A modest sign marks the entrance to Rack & Riddle

Our guide at Rack & Riddle, Mark Garaventa, V.P. of Business Development

Cages filled with fermenting wine in the bottle

A cage being filled with a sparkling rosé

The bottles are stacked to overlap and make use of the available space

Note the crown caps sealing the bottle during fermentation

The cages allow the bottles to be moved safely and efficiently

This machine automatically riddles an entire cage of wine by moving a small amount every so often.

These smaller units are manually operated but perform the same function as the larger units

Producing a sparkling wine requires a lot of special machinery to disgorge the yeast and refill the bottle

Bottles of sparkling are inserted upside-down into this bath to freeze the yeast in the neck of the bottle

Looking through the holes, you can see the coolant underneath

A labeling machine that applies a special adhesive to label the cold, wet bottles

An old riddling rack—how some sparkling is still made—where the bottle is turned a small amount each day to allow the yeast to settle in the neck of the bottle

Part of the automated bottling line

Part of the automated bottling line

Automated bottler

Where smaller lots of wine are produced

Tanks of all sizes, small...

..large...

…to huge, 4-story high jacketed tank

Each tank is individually temperature controlled