Enartis USA announced the promotions of Amy Jensen to Sales Manager and James Allen to Applied Innovation Manager, effective March 2026. These strategic appointments underscore the company’s evolution from a traditional enological product supplier into a comprehensive partner for integrated winemaking solutions, engineering services, and applied research. Strengthening Leadership for a Modernizing Industry Producers across North America are actively navigating tightening margins, shifting consumer trends, and increased demands for operational efficiency. To meet these challenges head-on, Enartis is expanding its leadership structure to deliver connected, cross-disciplinary expertise that bridges enology, and engineering. “The wine industry is moving from reactive decision-making to predictive control, and our leadership must reflect that,” said Francesco Bergaglio, CEO of Enartis USA. “Amy and James intimately understand the operational and financial pressures o

The wine industry is still recovering from the 2020-2021 COVID pandemic. A November Geisenheim University survey for the ProWein Business Report found that two-thirds of global wine industry representatives it surveyed identified supply chain disruption as the biggest threat to their businesses after cost increases. 92% reported that they had experienced availability issues with glass bottles, significantly more than for any other products. Sand Castle Winery, which lies along the Delaware River in beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is one winery that decided to pivot away from its specialty cobalt blue glass bottles to shrink sleeves that simulated the blue on a more readily available clear glass bottle for three compelling reasons: To control the supply chain. To ensure uniformity across bottle orders so the visual footprint on the shelf would not change. To gain significant cost savings. “Like every business in the country, COVID made us face a decision about how to go forw

Overnight Caravan Stays with Vintners

CARAVAN SALON at ProWein 2022, Premiere of the Wine Travel Awards May 3rd – Wine tourism is an important sales and image channel for many vintners. In Germany alone, wine […]

Fermenting on bentonite can be tricky! Here's a quick rundown on why we like it and who it's right for. Who should ferment on bentonite? Winemakers making tank fermented whites that need early protein stabilization and preservation of aromatics, especially in high protein varietals or in difficult seasons. Why ferment on bentonite? Early removal of heat unstable proteins (solubility of proteins decrease as alcohol increases) Better preservation of aromatics than post-fermentation bentonite additions May lower overall levels of bentonite needed (compared to post-fermentation treatment levels) FERMOBENT PORE-TEC compacts well and leads to lower lees volumes than post-fermentation bentonite treatments What bentonite? FERMOBENT® PORE-TEC is our recommended bentonite for use during fermentation because of its exceptional purity, good dispersion, effective protein removal, and formation of a stable deposit. When is the best time to add bentonite? Bentonite may be added at any

ASEV Honorary Research Lecture to Explore Path for Vineyards to Adapt in Rapidly Changing Environments

DAVIS, Calif., May 20, 2021 – The American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) is pleased to present this year’s Honorary Research Lecturer, Dr. Hans Schultz of Hochschule Geisenheim University in Germany. Dr. Schultz will be presenting the 2021 Honorary Research Lecture, “From Canopy Systems to Water Relations to Climate Change – An Unsteady Path in an Ever […]