Being off-the-grid means we don’t have access to inexhaustible power. That means we have to think about the equipment we can use and how to do things. For example we don’t pump our wines, rather we lift wine tanks with our propane powered forklift and let suction move wine from tank to tank or from tank to the bottling machine. We have a standby generator for when the Sun don’t shine.
The main power hungry periods are during crush – and that’s done during the day when the sun is at its highest, so the sun crushes our grapes.