The new Mediterranean style winery is an extremely high-tech, gravity flow design that uses the sloping hillsides to transfer wine.
The new Mediterranean style winery is an extremely high-tech, gravity flow design that uses the sloping hillsides to transfer wine.
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The grapes are crushed at the top of the hill. |
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The press area and tank room are 22 feet below the crushing pad.
The use of
gravity flow is much gentler on the grapes, which helps to preserve the quality of our
wines.
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Our tanks are monitored and run by computer so that all the temperatures
and rates of fermentation can be precisely controlled.
At the end of the fermentation a graph is printed showing the fermentation
temperatures each day during harvest. The winery is also equipped with automatically timed pump-over devices on each tank. These devices allow the winemaker to pump-over the red wines at least six times per day, producing a more extracted, colorful, flavorful, full bodied wine. |
The bottling room, barrel rooms and Tasting Room
are 22 feet below the tank room.
Today, the Rabbit Ridge winery is the largest on the west side of Paso Robles.
