G&D Chillers has been around for about thirty years. We started in 1993, by a gentleman named Dan Smith. He was a refrigeration technician in Northern California, but he was also a great farmer, and he recognized real quick the need for a good quality package chiller. And so here we are. Basically, what we’ve got here today is just a good example of our standard offerings of chillers for the wine industry. We’ve got some smaller units over here. A very popular model of ours is the Fire & Ice. It is a very rigid portable design. Dan built this. I think we’ve been doing this for about twenty years now. And there’s really nothing out there on the market like it. You can hook up to up to four tanks and then it does have, as of a few years ago, we’ve added aux ports here so you can actually hard plumb to it or add an extra set of quick connects right here. And it’s nice, it’s very mobile. You push it through the winery. It’s designed to go, you know, bouncing around a busy winery during harvest. And, it works great for people. The Fire & Ice will work good for a smaller start up. This chiller is awesome. It has the ability to heat and cool. You know, you obviously are going to need some temperature control on the chilling side. But what this offers is the ability to heat as well. You can, you know, kick start your fermentation, bring that temperature up on your wine. If you’re going to bottling, you need a little bit hotter of a bottle so your labels stick. This is your heater. But then, aside from that, you know, just the versatility to be able to chill and heat, it’s such a great, great chiller and it’s got, you know, a lot of innovations over the years, but we still have the same ones out there from, you know, pushing twenty years ago that are still just getting beat up and they’re working great. The chiller in the middle will be more of a larger production scenario type chiller. You might still operate the Fire & Ice, obviously, like I described, but this would be the heart of your chilling at your facility. And this, you know, this would be a more industrial type unit that is going to give you some redundancy which is big in production. You know, process cooling wine, you need to be able to rely on your chiller. And the great thing about this unit is that it does have two stages of chilling. It will run on an as needed basis, you know. So we’re drawing a lesser amount of electricity if it’s not needed. There’s a lot of fluctuation in load in a winery, so we want to be able to do that. In addition to that, these compressors are reciprocating compressors that actually unload as well. So if your demand at any given time is such that you don’t need, even the full capacity of one compressor, it’s going to kick out some cylinders and operate at even lower capacity. So that’s great. It has vertical discharge there. We’ve got four fan motors on this that are variable speed motors, and that adds to its efficiency. They also individually will kick on and off as needed. And, it’s a great great unit for a more, you know, just a larger scale winery. You’re going to go into it, you need some serious chilling and, you know, you’re going to produce a lot of wine. That’s a great option for you. Lots of efficiencies built in. This unit right here is our dual seven. I sell more dual sevens than any other chiller. This is a great place to start for the small winery or the winery with, you know, maybe some plans for growth. It works good, in a scenario where you might start a little smaller but not need its total capacity because it has that redundancy just like this larger unit. You also will see two compressors here. You know, if your demand’s low, only one of them is going to run. If your demand is high, both of them are running together. They will cycle back and forth over the life of the chiller for equal run time for each circuit. They are just a great chiller. You know, if you start out small, you want to grow into it, it’s going to take you pretty far. And, you know like every other chiller we provide, you know, if you get to the point where you know you need to expand, you exceed this unit’s capacity or even this five horse back here, they’re all modular in design. You can add to them. So, it’s a great great standard package line of offerings we have for the winery industry. Contact Us