CHICO, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s CanDo co-packing platform is expanding its canning and beverage manufacturing capabilities for wineries, wine brands, and producers developing wine-based beverages.
CanDo currently works with and has manufacturing experience supporting some of the nation’s largest wine producers, bringing Sierra Nevada’s decades of large-scale beverage manufacturing expertise to an increasingly diverse range of wine products and package formats.
Strategically located in Chico, California, between major wine-producing regions in California, Oregon, and Washington, CanDo offers West Coast wine producers access to a large-scale manufacturing platform with the infrastructure to support both traditional canned wine and more complex wine-based products.
From straightforward canned wine to wine-based cocktails, spritzes, and ready-to-drink products, CanDo can support programs that extend well beyond simply filling finished wine into a can.
Capabilities include:
High-speed canning at speeds of up to 800 cans per minute
Still, sparkling, and formulated wine products
Batching and ingredient handling for wine cocktails, spritzes, and other formulated beverages
Pasteurization capabilities for products requiring additional process control
Wine and spirits handling for more complex alcoholic beverage formulations
Automated variety packing for mixed-SKU and multi-flavor packages
Secondary packaging across a wide range of can and package configurations
Integrated quality, production, and supply-chain systems designed for commercial-scale programs
CanDo also operates with a comprehensive suite of alcoholic beverage licensing and certifications, allowing the facility to support a broad range of beverage categories and customer requirements. Certifications and programs include SQF, Organic, Kosher, and GFCO gluten-free certification, providing brands with an established quality and compliance platform as they scale.
These capabilities allow wine producers to explore formats that can be difficult to execute within a traditional winery environment. A program may be as simple as moving an existing wine into a convenient canned format, or as complex as producing a multi-SKU wine cocktail line requiring batching, additional ingredients, pasteurization, spirits handling, specialty packaging, and automated variety pack assembly.
Built for brands ready to scale
CanDo is designed to support established and growing beverage companies seeking a long-term manufacturing partner, with the production capacity, quality systems, alcoholic beverage licensing, technical capabilities, and packaging flexibility necessary to support meaningful commercial volumes.
For wineries looking beyond the traditional bottle—or brands developing the next generation of wine-based RTDs—CanDo provides access to an established beverage manufacturing platform capable of taking increasingly complex products to commercial scale.
Interested in discussing a canned wine or wine-based beverage project?
Learn more and connect with the CanDo team at SierraNevada.com/CanDo.