Low Brix, High Stakes: Cool Growing Season Solutions

What’s a winemaker to do when cool weather persists and Brix levels aren’t rising?Spring rains delayed the grape harvest by nearly a month, jeopardizing grape maturity as summer closed and read more

Winemaking Filtration

Hope for Stuck Fermentations in the Challenging 2022 Harvest Season

The historically high heat spike in early September resulted in an unusually high level of dehydrated fruit in what was otherwise looking to be a bumper crop in Northern California. Estimates indicate read more

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Smoke Taint 2020 - Advances in treatment - ARC Process

VA Filtration offers a brand-new process for the reduction of smoke taint from wine (ARC Process), removing not only the free taint creating the smoke aromatics, but also the bound taint from aff read more

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New Multi-Pronged Smoke Taint Removal Process Patented

Climate change presents real challenges to wine producing locations when wildfires strike where wine grapes are grown. Essentially sucking in the smoke compounds floating in the air through their skin read more

Volatile Acidity and Ethyl Acetate Reduction

THE VA FILTRATION EXPERIENCE VA Filtration offers the wine industry 18 years of experience in the removal of volatile acidity from wine.  With our team of highly experienced field technicians an read more

Smoke Taint and the handling of wine that may be impacted

To our employees, friends, customers and vendors impacted by the recent wild fires, we are grateful to be part of such a strong and unified community.  The losses incurred by some are unimaginabl read more

pH REDUCTION SYSTEMS FOR WINE OR JUICE

VA Filtration designs, sells, rents and offers for service pH reduction systems for wine or juice. Using a combo membrane/ion exchange process or direct ion-exchange, there is a system to suit every b read more

SMOKE TAINT - LESSONS LEARNED FROM 2008

With all the wild fires about, the question of smoke taint is on every winemakers lips.  Is it in the fruit?  Will it affect my wine?  How do I remove it?  Based on 2008 experience read more

VA and Alcohol adjustment combined

Ever wondered if you can reduce VA and ethanol in a wine at the same time?  Well yes you can - as long as this takes place at a DSP facility.  VA Filtrations latest alcohol reduction facilit read more

MEMSTAR - The gentlest option for on-site alcohol reduction

Do you have a DSP license? Would you like to have the ability to reduce alcohol in wine on-site?  Do you want a system that focuses on wine quality and efficiency?   With the US patent pe read more