Routine inspection conducted:
Facility provides tools/equipment necessary for patrons to make their own wine
Process (no changes to process)
Patrons are given a large plastic container that contains the juice, which is then transferred to a large glass container where their juice ferments into wine. Each large glass container is labelled for each customer. Once the wine is ready to be bottled, customers bring their own wine bottles to the facility.
The customers are responsible washing and rinsing their own wine bottles prior to bringing them to the premises. Once at the premises, customers must sanitize their wine bottles with potassium metabisulphate (which is available at the sink on-site). The clean and sanitized bottles are then attached to the large glass containers of wine via a plastic tube that then uses a gravity-feed system to fill the bottles.
The food grade plastic tubes, the glass container, air locks, and the plastic container (and its lid) are all washed, rinsed, and sanitized by the facility using a combination of diversol (pink chemical, chlorine based) and potassium metabisulphate. All corks are one time use, kept in the glass bowl.
General
Customers are only allowed to taste their own wine (not anyone else's, nor is there any wine prepared by the store for general public tasting).
All handwash stations equipped with liquid soap, paper towels, hot/cold running water.
All items that come into contact with the wine/juice are stored off the floor
Diversol (pink chemical) in spray bottle was at 100 ppm chlorine residual.
General sanitation excellent |