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In The Winery
When to Upgrade a Bottle-Filling
Machine & the Options Available
By: Alyssa L. Ochs
B ottle-filling machines are crucial pieces of basic purpose and have similar functions, there are
many options available. Overall, there are three dif-
equipment in the winery for getting prod-
ucts onto store shelves and into consum-
semi-automatic and automatic. A logical place to
ers’ hands. If your winery has been using the same ferent categories of bottle-filling systems: manual,
filling machine for a long time, it might be time to start with choosing this type of equipment is to first
consider an upgrade to match your current level of consider the winery’s size.
production and evolving needs.
Rod Silver handles marketing and sales for
Here is an overview of different bottle-filling XpressFill Systems, LLC in San Luis Obispo,
machines to consider for an upgrade, how to com- California. He told The Grapevine Magazine that
pare this equipment, and tips for choosing the right manual fillers are more suited to very small win-
product for your winery. eries and home vintners because these devices
fill just one bottle at a time. However, this is not
Bottle-Filling Machine Options practical for many wineries in operation today.
XpressFill manufactures bottle- and can-filling
Although bottle-filling machines serve the same machines handcrafted and custom-made for the
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