Paetzold équipement

What our devices contain, above all, is time. Time spent observing and understanding wine professionals – their doubts, beliefs and needs. Established in your wine-producing region, in touch with those who ask them for efficient solutions, our project managers and wine technicians have learned all about the distinctive identity of your appellation. They operate as a partner alongside you.

For more than 25 years, Michael Paetzold has been envisioning and designing machines with a soul – the soul of wine. In our manufacturing workshop in Cadaujac, we devote all our know-how and all our care to serving two priorities: construction reliability, so that your wine treatment device delivers consistent performance from vintage to vintage; and robustness, so that your work tool lasts and can be passed on to the next generation. Once it is delivered, our after-sales team, based in your wine-producing region, is always on hand to intervene quickly, and to provide long-term support in correctly using and maintaining the unit.

It is in the winery at harvest time that the vintage, the grape varieties, the appellation and your work seal the alliance of your wine’s organoleptic promises, its ageing potential, its prospective creation of value. At Michael Paetzold, we think that no aspect of this potential must be altered by the winemaking process. All our wine treatment devices are validated by our oenologists to deliver the desired results in terms of respecting your wine’s physical and organoleptic properties.

What defines the quality of an oenotechnical process is that its only consequences are intended, and that it can adapt to the multitude of winemaking practices. That is why, in our machines, we strive to avoid excessive versatility or automation. The model you are equipped with aims for a precise, efficient oenotechnical result for your wine, not for any wine.

The wine treatment devices we sell are the same as those we use for our services. To design and build them, our engineers, oenologists and technical teams draw on job feedback from the wine technicians and project manager in our Paetzold agencies.

Everything we learn from these millions of hours of work in wineries are integrated into our models, proven over time, and tailored to winemaking practices in each appellation… This legacy of region-specific applications and improvements, and this body of oenotechnical knowledge associated with each device, is conveyed to you when we deliver your chosen unit.

With our wine treatment devices, we supply more than a user’s manual: we convey knowledge, experience and the awareness of how it is used. One of our wine technicians comes to familiarise you with your new tool, and assists you in achieving the best result. The technician knows your chosen device inside-out, as he uses the same model for our services. He also knows your specific technical requirements, because he works in your wine-producing region. You thus benefit from the same know-how as our teams apply for our oenotechnical services.

At Michael Paetzold, our sense of service is applied everywhere. In the accuracy with which we listen, understand and convey your request, through to on-site execution of the job. In the know-how, availability, working discipline and punctuality of our sales and technical teams. In our creative ability if a special request calls for a new and effective response… We can thus give you the same attention, care and rigour from the first to the last volume of wine treated.

Your wine treatment device is the product of a process combining scientific knowledge, an R&D programme, and processes patented by Michael Paetzold (several dozen registered to date). Some of our models provide solutions with no equivalent on the market: controlling dissolved gases with the De(o)s process, applied to vinification and ageing; controlling humidity in the winery with Syrus…