Gyropalette

A gyropalette represents a computer-controlled bottle shaking rack driven by electric motors, which shifts the (dead) yeast sediment into the neck of the bottle after the second fermentation. These machines shake continuously day and night and reduce the shaking phase or remuage by hand in traditional shaking towers from 2 - 3 months to 1 - 2 weeks. In addition, the jogging of 1 million bottles with jogging desks, for example, requires a working area of approx. 2,000 square metres, whereas Gyropalettes only require approx. 400 square metres. Manual jogging is also associated with high personnel costs. A gyropallet can therefore offer many advantages, especially for a large champagne house.
A patent for a machine à remuer was registered as early as 1875, but the machines did not offer satisfactory results until the early 1970s. Today, gyropallet machines are a matter of course at many houses. At the renowned house of G.H. Mumm, for example, approx. 80% of the approx. 11 million bottles per year have been riddled by machine since 1985.