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Label Printers for Short Runs

Stay flexible with compact, easy-to-use equipment

by Jane Firstenfeld
 
 

TECHNICAL REVIEW

 
 

A 'Micro-Winery Gone Haywire'

Rhys Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains is naturally high tech

by Laurie Daniel
 
 

SALES & MARKETING

 
 

Profiting From Trade Visitors

How hospitality personnel should treat pallet-scale buyers

by Craig Root
 
 

PACKAGING

 
 

'Boxing' with Don Sebastiani & Sons

How Pepperwood Grove finishes wines for BIB packaging

by Greg Kitchens
 
 

Over-Labeling Simplified

Restyle wine bottles to meet changing markets

by Jane Firstenfeld
 
 

PRACTICAL WINERY & VINEYARD

 
 

Predicting harvest date using berry sugar accumulation  Access to this article requires a subsciption.

by Alain Deloire, Department of Viticulture & Oenology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (present address: NWGIC, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia)
 
 

Mineral taste in wine, minerals in the vineyard...Are they connected?  Access to this article requires a subsciption.

by Alex Maltman, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
 
 

Cluster elongation to control bunch rot in winegrapes

by Stan Grant, Progressive Viticulture
 
 

WINE EAST FEATURES

 
 

Northern Grapes Project Sees Results

Grant enables scientists to work together on projects benefiting cold-climate regions

by Linda Jones McKee
 
 

GROUNDED GRAPEGROWING

 
 

State of Viticulture in the Central Coast

by Glenn McGourty
 
 
 
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April 2012 $386 million
4%
$4,842 million
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April 2013 $400 million $5,128 million
     
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April 2012 $141 million
1%
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