganimede

Through history, passion has been the engine driving man to discover new possibilities and nature has always been the one to offer man the tools that he needed for making his dreams come true.

Ganimede combines passion and the force of nature in an effective system that provides an ancient tradition with a great innovative future.

The fermentation process produces a large amount of carbon dioxide: 40 to 50 litres of gas per litre of must.

This incredible potential - as yet untapped - corresponds to a huge energy supply that, if correctly stocked, is a precious tool for the winemaker.

It is a free and natural energy source that is immediately available: the bubbles of fermenting carbon dioxide pound the surface marc thanks to a simple and effective technology that concentrates enormous resources in the user friendly Ganimede bypass.

Winemakers will find a loyal friend in Ganimede because this system carries out the maceration and fermentation processes in the most natural way, using a soft and versatile technology that can be adapted to different grape varieties and different winemaking methods.