(trench drain)
Meeting Notes from Kinkead Ridge Winery visit with Ron Barrett:
+ Questions to ask yourself--
What will the winery be?
Location?
Target customer?
How to sell?
Proportion of red to white wine?
Initial vs. ultimate size?---Plan for future growth!
Most wineries experience significant growth.
+ Initial Size? try 5000-10000 cases---keep production costs down, make profit without expensive wine, afford to distribute to retailers
+ TTB--the federal tax people (officially the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau)
this department deals with all the regulations, taxes, licensing, labeling, permiting, etc. that come with wine growing, making and selling.
The most important aspect of the TTB's regulations to designing a winery has to do with when the winery has to start paying taxes on the wine. When wine is in bond, no taxes are owed (like when the bottled wine is being kept in the Bonded Warehouse within the winery). When wine leaves the Bonded Warehouse for the Tax Paid room, it is out of bond, and becomes taxable.
+ Wastewater
use slotted floor drains (trench drains), minimum of 6" wide--the wider the better!
the wastewater is loaded with suspended solids (it smells!)
refer to book: Winery Utilities: Planning, Design and Operation by by David R. Storm
continued later (Fermentation is next!)..
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