Winery Sanitation at UC Davis

Attended an all-day winery sanitation seminar at UC Davis last week. While the latest thinking in cleaners and sanitizers does not make for the most exciting posts (though, don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer that 80% of wine-making is keeping things clean!), thought I'd share some pictures of the sparkling new Robert Mondavi research winery up at Davis. Pretty spectacular; the winery was just off the classroom and we had some time in the afternoon to kick the tires, talk about design (mostly from a sanitation point of view) and get a demo of the latest bio-luminescence swabbing techniques for validating cleanliness protocols. Awesome!