Wine Transfer Pumps
In vintage wine making, processed grape juice eventually ends up in a fermenting vat, a wood container of varying gallons. It could be a cask or a vat as large as many thousands of gallons. How to move this volume is the job of a wine pump. Pumps are devices that move liquids by a certain mechanical action. Everything including a bellows type pump to centrifugal hand pumped devices were used to move wine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are wine juice pumps and there are wine “must” pumps that move unfiltered fluid.