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PACKAGING What is neat is that you do not need to buy any special equipment if you are already using this type of closure on still wines. ���Without any adjustments to your head (for bottling still wines), the cap is good to 3.5 bar pressure,��� he said. ���If you increased the re-draw of the center block, it is good to 6 bar pressure.��� The closure has been used ���for years��� in Italy, Wilson said. ���We have supplied to a couple of cider companies.���It won���t be long before the wineries follow suit.��� As the oldest form of manufactured bottle cap, the crown cap obviously preserves bubbles, as it has capably done for beer and carbonated beverages for more than a century. John Dixon noted that these are available in standard or stainless steel, with stainless the preference to eliminate rust. Just bring a ���church key��� to pop it open. Capsules, in short Though not strictly necessary, as illustrated by the iconic Buena Vista sparkling package, most sparkling wine bottles still come wrapped in a tin or polylam capsule. Bulging mushroom-shaped corks and bulky wire hoods, however, bring added concerns for designing and applying capsules. Rack & Riddle produces thousands of cases for some 50-plus brands at its Hopland, Calif., plant every year. VP of business development Mark Garaventa stressed, ���A quality cork is a must. The machinery to run sparkling is very sensitive, and the packaging materials also must be very specific.��� Because the capsule does not spin on to a relatively straight bottle top (and a flat cork), ���If the ���spotting eye��� on a foil is wrong you end up with uneven pleats, not matching up with the front and back labels. There are no specific companies for sparkling Crown caps for sparkling wines can use stainless steel to eliminate rust. packaging: Many of the same still wine suppliers also supply for sparkling. Decorated foils have to be made in very large runs. Minimums generally are 50,000 units. Most of our small clients use one of five stock colors on hand at R&R,��� Garaventa said. Although Wines & Vines has long advocated creative decoration for bottle capsules (see ���Get the Max From Your Capsules��� in the August 2012 issue), it���s not always the recommendation for sparkling wines. FOOD AND BEVERAGE SUPPLIES SINCE 1945 SINCE 1945 A.O. Wilson is a stocking distributor of premium sparkling products, aluminum screw caps, still wine corks, filtration media, premium hose, yeast & enzymes, bag-in-box products and small equipment WE ARE ALL ABOUT SERVICE ! 9597 17th Sideroad, Erin Ontario N0B 1T0 Canada Tel# 1-855-857-1511 www.aowilson.ca 76 W in e s & V i ne s JANUARY 20 13 SEE US AT UNIFIED BOOTH #124