Bad grapes only lead to sour wine, and wineries know they must be discarded before they ruin the batch. Yet, even in Northern California’s multi-million dollar wine industry, separating good grapes from bad is still done by hand. That’s why one local winery now employs a single machine capable of doing the sorting work of a dozen people.
The device is known as the Delta Rflow high flow rate sorting table, and it was built by Bucher Vaslin. It measures about ten feet long and utilizes high speed photography to quickly cull two tons of freshly-picked grapes in just 12 minutes.
via Gizmodo
January 14, 2014
