Mobile bottling handled with care Stephen O’Loughlin
theY treAt theIr customer’s wines as carefully as they would a patient. that’s the philosophy of paramedics turned wine bottlers, Ian Angel and Stephen Chapple. the pair took over ownership of mobile Wine Processing two years ago, after several months of training and learning the business while alternating with shifts in the medical profession. Based in Geelong, Victoria, mobile Wine Processing covers a vast area of wine regions across Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. mobile Wine Processing offers winemakers the benefit of fulfilling all of their bottling needs on-site at their own winery. mobile Wine Processing can complete a range of solutions for wine bottling and packaging including filtration, filling, bottle closures, capsuling and labelling. this mobile service brings the latest equipment and skilled personnel to the winery’s production environment and
keeps the winemaker in full control of the bottling and packaging process. “With us on site, we encourage the winemaker to be active in the process and decision making,” Angel said. “Being owner and operators, if there are any last minute changes by the winemaker, they can come straight to us and we can implement them immediately.” the service has the capacity to do 3000 bottles an hour for cleanskins and 2800 per hour for labelled bottles. With no minimum charge, it has proven to deliver a cost-effective advantage for wineries and vineyards alike. mobile Wine Processing offers all types of closures, including Stelvin screwcaps, LuX, WAK, 31.5mm caps as well as cork. Sterilisation of the equipment occurs on site daily and they filter and recycle water to 0.5micron. If needed, the team can also supply their own electricity by way of a threephase generator.
testimonials “There are many benefits and the reality is that bottling equipment requires a great deal of knowledge and expertise to maintain and troubleshoot. To have this complicated machinery turn up at your winery and have clever operators ensuring a quality finish is very reassuring at this crucial and stressful stage of winemaking,” Mark Hunter, winemaker at Sanguine Estate, Heathcote, Victoria . “We’ve been using them for two years now. They’re versatile, flexible and extremely professional. I can’t recommend them highly enough really,” Greg Dedman, managing director at Vintage Services of Australia, Bendigo, Victoria.
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