Our major focus is to provide expert quality winemaking services to the wine industry and to achieve this goal we have equipped our Cambridge winery with the very best winemaking and monitoring equipment.

We produce wines of differing styles depending on our clients’ requirements - from hand plunged basket pressed super premium Pinot Noirs to rotary fermented, micro-ox and oak alternative commercial wines. Our winemaking team works closely with each client to map out a plan for their wines, from the vineyard through to final production. We encourage our clients’ involvement at all stages of the production process and we, in turn regularly visit our client vineyards during the ripening stages to ensure that their grapes are picked at optimal flavours.

Expertise

Winemaking Tasmania invests in its people. The winemaking team consists of four qualified and experienced winemakers.

It is led by senior winemaker Julian Alcorso who has over 30 years experience making Tasmanian wines. The winemakers are well supported by a team of cellar-hands, casual and administrative staff, contractors and consultants.

Investing in quality and education

Winemaking Tasmania continually invests in the best equipment and the latest technology as part of our commitment to ensure that we maximise the quality of the wines we make for our clients. We employ, at no charge to our clients, Nick Bulleid MW as our wine consultant and advisor. Nick runs an annual client benchmarking day and from this year will provide a one-on one tasting and advice session with our clients.

Technology

We are the only Tasmanian licensee (and one of only a handful in Australia) to have access to the Memstar technology – a family of reverse osmosis membrane based processes for adjusting wine composition and enhancing quality. A reverse osmosis (RO) machine is the centre of a range of hi-tech equipment available for our clients as part of our winemaking service and, if required for client wines, is free of charge. We also offer a range of mobile wine treatment services including alcohol adjustment, wine and juice concentration, VA reduction and taint removal.

Filtration

Our winery is equipped with the latest filtration equipment including cross-flow which results in higher yields of finished wine per tonne of grapes at significantly reduced impact on wine quality.

Barrels

We invest heavily in the best French oak barrels for our client wines and have a policy of regular barrel renewal. Clients of Winemaking Tasmania are assured of having their wine in the best and most appropriate wood available.

General information

Minimum quantities apply and are currently 2 tonnes per variety.

Our pricing is competitive and our payment terms may be structured to best suit our clients’ cash flows.

We offer a labelling and packaging service as well as limited storage for finished wines at an additional charge.

We operate our own 12 tonne truck which may be available to transport grapes and/or finished wine at an additional charge. For a copy of our standard winemaking contract and pricing please email, write or call us.