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Ingenuity and Technology Making Advances for the Wine Industry
Five wine businesses awarded WINnovation Awards Whether solving a problem or seizing an opportunity, these five wine industry suppliers used ingenuity and technology to develop innovative products and...
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Afternoon Brief, November 30
Vivino Announces Year’s Best Consumer Rated Wines: Vivino, the worlds most downloaded wine app and largest community of wine drinkers, today announced Vivinos 2017 Wine Style Award winners...
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Helix Closure Combines Tradition with Convenience for a Satisfying "Pop"
There’s no denying the romance of opening a bottle of wine containing a cork. Peeling back the foil top, inserting the corkscrew, twisting, pulling and then hearing that satisfying pop as the cork comes...
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Free Flow Wines Sparkles with Innovation on Tap and Beyond the Keg
Free Flow Wines saw the rising popularity of sparkling wines and the category’s particular challenges for delivering an optimal by the glass experience as an opportunity to expand the portfolio of services...
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Afternoon Brief, November 7
Settlement Expected in Case Alleging Men Hired Prostitutes for Cruise Aboard USS Alpha Omega: A former Napa Valley winery employee alleges that in August 2015 she was assigned to work on a company yacht...
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Five Wine Industry Innovators Honored with 2016 WINnovation Awards
Whether in solving a problem or seeing an opportunity, these five wine industry suppliers used their ingenuity and knowhow to develop innovative products and solutions for vineyards and wineries. In some...
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Afternoon Brief, November 4
Sonoma County Vintner Steve Kistler to Pay More Than $500,000 to Settle Creek Pollution Case: A Sonoma County vintner has agreed to pay $579,700 to settle water code violations stemming from the release...
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Innovative BlueMorph UV Tank Sanitation Technology Expands Options and Markets
After a period of trials, BlueMorph UV delivered their first commercial ultraviolet light sanitation unit to Jackson Family Wines in September 2015, and in December of that year, they were presented with...
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Awards Recognize Importance of Wine Industry Innovators
Great wine is often the perfect blend of art and science. Winemakers clearly provide the art and deservedly, receive most of the credit. However, much of the science comes from the collaboration between...
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Sonoma State Fortifies Its Leadership Role in Wine Business Education
Last year Sonoma State’s Wine Business Institute was awarded a WINnovation Award at the North Bay Business Journal’s annual Wine Industry Awards, for its leadership in wine education and partnership...