We offer logistical and infrastructure support with blending and bottling facilities at Jandakot, 20 minutes south of Perth CBD. Our premises incorporate large-scale climate controlled bulk storage facilities and a state of the art bottling and labelling line.
Wine can be transported in bulk liquid form, reducing transport costs between the winery gate and storage and trans-shipment facilities in Perth.
The benefits are:
- State of the art bottling, corking and labelling line (including Stelvins)
- Secure, pallet and barrel wine storage
- Temperature controlled premises controlled at a mean of 18°C
- 6000 extending to 12000 square metre storage facility
- Carton picking and dispatch service
- Export preparation and consolidation
- Container packing and unpacking
- Computerised inventory management
- Public registered weighbridge
Existing major components are:
- Environmentally controlled pallet and bulk wine storage
- Wine blending, bottling and labelling facility with full HACCP accreditation
- Off-site laboratory facility
- Bulk tank storage
Future components are:
- On-site analytical laboratory facility co-located with the static bottling line
- Addition of temperature controlled 3,342 square metre facility (14,000 pallet total capacity)
- Purchasing of bulk premium wines, blending and bottling
- The development of generic brands and cleanskin packaging
- Establishment of export markets to the USA, Europe and Asian
- Provision of bottling and storage services for the Olive Oil Industry
Environmentally controlled bulk packaged wine storage
 
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Total Wine Solutions site is 2.9466 hectares with 5,418 square metres of current warehouse facility. A further 2,000 square metres of the facility houses a bottling line and bulk wine storage tanks. The land capacity allows for the development of additional facilities such as a further bottling line and extra bulk and environmentally controlled wine storage as future needs dictate.
The entire warehouse facility has been converted to insulated storage, of which 2,076 square metres of this has been further converted to temperature-controlled storage. This provides a total storage capacity of 7,000 pallets.
Total Wine Solutions is marketing its bulk storage space at competitive rates in return for long-term storage commitments. Not only is this a prudent strategy to encourage high space occupancy, we consider a long-term partnership with the wine producers to be a key element of our strategy.
Wine blending and bottling capacity
  
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Total Wine Solutions has a dedicated static bottling line at Jandakot alongside our bulk wine storage facility. This allows wineries to ship wines in bulk tankers to Perth for bottling. The bulk wine is then transferred into receiver tanks, either for short-term holding or for subsequent blending. Once palletised, wines are either held in the bulk palletised storage facility, or dispatched
For the winery the benefits are:
- Technologically advanced, flexible bottling capabilities with full HACCP accreditation.
- No need to transport packaging materials to wineries (eg. Pallets, cartons, bottles, labels, corks etc.)
- Reduced transport and handling costs, from the winery to the end-user
- Improved quality assurance and integrity of wine through quality control reporting in a dedicated analytical laboratory
- Competitive pricing to secure long-term relationships with producers
- Reduced disruption to winery operations compared with on-site bottling runs
The bottling line provides wine producers variable bottling capabilities to enable choice and flexibility to perform a complete or partial bottling run. The bottling capacity is currently 3,000 bottles per hour, with plans to increase to 8,800 bottles per hour. The bottling line handles variable bottle sizes up to the 1.5L Magnums.
The fixed nozzle-rinsing machine incorporates an internal bottle wash through means of sterilised water or gas, utilising simple or double treatment rinsing. Counter pressure filling reduces the risks of contamination and oxidation of wine, through the pre-evacuation of air within the bottle maintaining consistent filling levels.
Prior to cork insertion a negative vacuum is drawn from the bottle to take out excess oxygen, guaranteeing cork depth and consistency. All cork styles are compatible including ROPP, Cork, and Synthetic cork stoppers. The capsule distribution system ensures accurate cap placement with a heat shrink system to shrink PVC caps to the bottleneck. Spinning turrets on the capsule dispenser ensure effective smoothing of metal-based capsules and Stelvins to the bottleneck.
The labelling applications enable wines to feature labels front and back with allowances to include medal placements
Off-site laboratory facility
Currently we use a technician with 25 years experience and a degree of applied science in Wine Science who performs all pre and post bottling analysis for TWS and contract analysis for many wineries in the Swan Valley, Perth Hills and Chittering Valley in a contract laboratory.
Equipment available - pH meter, autotitrator, UV/Vis spectrophotometer, apparatus for SO2, alcohol and VA, flame photometer, centrifuge, autoclave, microscope. Standard industry methods of analysis include pH, acidity, free and total SO2, alcohol, volatile acidity, residual sugar, CO2, sodium, potassium, protein and tartrate stabilities, chromatography, enzymatic analysis for malic acid and glucose/fructose, microbiological detection for yeast.
Bulk tank storage
The bulk wine is then transferred into receiver tanks, either for short-term holding or for subsequent blending. It is planned to have a temperature controlled (5°C) tank farm on site in the next stage of development.
HACCP is an internationally recognised means of assuring food safety from harvest to consumption. Recognised by "Codex Alimentarius" and other leading food safety agencies, HACCP has become the market standard for food safety world wide. Food manufacturers and private label retailers are insisting that their suppliers and co-packers implement HACCP in their own facilities.
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