Consumer demand is soaring for alternative beverages, including wine-based flavored beverages, low and no-alcohol wine, low-calorie wine, and cider. The team at Four Feathers Wine Services is here to help.
Our dedicated team focuses on beverage innovation and helps clients explore new products. We work with established companies and start-ups that want to meet the growing market for calorie-conscious, low-alcohol-conscious, and environmentally-friendly products.
By leveraging our industry-leading technology and experienced staff, clients can overcome complicated winemaking challenges and produce unique products.
We offer some of the most sophisticated wine refinement services available in North America.
Our Advanced Targeted Filtration System (ATF) allows us to target and remediate many common issues that can arise in winemaking, including acetic acid and ethyl acetate, smoke taint, 4-EP/ 4-EG taints associated with Brettanomyces, frost taint, water dilution, as well as other molecular taints.
This system also incorporates Ultra Filtration (UF), providing the ability to achieve color, sugar, and tannin concentration in both juice and wine.
ATF allows exacting control of alcohol content, allowing for ideal wine balance and fruit expression (sweet spotting) or complete removal of alcohol (<0.5% abv) to create novel new products.
Introducing Intensify by Four Feathers
Intensify is a winemaker’s secret weapon to build color intensity, depth, and complexity in finished wines. Wine integrity is assured through the use of 100% Columbia Valley vinifera grapes, microbial stability, and no added alcohol or residual sugar often associated with wine blend additives.
Intensify is created with estate Cabernet Sauvignon from McNary Vineyard passed through a flash détente for color extraction, specially fermented to reduce bitterness, and concentrated by ultrafiltration. The result is a wine additive that helps mitigate the common issues of vintage variation, underripe fruit, and the effects of wine remediation treatments.
SYSTEMS INCLUDE:
Advanced Targeted Filtration system built around reverse osmosis enables the effective filtration and treatment of wines at scale
VA reduction
Smoke taint remediation - multiple approaches
Frost taint remediation
UF (Ultra-filtration) for wine and juice concentration
Juice and color concentration
Alcohol sweet spotting
Alcohol removal (0.5% abv)
ATF: Test Track
Bench-top scale ATF that allows winemakers to trial the benefits of ATF system before committing to production scale
Crossflow systems: Pall Oenoflow XL 12A & 6A
Filters product to 0.3 micron for cellar bright results
Flotation settling: AEB E-Flot 50
Flotation processing clarifies white juice with less energy input and more control
Micro oxygenation: Enartis MicrOX
Process that simulates barrel aging of wines in tank
Rotary Vacuum Filtration: TMCI Padovan Taylo 10 Vacuum Filter System
Enables wine recovery from lees, increasing juice retention and decreasing processing losses by 3 to 7 percent.
Centrifugation: STS Centrifuge 200
Enables winemakers to hit targets for various winemaking goals, such as RS levels and clarification of juice or wine.
T.O.A.D. pump over systems
Wine distribution device provides consistent cap irrigation
Pulsair
Gentle cap management system that promotes fruit and minimizes harsh tannins.
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