Core Production Steps of Wine & Fruit Wine
The six core processes
Custom Complete Solutions for All Types of Wine & Fruit Wine Products
From glass wine bottles, PET bottles, aluminum cans, stand-up pouches to bag-in-box containers, Zhonglian Machinery provides fully customized wine & fruit wine turnkey production lines. Suitable for grape wine, mulberry wine, plum wine, fruit liqueur and brandy, our integrated lines adopt constant-temperature fermentation, multi-stage aging, clarification stabilization and sterile filling tech to guarantee consistent wine quality, pure fruit aroma and long shelf life. Covering full workflows from fruit pretreatment, fermentation, blending to finished packaging, our stable high-efficiency equipment supports flexible switching of multiple packaging styles.
Comprehensive Advantages of the Production Line
- Wide Compatibility: One production line supports glass bottles, PET bottles, aluminum cans, stand-up pouches and other packaging formats, and easily switches between grape wine, mulberry wine, plum wine and other fruit wine products, with optional distillation units for brandy production.
- Controllable Quality: Fully enclosed production throughout the process. Precision temperature-controlled fermentation ensures stable alcohol content and flavor, and multi-stage clarification + cold stabilization technology ensures clear wine body and long shelf life without sediment.
- User-friendly Operation: Touchscreen human-machine interface with visual parameter adjustment, real-time monitoring of fermentation temperature, sugar content and other indicators, easy to master even for new operators. The system supports formula storage and one-click switching for multi-variety production.
- Flexible Capacity: Flexible equipment configuration to match small craft workshops and large-scale factories, with a wide range of capacity options from 500 to 24,000 bottles per hour to meet different investment scales.
- Convenient Maintenance: The food-grade stainless steel body is easy to clean and corrosion-resistant, with universal spare parts and low later maintenance cost. The fully matched CIP cleaning system ensures long-term hygienic and stable production operation.
Main Packaging Formats
The production line features strong compatibility and flexible switching between packaging formats, meeting demands of supermarkets, catering, retail and other market channels:
- Glass Bottles: The most classic and mainstream packaging for wine and fruit wine, covering 187ml, 375ml, 500ml, 750ml and other standard specifications. With excellent sealing performance and premium display effect, it matches corking and capsule shrinking equipment, with a capacity of 2,000 to 24,000 bottles per hour.
- Aluminum Cans: Portable and light-proof packaging, mainly for sparkling fruit wine and ready-to-drink fruit liqueurs, covering 250ml, 330ml specifications. Matched with high-speed can filling and seaming units, it features high automation and is suitable for high-volume standardized production.
- Bag-in-Box: Large-capacity aseptic packaging, covering 3L, 5L, 10L specifications. With long shelf life after opening, it is suitable for family sharing and catering channel bulk fruit wine products, matched with special aseptic bag filling equipment.
Wine & Fruit Wine Production Line & Production Process Guide
Wine and fruit wine products, represented by grape wine, mulberry wine, plum wine and fermented fruit liqueurs, feature natural fruit aroma, mellow taste and rich nutritional value, enjoying growing demand in the global healthy alcohol beverage market. Zhonglian Machinery supplies fully automatic wine and fruit wine production lines integrating raw fruit pre-treatment, temperature-controlled fermentation, aging, clarification, blending, sterilization, filling and packaging. With mature constant-temperature fermentation and multi-stage stabilization technology, the lines are compatible with multiple fruit raw materials and packaging formats, and cover capacities from small-batch craft brewing to large-scale commercial manufacturing, widely applied in mass production of various fruit wine and brandy products.
Wine & Fruit Wine Standard Production Process
Raw Fruit Materials → Crushing → Tank Charging → Ingredient Dosing → Primary Fermentation → Pomace Separation → Secondary Fermentation → 1st Racking → Sealed Aging for 2–3 Months → 2nd Racking → Full-tank Sealed Aging for 4–6 Months → 3rd Racking → Clarification Treatment → Filtration → Blending → Storage & Maturation for 1–3 Months → Fine Filtration → Bottling → Finished Products
The production of wine and fruit wine follows a rigorous staged fermentation and aging process. Selected raw fruits are first crushed and transferred into temperature-controlled fermentation tanks, dosed with specialized yeast and auxiliary ingredients for primary alcoholic fermentation.
