Modern Methods For Crushing And Destemming The Grapes.

Those delicious small fruits that we all love to use can be a bit hard to make presentable in the market place. Grapes need to be relatively clean and attractive when offered to the general public. Since grapes are favorite fruits for other animals than humans, the signs of the other animals having been tasting the grapes will definitely affect the salability of the grapes at the super market. Any holes made by birds pecking the grapes as well as any manure of rodents who frequented the vines can make the grapes unattractive to consumers.

Even if the grapes are not being sold as table grapes for snacks, the need for cleaning and preparing the grapes remains a problem. Whether the grapes will ultimately be used for juice or wine or go into the making of jelly or jam, cleaning and crushing them is a part of the process involved. The crushing and destemming of the grapes need to be efficiently and cleanly handled.

The old-fashioned idea of having people remove their shoes and stomping on grapes in a large barrel is neither efficient nor clean. It was the method often used many years ago, but our ideas about cleanliness would not allow such means of getting the juice out of the grapes in our day. It is true that some communities that grow lots of grapes may have some type of crushing grape jump as a local fiesta activity. Still, the jumping on grapes is not now considered a regular part of the grape juice manufacturing process. Modern vineyards now use grape presses to squeeze the juice from the fruits, a much more sanitary method than having people jump on grapes in barrels.

Most modern facilities now use machines for crushing grapes. The Boeger Crushing Grape Vineyard in California uses machines for several processes in their wine making facility. Obviously, in the making of wine, there is the problem of getting only the juice from the grapes. The stems are not actually parts of the grapes so the stems need to be removed. They have machines to not only crush the grapes but also to remove the stems before they are crushed. Thus, the juice that they derive is only from the grapes, not from the stems.

Quality of their products is of utmost importance to the Boeger Winery. They grow more than ninety percent of the grapes used in making their wines. They exercise full control over the quality since most of the grapes are grown in their own vineyards.

Cleanliness, careful detail about the quality of the grapes and the use of machines has changed the grape growing industry over the last few years. Manual labor has been diminished somewhat with machinery doing much of the former time-consuming jobs which humans used to do the hard way.

The grape products which are available now are safer and cleaner than ever before. Whether grape juice, jellies, raisins or fresh table grapes, we can now feel more secure about the quality of the fruits of the vineyard.