Recover Lost Volume with our Lees Recovery System

We offer several options and technologies for lees and juice clarification including High-Solids Crossflow, RVDF and offsite recovery service. For tote volumes we will pick up and process at our local facility, for larger volumes we can provide scaled mobile solutions.

Our customers use our Lees Recovery service to:

  1. Recover cold settled must at harvest time.
  2. Recover white and red wine lees following fermentation.

We typically process Lees at our production facility, but can mobilize and process at your winery. During harvest we have delivery trucks running daily weekdays doing pickups and drop offs.

For those wineries who would like to have juice or wine lees picked up, but do not want returned, ask about our Lees for Credit program. We accept quality juice lees and give your winery a filtration credit applicable to our services.

We operate two RDVF units:

RVDF Unit 1 – Spadoni RVDF – 2.5 square meters – typical flow rates – 400 lph for white juice, 200 – 300 lph for red/white wine lees, 200 lph for ice wine juice.

RVDF Unit 2 – Spadoni RVDF –5 square meters – typical flow rates – 800 lph for white juice, 400 – 600 lph for red/white wine lees, 200 lph for ice wine juice.

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Wineries typically lose 5–10% of total yield in juice and wine lees. We typically recover 60–75% of this lost volume. A 5000 case winery has 4500–9000 litres of loss, which at $2000/ton for grapes, translates to $18000–$36000 of loss.