After separating the wine liquid from fruit pomace and bottom lees, the liquid proceeds to secondary fermentation, followed by the first racking to remove precipitated impurities. The wine then goes through 2–3 months of sealed aging, after which a second racking is performed. It is then kept in fully sealed tanks for another 4–6 months of maturation, with a third racking to further purify the wine body.
Subsequently, the wine undergoes clarification treatment and multi-stage filtration, then is blended to standardize alcohol content, sugar-acid ratio and flavor profile. After 1–3 months of stabilized storage and a final fine filtration, the finished wine liquid is filled and sealed into containers to become final marketable products.
Main Equipment & Performance Features
The entire production line is mainly made of food-grade 304/316 stainless steel, with corrosion resistance, no sanitary dead corners and easy cleaning. Core electrical and pneumatic components are sourced from internationally renowned brands. Equipped with a PLC control system and touchscreen operation interface, it achieves a high degree of automation. It is also fitted with comprehensive safety devices including overload protection, automatic stop upon bottle jamming and cap shortage detection for safe and stable equipment operation.
It consists of floating washers, fruit sorting platforms, crushers, destemmers/destoners, juice extractors and sanitary delivery pumps. The system completes fruit cleaning, sorting, crushing and juice extraction with adjustable granularity, and delivers high-quality raw juice for the subsequent fermentation process. Optional distillation units are available for brandy production.
It consists of jacketed fermentation tanks, post-fermentation tanks, sealed aging storage tanks and automatic temperature control modules. The system realizes staged constant-temperature fermentation and sealed aging, with accurate real-time monitoring of fermentation parameters to ensure stable wine quality and layered, mellow flavor.
It consists of fining tanks, diatomaceous earth filters, membrane filtration units and cold stabilization cooling tanks. It completes multi-stage clarification and low-temperature stabilization treatment of wine liquid, ensuring long-term clear wine body without precipitation and stable product quality during circulation.
It consists of automatic blending tanks, duplex fine filters and sterile membrane filtration units. It completes precise formula blending and room-temperature sterile sterilization, ensuring accurate product indicators of alcohol, sugar and acid, and maximally retaining the original flavor of wine.
It consists of industrial water chillers, refrigerant storage tanks, circulating ice water pumps and supporting pipelines. It provides stable and precise cooling capacity for temperature-controlled fermentation, cold stabilization and low-temperature aging processes, ensuring stable fermentation efficiency and product quality.
It integrates bottle rinsing, constant-level filling and corking / capping, with linear and rotary structures available in multiple configurable models. Equipped with automatic capsule shrinking machines for glass wine bottles, it completes fully enclosed filling and sealing to avoid secondary contamination and ensure product food safety.
It includes light inspection equipment, bottle air dryers, inkjet / laser coders, self-adhesive labeling machines, fully automatic case packers and palletizers. The fully automatic workflow ensures neat packaging and clear product identification for finished wine and fruit wine products.
It performs full cleaning for all pipelines, tanks and equipment of the production line without disassembly, with automatic dosing and cycle control. It strictly meets the sanitary standards of the food and beverage industry and maintains long-term hygienic production conditions.
It includes sanitary product conveyors for semi-finished and finished products, covering transfer between all production sections. It realizes seamless and stable material delivery between processes and improves the overall operating efficiency of the line.
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Henan Zhonglian Enterprise covers a total area of over 6,000 square meters, with over 4,000 square meters of standardized industrial workshops and fixed assets of 20 million yuan. To ensure the processing quality of its food and beverage equipment, the company is equipped with over 30 advanced machines, including CNC machining centers, large hydraulic equipment, automatic polishing equipment, large shearing, bending, and rolling equipment, dynamic balancing equipment, physical performance testing equipment, hydrostatic testing equipment, and electrical safety testing instruments. The entire process, from design and sales to production and inspection, is managed using computerized programs.
