TankNET^® in the Press

Wine Business Monthly

Artificial Intelligence Makes Its Debut in Cellar Software

Published: September 2025 , By: Sarah Brown

Winemakers have enough to worry about. Juggling multiple projects and checklists, throughout the course of the year, means it is essential to have the right cellar management system. Whereas previous iterations functioned primarily as an alternative to paper records and Excel sheets, modernized cellar software is acting less like a records-keeper and more like a predictive, personal assistant for winemakers.

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Wine Business Monthly

Breaking New Ground at Inglenook

Published: May 2023 , By: Andrew Adams

Historic Property Poised for Next Century Thanks to New Production Winery

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Wine Business Monthly

Luxury Winery with Space for Custom Crush

Published: November 2022 , By: Andrew Adams

Technical review: In early August, winemaker Ray McKee was contemplating another harvest in Washington from his office located at the new Trothe winery in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA near the city of Prosser, Wash.

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Wine Business Monthly

Technical Spotlight: Aperture Cellars

Published: April 2020 , By: Stacy Briscoe

TankNET helps save 2019 Vintage during Kincade fire evacuations.

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Wine Business Monthly

The Case for Dedicated Pumps

Published: January 2020 , By: Jim Gordon

Tanks equipped with their own pumps make better wine using less labor, say convinced winemakers.

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Wines and Vines

Technical Spotlight: Riboli Family Winery

Published: July 2017 , By: Andrew Adams

Paso Robles winery designed to be flexible and require little manpower.

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Wine Business Monthly

Innovative Fermentation Technology at Palmaz Vineyard

Published: March 2017 , By: Paul Franson

An Acrolon PM-4000 controller at each tank provides local control and link to TankNET web-server for projected visualizations, remote management and advanced data-mining by FELICS.

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Innovation+Quality Awards

TankNET Honored with Innovation Award at IQ

Published: March 2017

The TankNET PM-4000 is an intuitive touch-screen controller capable of managing complex cellar environments, chiller and boiler equipment and myriad other plant machinery.

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Practical Winery and Vineyard

Rodney Strong Wine Estates: New vineyards yield grapes for red blend.

Published: 2015 Special Edition , By: Don Neil

During the cooling mode, both the upper and lower jackets provide cooling based on a TankNET® controller activating chilled glycol supply and return solenoid valves.

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Practical Winery and Vineyard

Halter Ranch Vineyard: Original design elements offer maximum flexibility.

Published: Winter 2013 , By: Bill Sheffer

TankNET® thermostat on fermenter provides automatic heating and cooling, brix entry and networking over 115VAC power to TankNET® browser/smart phone accessible control software.

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Wines and Vines

Winemaker Interview: Amanda Cramer

Published: July 2010 , By: Laurie Daniel

TankNET thermostats are physically wired to the temperature sensors and the glycol valve control system, but they speak wirelessly to our server, so we didn’t have to wire each and every tank back to some central location, which is really nice. Temperature readings can be viewed and thermostat settings can be changed at the thermostat itself or from the computer.

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Practical Winery and Vineyard

Silver Oak Cellars: Technology and brand legacy interwoven in new facility

Published: September 2009 , By: Tom Taylor

We installed the TankNET system for temperature control, and have been very pleased with the functionality.

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Practical Winery and Vineyard

New fermentors for gentle handling

Published: February 2008 , By: Tina Vierra

The winemakers are very pleased to have automated control of heating/cooling and pumpovers. The system can be set for all-heat, all-cool, or automated rotation of temperatures.

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Vineyard and Winery Management

V. Sattui Winery, The family dream comes true

Published: October 2007 , By: Christopher Sawyer

...these hip high-tech devices allow the winemaking team to monitor and control the fermentation status of each batch either in the cellar or from off-site locations via the internet.

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Practical Winery and Vineyard

Blending efficiency with quality

Published: February 2007 , By: Tim Ryan

TankNET® software provides birds' eye view of Scheid cellar operations. Includes tank temperatures, lot codes, brix measurements, and pump-overs. Web browser interface enables winemakers to manage fermentations from any location, including changing set-points, scheduling pump-overs, and viewing fermentation graphs.

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Fortune

The Grapes of Math

Published: August 2006 , By: Kate Bonamici

Can high-tech tools help make better wine? Some Silicon Valley refugees think so.

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Vineyard and Winery Management

Look , Ma! No (New) Wires

Published: December 2004 , By: Marne Coggan

Network Your Cellar Through Existing Power Lines

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Vineyard and Winery Management

Sophisticated Technology Helps Winemakers Control Temperatures

Published: December 2004 , By: Paul Franson

Paul Franson surveys the technology that helps winemakers control, tank fermentation temperatures.

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