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After 5 years as the General Manager of Tonnellerie Radoux Norm Leighty has formed Norm Leighty, LLC, a sales representation company representing several suppliers of oak barrels, oak alternatives, tannins and used barrels.
Companies represented are Okanagan Barrel Works, makers of both French and American oak barrels and tanks located in Oliver, B.C., Canada.
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Press Release - January 28, 2010, MODESTO, CA--Oeneo Bouchage, manufacturer of the patented technical cork closure DIAM, has signed a long-term distribution agreement with leading USA supply chain company G3 Enterprises.
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ReCORK by Amorim, a North American-based wine cork recycling program sponsored by Amorim of Portugal and SOLE of Canada, announced that the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance Board has unanimously selected ReCORK to collect and recycle used and surplus natural cork wine closures from their 100-plus members in Washington state.
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Following success in Europe, Nomacorc, the world’s leading producer of alternative wine closures, is introducing its NomaSense equipment in the U.S. at the Unified Symposium in Sacramento.
The NomaSense oxygen measurement system is highly accurate, portable, non-destructive, and allows for non-invasive analysis of both gaseous and dissolved oxygen in bottled wine.
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Peregrine Mobile Bottling, LLC features a new KRONES-Engineered Mobile Bottling Line of highest quality. The line is installed on a 48 ft trailer and operates at 70+ bpm. They use KRONES filling technology with single and double pre-evacuation for absolute lowest O2 pick-up, cork and screw cap application, R&G capsule applicator and KRONES-KOSME rotary labeler from subsidiary.
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Being different proved to be a winner for French winemaker Boisset Family Estates. The World Packaging Organization has awarded Constar International a 2009 WorldStar Award, the international packaging industry’s most prestigious honor, for a lightweight, sustainable 750ml PET wine bottle for Boisset Family Estates’ 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau.
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01/21/10
Cowhorn, a small Applegate Valley winery whose early releases are earning big national praise, just sent its first shipment of 1,000 used wine bottles to The Green Glass Company where they will be upcycled into heirloom goblets, pitchers, tumblers, vases, and votives.
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NAPA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) today announced a significant upgrade to its REthink Compliance tool (http://www.rethinkcompliance.com), providing eCommerce clients access to point of transaction compliance capabilities and automated reporting.
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Engineered for the environment, Kantharos Process Water Systems (www.kantharoswater.com) continually clean and reuse process water, dramatically reducing the amount of wastewater generated and potentially eliminating the need for large wastewater ponds and packaged wastewater systems in wineries.
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Paul Skinner, Ph.D., soil scientist and proprietor of Terra Spase, Inc., in Napa Valley, has announced that a subset of weather data contained in his Weather and Wine Grapes in the Napa Valley AVA report has been purchased for use by climate scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.
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Co-founders Joel Quigley and Cailyn McCauley announced today the launch of Creative Furnace, a public relations, event production and cross-promotional firm specializing in marketing communications strategies for the wine, music, fashion and lifestyle industries. Creative Furnace is based in Santa Rosa, California, in the heart of Northern California wine country.
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Glenn Mattsson has announced the launch of Nussivo Engineering Consultants. Nussivo will provide consulting services to manufacturing companies in the North Bay.
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A new two-piece molded pulp suspension system for shipping wine bottles not only passes UPS drop tests but is considered “eco-friendly.” It uses 100 percent post-consumer content with much less material than other molded pulp wine shoppers, making it less expensive to produce – about half the cost.
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Drea Helfer announced that she established DH Wine Compliance. Helfer is known for her work at two of the largest wine compliance firms in Northern California. "She has licensed hundreds of west coast wineries, importers, wholesalers and retailers.
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01/12/10
Every year at harvest time, a plane with a multispectral camera flies over the vineyards of the award-winning Ste. Michelle Wine Estates to capture detailed images of 3,500 acres of grapes in Washington and Oregon. This aerial imagery is delivered in hundreds of 20-acre blocks and then georeferenced in ESRI's ArcView software, using a Wacom DTZ-2100 interactive pen display.
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