Source: foodprocessing.com.au --- Saturday, September 24, 2016
Established in 1930, Barossa-based Tarac Technologies is Australia’s largest producer of high-quality grape spirit, which it sells back to the wine industry or to beverage producers around the globe, including more than 50 of Australia’s boutique distillers. The company processes 40 million litres of distillation wine and lees and more than 120,000 tonnes of grape marc at its sites in Nuriootpa, Berri and Griffith, to ultimately produce about 10 million litres of grape spirit a year. CEO Jeremy Blanks said high-strength grape alcohol was a core product across a number of styles, including neutral grape spirit, brandy spirit, fortifying spirit, matured brandy and industrial spirit. He said the craft spirit industry in Australia was still very small but it was growing fast, and Tarac offers these new producers a cost-effective, high-quality base spirit. “Grape spirit is not just grape spirit. If you’re using it for a gin, for example, you need the highest grade,” he said. “If you don’t have the very best quality, the flaws or the taints will come through in your end products.” Tarac currently exports up to 80% of its grape spirit primarily to North America and Europe, where much of it goes into brandy and the wine industry. One of the latest distillers to release a gin featuring Tarac spirit is Barossa Distilling Company , which launched the wine region’s first craft gin in July. Born out of winery Soul Growers , Barossa Distilling ...
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