In the upper part of these cellars, we have built a new modern, compact and efficient grapes reception room using the latest sorting technology such as optical sorting in addition to the hand sorting of the pickers in the vineyard.

This technology implies to have perfectly round intact berries which led us to buy vibrating hoppers instead of our former screw driving ones, less triturating the fruit. The grapes are then gently brought up to brand-new more efficient destemmers by conveyor a belt.

This very modern technology uses cameras linked to a computer that pictures the berries. A software sorts then the berries according to their shape, size and colour. After draining the free run juice and accurate desteming, the berries are spread thanks to another vibrating table on an horizontal conveyor belt that gives them a high constant speed. Knowing the trajectory of the berries, the computer selects the non-desired items such as petioles, pieces of leaves or stems thanks to the cameras and expulses them by shooting them by means of air valves. The good berries are then brought to the tank through an efficient pipes system.

We have wide choice of sorting parameters and can adapt them at any moment according to the grape variety (white or red) or to the parcel. This machine crafted for Mont-Redon can reach a 10 ton per hour flow out.