The competition was fierce at this year's PACK DESIGN AWARDS.  Saverglass is proud to celebrate Seven Hills Winery and Bokisch Vineyards for their outstanding packaging choices. We extend our sincere appreciation to our customers and supply chain partners for their hard work and collaboration. Congratulations to everyone involved! Seven Hills Winery (Walla Walla, Washington, USA) BEST CLASSIC FORMAT 3rd PLACE: Defiant Chapter 01, 2024 Vintage: $255 Saverglass Designed MERVEILLEUSE glass bottle | Complete package design by Stranger & Stranger JUDGES' COMMENTS: "Definitely a creative look." "Gorgeous design, love the blue wax and the label. For a cult following, it works. " "They are going for the SQN bottling here and for the same customer. This package tells me what the wine profile is without ever tasting it. This bottle design will look great in a collector's cellar. This feels like a 98pt wine!" Bokisch Vineyards (Lodi, California,

Afternoon Brief, December 12th

DRINKS Partners with Sovos to Offer a  Full-Service Solution for Wineries and Alcohol Retailers on Shopify: New partnership streamlines e-commerce alcohol sales, tax compliance and reporting by integrating the best-in-class solutions for alcohol merchants...

With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic receding, wineries are increasingly upgrading and modernizing equipment for the vineyard, winemaking, and packaging to optimize and automate more manual processes. Machinery like depalletizers is gaining traction because they play a crucial role in automating the handling of bulk glass. Bulk glass lowers costs and the winery’s carbon footprint by eliminating third-party charges for packing glass into cases before delivery. It reduces the number of trucks (and thus CO2 emitted) by 35 percent or more. Mimi Storts, Senior Director of Planning and Operations at Hess Persson Estates, recently upgraded the Hess Collection bottling line. She explains, “At Hess Collection, we had only one bottling line, and it was nearing its end of life. Quality is number one, so we wanted the new bottling line to maintain that quality and retain our internal quality oversight.” Storts also needed two capabilities the old line didn’t have: to h

Afternoon Brief, April 6th

Jancis Robinson at Napa RISE: "The Younger You Are, the More Concerned You Are": On April 5, 2023, the world’s most famous wine writer, Jancis Robinson, made a rare in-person appearance in St. Helena, Calif., at Napa Green’s Napa Rise sustainability event, highlighting her pet peeves in packaging, green solutions and insights into global wine trends...

Afternoon Brief, June 16th

Alcohol Consumption in US Up to Highest Levels Since 2002: Alcohol consumption in the US was up by 2% last year, marking its largest gain since 2002, new data from IWSR Drinks Market Analysis has revealed...