trailer world Issue Two 2013

Issue Two 2013 29 Report ner through the capacity selection of the excentric screw pump, its revolutions per minute and the hose diameter. The trans- port distance should also be kept as short as possible. Customer delivery multiple times per year After unloading from the grape trans- porter, the gentle handling of the grapes continues. “We do this by pressing the entire grape in a so-called pneumatic press, whereby the grapes are pneumati- cally pressed against a cloth”, explains the vintner Achim Pfirrmann. “Using this procedure, we avoid bitter constituents entering the juice and make it possible to separate from the grapes any foreign bod- ies from the vineyard.” When settling has finished, and with it all suspended and solid particles are removed, only the clear juice is left for fermentation. During the eight to fourteen days of the fermentation, Pfirrmann holds the temperature constantly between 17 and 18 degrees Celsius, to keep the aroma substances in the wine as far as possible intact. This very gentle fermentation pro- cess is quite decisive for the fruit and the character of the wine. After sulphuris- ing the wines and eliminating the yeast, the wine is ready for the so-called fining, where the wine is treated in such a way that it fulfils the legal requirements regarding the contents. The independent laboratory Emmel in Roschbach near Landau checks the wine and gives recommendation for further treatment. After a further eight days, the wine is clear and clean and re- quires a certain time to mature, before it is filtered for the last time and then bot- tled. Depending on the type of ageing, the wine will then mature for some months in barrique barrels for a fuller taste or it is available for sale straight away. Three to four times a year, the vintner Pfirrmann still makes deliveries to his cus- tomers himself. His tours lead him through Germany and Europe, and he even has some customers in Thailand. “Otherwise, our online shop is available round the clock for orders and in the meantime has become very popular”, says Pfirrmann. “We also offer completely personalised labels for weddings or corporate events, and are al- ways willing to orient ourselves closely towards customer requirements”. Howev- er, the be-all and end-all is the quality of the wine. (tw) For more information: www.chateau-pau.de and www.zickler-gmbh.de Photos:RomanGemmrich,ChateauPau Zickler A-M-Produkt GmbH  The Zickler A-M-Produkt GmbH, with headquarters in Böchingen near Landau, has been offering product and service solutions for customers in the wine and fruit growing business for several dec- ades. The brand name “Zickler System Rauch” was created in 1996, when the firm Rauch handed over their vineyard programme to Zickler. Since then, grape transporters, mash pumps and destemmers are produced at Zickler. The company Rauch is a leading producer in the area of machines for fertilising and municipal services ma- chinery. In the course of the long-term collaboration and partnership, today Rauch produces the main components for the Zickler destemmers. Not only when harvesting, but also during transport, it is essential that the grapes are handled particularly gently. The reason for this is that only if the harvest can be processed further with as little damage as possible, will the process yield a wine with a respective high quality.

trailer world Issue Two 2013

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