Mixers & Agitators for the Wine Industry
Quality range of mixers, agitators and blenders for wine processing and fermentation operations
Designed with optimal agitation, blending and stabilisation in mind, FluidPro’s top quality range of wine industry mixers are ideal for your wine processing operations.
Wineries and winemakers have benefitted from the use of mixers, which can result in greater quality of wine, including improved flavour profiling, aroma and consistency across batches. While other methods such as pumping have been common in wine making processes for years, they often result in turbulence, which can cause aeration or oxidisation, affecting the overall quality of your wine. Gently mixing it using an agitator allows the ingredients to circulate and blend gently, resulting in a higher quality product without frothing or degradation. Mixing also allows you to keep solids in suspension, such as oak chips for flavouring.
Using mixers and agitators in wine production saves on power, operational time and costs, and allows you to produce a quality end product.
FluidPro’s Australian Made range of mixers and agitators provide the ideal solution to all your winemaking requirements.
Why Use a FluidPro Agitator for Winemaking?
Mixers have become a vital piece of winemaking equipment, adding a myriad of benefits to the wine industry, and improving many wine production processes. Mixing wine blends liquids together, as well as dispersing solids evenly through the mixture for better tannins, colour and mouthfeel.
Improved Wine Consistency
The gentle turbulence caused by a mixer or agitator has positive results on your wine batches. Unlike pumping, mixers blend your liquids without creating dead zones, which could otherwise cause damage to your batch and reduce quality. Mixers allow you to reduce the risk of over-extraction or bottle variance, and instead produce uniform, homogenous mixtures.
Blending
Mixers allow you not only to blend different wine varieties together, but smoothly and seamlessly blend in additives, such as bentonite or gelatine to achieve the right stability, preservatives such as sulphur dioxide, or sugars and other flavour additions.
Fermentation
Because of the even rotation of mixer impellers, mixers and agitators help create and maintain uniform size CO2 bubbles for better fermentation, as well as adding yeast nutrients, increasing contact of yeast lees to accelerate the process.
Flavour Extraction
Mixers allow for a quicker flavour extraction process. Rather than soaking your oak chips to impart their aroma, which can take a long time, mixers blend the chips through your liquid for rapid flavour profiling, reducing the time the oak chips remain in the tank and saving on time and operation costs.
Cold Stabilisation
Reduce energy time and costs by speeding up the process of heat transfer, and achieve cold, stabilised wine sooner. The impellers of your mixer increase the rate of heat transfer by moving your wine over the refrigerated tank walls, improving cold stabilisation and protecting your wines against buildup of tartaric acid salts.
Reduced Operational Costs
FluidPro agitators feature highly efficient axial flow impellers for maximum pumping, to mix your wine more efficiently and save you on power, energy and costs overall.
FluidPro SE-10 Side Entry Mixers
Side Entry Mixers are the most popular agitators for the wine industry. Mounted to the side of your tank, side entry mixers create a uniform turnover of tank contents, moving liquid away from the tank and optimising refrigeration efficiency and heat transfer.
Featuring customised mounts and flanges, the FluidPro SE-10 Series Side Entry Mixer can be attached at the right position and angle to suit your tank design. Its highly efficient axial flow impellers provide maximum pumping and thrust, resulting in effective agitation, reduced wine production times and improved wine blending, flavour profiling, slurry processing and cold stabilisation.
FluidFoil Impellers
FluidPro mixers feature our specialised FluidFoil axial flow impellers, designed for maximised pumping, efficient turnover of tank contents and reduced operational costs. Available with 3 or 4 blades and polished for improved hygiene.
Mixers for Every Winemaking Process
Every winemaker is different, and will have some unique operations or requirements. FluidPro offers a wide range of mixers, agitators and mixing system packages to suit the wine industry, all of which can be customised to suit your exact requirements.
If you have a specific application in mind, talk to us today to request a quote or discuss your operations in more detail.
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Looking for an agitator for your winemaking process, or want to learn more? Contact us to discuss your project in more detail or get a quote.