North America's Leader in Wine Filtration

We seek out superior technologies and deliver them to North America's wine producers with unparalleled service, expertise and dedication.

Winesecrets meets wine producer’s growing need for environmentally sustainable production methods, and provides solutions to some of the problems posed by the changing climate.

Winesecrets offers a variety of wine filtration technologies.  We learned that the most formidable barrier to the adoption of environmentally friendly technologies is capital investment.  We broke this barrier by mounting the equipment on trailers, and offering these technologies as a mobile service, greatly reducing the cost of use.

 

Winesecrets branded U.S. and Canadian companies operate in California, Oregon, Washington, the B.C. Okanagan Valley, and the Niagara region of Ontario.

 

Winesecrets’ services allow wineries to bring a wider range of wines to market in less time than is possible with conventional methods of wine correction and finishing.  Winesecrets offers a variety of wine filtration technologies.  These technologies include:

Reverse Osmosis (RO)

Which uses extremely high pressure and very small (>200 Dalton) pores to separate small molecules so that they may be selectively removed without effecting the larger color and flavor components of the wine. Our wine reverse osmosis technology is used to fine-tune the concentration of alcohol in wine by alcohol removal, and for wine taint removal such as volatile acidity, wildfire smoke and 3-ethyl phenol. In must and juice, reverse osmosis is used to reduce water concentration, increasing flavor components. Volatile acid removal uses reverse osmosis to remove a variety of undesirable flavors from wines.  Smoke Taint removal uses reverse osmosis to remove undesirable effects of the grape crop being exposed to smoke from wildfires. Wine concentration and alcohol adjustment use reverse osmosis to change the amount of alcohol in wine, either by increasing the sugar in the juice before the wine is made – desirable in cold climates – or by removing alcohol from finished wine in warm climates. Must concentration uses reverse osmosis to reduce the amount of water in the juice prior to fermentation to increase to potential alcohol.

Selective Tartrate Removal (STARS)

Wine Electrodialysis provides tartrate stabilization, reduce titratable acidity and adjust pH.  Tartrate stabilization by STARS accelerates the traditional methods of cold stabilization while providing significant reductions in energy consumption. STARS uses a weak electrical field and highly selective membranes to transport organic salts out of wine.  STARS replaces energy-intensive bulk refrigeration previously used to accomplish this separation.  It has become a must-have tool for sustainable wine production. Wine pH adjustment, a new derivative technology of the STARS electrodialysis process, which improves wine’s color and flavor. Winesecrets is sole implementer and distributor of this technology in North America. 

Cross-Flow Microfiltration

Uses pressure and small pores to remove solid particles from the wine, while a tangential flow along the surface of the membrane prevents the pores from clogging. Wine clarification by cross-flow micro-filtration removes solid particles from the wine, improving flavor, clarity and appearance.  Winesecrets’ process is a readily portable replacement for filtration with diatomaceous earth, pads and other disposable media.  Crossflow microfiltration provides clear wine with less loss and less stripping than filters with disposable media.  Best of all, there is no mass of used D.E. or pads to be thrown in the trash.

Ultrafiltration (UF)

Incorporating cross-flow type technology we offer three different membranes sizes to achieve the customer’s desired goal. Operating at lower pressures and larger porosity than RO, ultrafiltration has been successfully used but not limited to clarifying hard press white wine or juice without needing fining agents, legally concentrating weak red wine color and tannins, removing frost damage characteristics, and greatly reducing processing loss. Rather than sell your hard press juice or wine at a reduced rate let us help you increase its value or even use it for your own program. Unlike other fining processes that permanently strip undesirable characteristics, if you go too far you can back blend with UF!