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Welcome to the Barsotti Ranch in Apple Hill®
(Camino, CA) where all of our juices are hand-crafted in
small batches. Click here to see an
aerial photo of the ranch and juice operations. The tour
below will give you a good idea of just what it takes to
turn fresh, sun-ripened fruit into the tasty Barsotti juice
found in the produce section of your neighborhood store.
Feel free to contact us if you
have any questions or would like more information on
Barsotti Juices.
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We start with quality, hand-picked fruit and
vegetables from key areas of California, Oregon, and
Washington, including our own varieties from the Barsotti
Ranch and other Apple Hill® ranches.
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Fresh apples and carrots arrive weekly to the
Barsotti Ranch to begin the pressing and bottling process.
We use many varieties of apples in our blends -including
Golden Delicious, Fuji, Granny Smith, Gala, Gravenstein,
Macintosh, Mutsu, Red Delicious, Pink Lady ... and others. |
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We squeeze only the purest juice out of the
fruit in our large accordion-style presses. While we know
that we could get even more juice out of the fruit by
re-pressing and centrifuging – that process, while allowing
companies to be very efficient and churn out higher volume
of juice per ton of fruit – we believe that, the process
dilutes the flavor of the juice. And so we adhere to a very
strict first press policy – so that only the purest juice of
the fruit is allowed in the bottles. |
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The juice is flash pasteurized and then
pumped into one of many cold storage tanks located near the
bottling area. |
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The left over fruit and vegetable rind (also
called "pumice") is collected and shipped off to a farm
where it is fed to pigs and cattle. |
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In the secure bottling area, sterile bottles
are loaded into the filling system where the expiration date
and lot code is printed on each one. A sample of each
pressing is tested for quality by our Quality Assurance Department. We
ensure your safety by strictly adhering to all State and
Federal food safety guidelines. |
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Labels are applied by the automated labeling
machine to the front and back of each bottle. |
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After traveling down a conveyor system, the
filler dispenses just the right amount of freshly pressed
juice into each bottle before they are capped, cleaned,
dried, and boxed for shipping. |
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Cases of juice are immediately moved from
production into the cold storage facility and sorted by
customer and variety. We ensure quality and customer
satisfaction by only producing enough juice to fill each
order ... each day. |
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We use semi-trucks, bobtails, and vans to
deliver juice to our customers. Some juice travels back East
on refrigerated rail cars while other orders travel to
distribution hubs for disbursement. |
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And there we are ... in the refrigerated
display of your grocer's fresh produce section. |
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