As grapes vibrate across the MOG separating table, seeds and shot berries fall through the screen. The bar in the front is a newly added air knife to remove light material as the grapes fall. The relatively new processing station at Chateau Ste. Michelle’s Canoe Ridge Estate winery—with its one-of-a kind system for removing material other than grape—has an impressive list of attributes. Unloading and receiving grapes is way faster, more material other than grape (known as MOG) is removed, and grapes are handled more gently. But the bottom line is that wine quality is improved, say Chateau Ste. Michelle […]