Industry Served

Winery

Overview

Our winery chillers are the best in the industry, and include features like temperature control, year-round processing, and capacity control.

We engineer winery process chillers with one goal in mind: to keep your winemaking equipment running strong. With over 50 years of experience, we offer a robust line of industrial-grade air-cooled and water-cooled systems. We design cost-effective and dependable custom-ready solutions to satisfy your winery’s unique process cooling requirements, bringing our industry-leading engineering and service expertise to ensure reliability and ease of operation. With a dedicated technical and customer support team, we walk you through the winery chiller selection and start-up process and remain here for you long after installation. Rely on our industry-leading expertise to help you maximize your winery’s operations and profits.

Brochure

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winery chiller uses

Our industrial-grade winery chillers use process cooling to draw heat away from your equipment, so they operate smoothly and efficiently. Our units are suited for a variety of winemaking processes, including:

  • Wort cooling
  • Brite tank temperature control
  • Fermentation temperature control
  • Crash cooling
  • Pre-packaging
  • Product storage

Do you need a chiller for a winemaking process not listed? Let us know – we’re here to help.

Products

We offer industrial-grade air- and water-cooled glycol winery process chillers from ¼ ton to 200 tons to accommodate wineries of all sizes. Learn more about our scroll, semi-hermetic, and screw chiller systems below.

Why Choose Drake Wine Chillers?
Our winery process chillers vs. standard comfort chillers
How a Drake Winery Chiller integrates into your winemaking system

We make integrating our chillers into your winemaking process easy using an internal tank for stable temperatures, a glycol/air heat exchanger, and glycol return and supply headers.

Contact us to learn more about integrating an industrial-grade winery chiller into your winemaking process.

Winery chiller customization options

We can custom engineer your winery process chiller to ensure it has all the features you need to maximize your winemaking process. The following are just a few of the customization options you can select.

Flexible redundancy options

With full or partial redundancy options, we’ll engineer a customized solution to meet your winery’s needs, giving you the precise cooling capacity you need to keep your winemaking equipment operating smoothly.

Choose from redundancy options, such as:

  • Full capacity redundancy
  • Full electrical isolation
  • Dual or multi-circuit units
  • Auto-changeover redundant pumps

Custom Controls

Our engineers can customize your winery chiller’s program controls so that it’s easier to manage your winemaking functions. We also offer an MCS micro-controller upgrade option for a tighter-controlled process, allowing you to monitor and adjust the settings with the touch of a button. Chiller Guard is another feature we can program to send an email or text message in case of an alarm on your wine chiller system.

Energy Efficiency Options

If you’re interested in conserving energy and saving energy costs, we offer a variety of energy-efficiency options to help maximize your winery chiller investment, including:

  • EC condenser fan motors deliver electricity efficiency and more stable temperatures
  • Electronic expansion valves (EEVs)
  • Glycol economizer for free-cooling capability
  • Floating head pressure for efficient cooling in temperatures under 95˚F
  • Heat reclaim options for hot water loop or hot liquor tank (HLT)
  • Pump variable frequency drive (VFD) for reduced energy consumption
Other Add-ons and Customizations

When you need an engineered solution designed for the specific needs of your winery, our vast array of customization options provide flexibility and peace of mind. Make your winery process chiller work as hard as you do with even more add-ons and custom options, such as:

  • Digital flow meters
  • Circuit breakers
  • Low-ambient protection
  • Long-draw system add-on
  • Phase monitor
  • Fused disconnect
  • Plate and frame specialty heat

Our engineers can also build your winery chiller system to handle specific requirements, such as:

  • Varying loads
  • Multiple pieces of equipment
  • Narrow temperature bands
  • Near freezing water
  • Low exiting temperatures
  • High return temperatures
  • Low or high ambient conditions
  • Corrosive environments
Our expertise and service make all the difference

Our expertise and service are just as important as the high-performing process chillers we manufacture. Trust our experts to guide you through every step of the process with:

  1. Technical site review and needs assessment – Our team will review your winery site and assess your needs to ensure you receive the ideal process chiller for your needs.
  2. Custom engineering for the winery industry – We know how to customize winery process chillers so that they’re reliable and cost-effective for your unique winemaking operation.
  3. Outstanding after-the-sale technical support – Our high level of support continues after the sale with our exceptional technical support from industry veterans invested in your success.

Are you ready to put our expertise and service to work for you? Contact us to request a quote for a high-performance wine chiller system.

Why Us

We have been manufacturing high-performance and cost-effective industrial process chillers since 1972. This vast experience allows us to offer the most robust lineup of engineered solutions to elevate your winemaking operations.

Choose us because we offer:

  • 50 years of experience
  • Proven 99.4% uptime rate
  • Custom engineered solutions
  • Quick delivery options
  • USA manufactured winery chillers
  • Excellent customer and technical support
How to buy Drake wine process Chillers

Drake chillers are available through most refrigeration wholesalers, allowing you to work with the suppliers and contractors you know and trust. Representatives are located throughout the United States and Central and South America, so you can get the support you need for all project stages, no matter your location.

With 50 years of experience delivering engineered solutions to a wide array of industries, we have the knowledge and expertise to design the ideal industrial process chiller for your application. Our sales and engineering teams are ready to discuss your project, and our service team provides over-the-phone technical support with remote login capabilities throughout the life cycle of your Drake wine chiller system.

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