Vendor News

Wine Confidential (www.wineconfidential.com) – an innovative online wine sales platform, is making a big splash in the wine distribution industry by focusing on small wineries – and by helping them cut out the distribution system altogether.
Levensohn Vineyards in Napa Valley announced its partnership with Authentic Vision to deploy the company’s patented, copy-proof 3D fingerprint on the winery’s bottles. The system is designed to ensure consumers that the product they’ve purchased is genuine. The technology is embedded in a small label that “cannot be reproduced and that is accessible from any smartphone.
BSG introduced two new yeasts for grapes picked later in harvest, VP5 and Premium Zinfandel, which the supplier reports also work well as cofermentors. VP5 is an isolate from the province of Valpolicella in Italy and suited for producing “young, fresh red wines enhancing fragrant aromas.
Criveller is now offering an augerless receiving hopper that is designed to move large volumes of grapes, up to 80 tons per hour, gently. According to Criveller, the machine employs “helical rollers that hold the fruit and slowly doses it onto the attached stainless steel augerless conveyance system.” The system can be used to move whole clusters as well as machine harvested grapes.
Sentera updated its AgVault 2.0 mobile iOS app featuring a battery-swap capability that enables the operators of unmanned aerial vehicles to plan flights of any duration and “seamlessly accommodates any number of battery swap outs.” The supplier reports the system recalls the exact coordinates where a UAV had to stop a job because of low battery power.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Sept. 27, 2016) – Tractor Supply Company, in partnership with National 4-H Council, is announcing the October launch of the 2016 Fall Paper Clover Campaign.
VinNOW is now offering wireless EMV (smart chip) credit card readers. The company also offers standard EMV services for what it describes is a very competitive monthly cost and small set-up fee.
Wine Management Systems partnered with simplyCMS to offer a cloud-based, website, e-commerce and POS platform for wineries. According to the two companies, the new system is designed to be used “from the field to distribution to DtC.
For its third year importing the beautiful tanks of Nico Velo, IPak Wine installed at Clos Solene in Paso Robles and Zaca Mesa Winery in Santa Ynez the Eiffel tanks. These tanks are 40hL and meant for red wine fermentation and aging.
PRESS RELEASE   The soul of Lugana, the heart of Valpolicella: 75 hectares of pure wine-making quality that Zenato has decided make a perfect match with Sacmi–developed labelling solutions from the renowned KUBE range.
Astra Digital Marketing Services, a digital marketing agency dedicated to being a game changer in the direct to consumer channel of the wine industry, has announced new services that will drive winery DTC and digital marketing efforts.
 SevenFifty, the online platform for the wholesale alcohol industry, today introduced Online Ordering, a first-of-its-kind ordering platform that enables buyers to create, track, and manage orders to multiple distributors.
Nomacorc, a member of Vinventions™ and the world’s leading producer of premium wine closures, unveils a new category of closures with unparalleled standards in performance, design and sustainability.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE>>> Saint Helena, CA, September 14, 2016. Levensohn Vineyards, producers of a premium Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon wine, is the first vintner in the world to fight wine counterfeiters by using Authentic Vision's patented, copy-proof 3D fingerprint. This security solution assures customers of the authenticity of the wine they have purchased.
AUKLAND, New Zealand – Sept. 12, 2016 – Cin7, a leading innovator in cloud-based inventory management, has announced key updates for its integration with QuickBooks Online by Intuit. QuickBooks is the dominant accounting software used by the small and medium businesses targeted by Cin7 as users of its highly integrated solution.
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