Wine - Bioscience and Water Filtration Division | Parker US
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Producers of wine, both old and new have partnered with Parker Bioscience Filtration for over 30 years to ensure their process and quality needs are achieved. The perfect wine should be visually clear, flavorful and maintain its stability over long periods of time. Traditional methods for clarification, such as settling and racking, often don't remove all the particulate and spoilage organisms, producing a cloudy, unstable wine. Clarification and stabilization using microfiltration ensure the removal of particulate and organisms down to 0.45µm, creating a beautifully clear and stable wine without altering the delicate flavor.

Wine Selection Guide

Explore our portoflio of winery applications to find the filtration product that's most effective for your manufacturing process.

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Explore our portoflio of filtration products for your wine applications.

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Trap Filtration and Crystal Removal

Visible clarity is a sought-after characteristic of good wine. Trap filtration removes suspended particulate to ensure clear wine suitable for intermediate storage. It also reduces costs by lowering the workload of downstream stabilization filters.

Stabilization, Standardization and Tank Removal

In order to protect wine quality during storage or transportation, yeast and other microbial loadings should be reduced. Parker Bioscience Filtration developed its PREPOR range of wine filters to excel in tank transfer applications. The PREPOR NG filter is an ideal choice for increased microbial security, fine particle retention and has the strength necessary to withstand repeated cleaning and backwash regeneration.

Service Water, Process Water and Product Water

  • Service water: Particulate filters protect equipment from fouling with high levels of particulates present in the municipal water supplies.
  • Product water: Particulate filters protect water treatment equipment from rapid fouling due to high levels of particulate present in ground/municipal source feed water, allowing rapid generation of high volumes of product water.
  • Process water: Filters prevent reinfection of wine with waterborne spoilage organisms and pathogens.

Liquid Filter Integrity Testing

Monitor performance of your membrane filters to ensure they are not damaged, fit for purpose, and capable of providing the necessary degree of microbial control. Effective final stabilization of water is assured only when filters have been selected properly, used inside the recommended limits and haven’t suffered damage during use. It is essential that filter performance is monitored and results recorded. This is achieved through routine integrity testing using the BEVCHECK range of instruments.

Final Stabilization

In order to produce stable wine which protects and develops flavour once packaged, the presence of spoilage organisms must be eliminated. They can ruin wine by causing off flavours and haze or cloudiness, with contamination from strongly fermenting yeasts causing bottle explosions. Parker's BEVPOR filters use an inert PES membrane that provides validated retention to typical spoilage organisms without impacting the wine's taste or colour profiles.

Fine Wine Polishing and Filter Membrane Protection

Mature or fortified wine is already physically, chemically and micro-biologically stable and only requires a final polish to improve clarity and to remove any yeast and bacteria which may be present. Additionally, final membrane filtration is typically the most expensive stage of filtration. Installing pre-filters to remove suspended particles and reduce microbial loading can reduce the costs of replacement final filters.

Tank Vent Filtration

To ensure your wine does not succumb to microbial contamination, it is essential that all gas entering the storage vessels is sterile. Gas pressure is typically low during most tank vent filtration applications, so the flow performance of the filter and the size of the filter element is important for performance and cost-savings.

Product Purge

Product purging involves the displacement of wine from tanks and pipes using compressed gas. Compressed gasses may harbour potentially harmful micro-organisms, which could lead to product contamination. Sterile filtration of the compressed gas ensures all wine purging does not introduce bacteria to the product, maintaining the wine's stability. Parker can work with you to identify the most appropriate filter selection for your product purge applications.

Food & Beverage Knowledge & Resources

As part of our commitment to sharing and promoting industry best practice, we have created a technical content hub around sterile filtration and microfiltration solutions. Browse our food and beverage related white papers, technical articles, case studies, videos and application notes.

Bioprocessing Knowledge & Resources

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Bioscience N.A. 

Parker Bioscience & Water Filtration
2340 Eastman Ave.
Oxnard, California
93030 United States
Ph: +1 (805) 604-3400
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Bioscience EMEA 

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Ltd
Durham Road, Birtley
County Durham
DH3 2SF United Kingdom
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befe.birtley.support@support.parker.com

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