Afternoon Brief, August 1st

What’s Ahead for California Wine Law in 2023: Leaders in wine law in the North Coast talked about California’s upcoming “Bottle Bill” and other key issues facing the wine industry...

The Beginning 1982 was a remarkable year: Michael Jackson released the album Thriller, Steven Spielberg's blockbuster E.T. was shown in the cinemas, the first Commodore 64 was launched – and Anton Paar founded its first sales subsidiary in Great Britain. From the early 1970s, Anton Paar products were distributed in the United Kingdom by Stanton Redcroft Ltd. In 1982, Sales Manager Bryan Leslie Treherne and brothers Kevin and Paul Jiggens, as well as Mike Stevens, decided to break new ground. After a visit of then Anton Paar CEO Ulrich Santner and his daughter Barbara, the decision was made to establish the first sales subsidiary in London. On January 6, 1982, Paar Scientific Ltd. finally started in a small office in Raynes Park near Wimbledon in South London. It was a small store located between a Chinese take-away and a tile store. In 2004, the company name was changed to Anton Paar Ltd. A branch office was established by the British sales subsidiary in Dublin in 2011, and i

Dan Moberg Joins Bevan Cellars as General Manager

March 23rd – Napa Valley, CA – Bevan Cellars, the cult-level wine brand known for its high scoring small-lot and single vineyard bottlings of Napa Valley Bordeaux-style and Sonoma County […]

  All-New Pulsair Systems TM-1501W Wine Kit.   Pulsair officially unveils a new, inexpensive, portable air mixing system, the TM-1501W Wine Kit, for winemakers who ferment smaller grape lots in barrels, macrobins and 1-3 ton fermentation tanks to improve the vinification process.   Featuring Pulsair's 35-year proven and tested air mixing process for cap management, winemakers can now use Pulsair in smaller fermentation tanks to enhance the infusions of phenolics, tannins and color to improve aromatics, complex structure and reduce reductive and stuck ferments.   A lightweight, portable stainless steel probe is inserted in through the buoyant cap to sequentially release the timed pulses of compressed air or gas into the ferment.  The speed and intensity of the modulated injection of air pulses can be controlled on the all-pneumatic, air driven Pulsair TM-1501W Mixer.  Once released under the cap, the rising compressed air bubbles push the juice up into and over the top of the c