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FEBRUARY NEWS Wines & Vines Completes Merger With Practical Winery & Vineyard Editorial content of quarterly journal will appear as a special monthly section in Wines & Vines S an Rafael, Calif.—Wine industry media and marketing company Wines & Vines completed its merger with the quarterly journal Practical Winery & Vineyard, both based in San Rafael, Calif. Beginning with the April issue, the editorial content of Practical Winery & Vineyard will appear in a special section within each monthly print edition of Wines & Vines, in its digital editions and on its website. The merger will bring the best parts of PWV to the pages, website and digital editions of Wines & Vines. Don Neel, publisher and editor of PWV, will continue to source and edit content about grape and wine production for the new section. The two companies have been collaborating on circulation management and already were linked by UNIFIED POSI RAPE SYM WINE & G E UM ISSU J A N U A RY W W W. W UST NE IND THE WI ICE OF T H E VO INESAN DV I N E S 2013 .COM RY Improving By Degrees e quality 44 akers elevat How 11 winem ownership under parent company Wine Communications Group of Sonoma, Calif. Winter 2013 is the final PWV issue to be published independently. Existing subscribers to PWV will begin receiving the Wines & Vines print edition each month and should expect the same quantity and quality of information and advice about grapegrowing and winemaking topics they have enjoyed from PWV, plus the additional content expertise of Wines & Vines. In turn, Wines & Vines readers will benefit winesandvines.com from the insights of Learn more: Search keywords the expert wine in"PWV merger." dustry columnists in viticulture and enology that PWV has worked with for many years. Those PWV subscribers who are also Wines & Vines subscribers will have their W&V subscriptions extended mentations 64 rs Native Fer Ridge Monito 86 Wine Quality k Geology and Roc ry Shrivel 96 Identifying Ber America 100 Across North Vintage 2012 PLUS ation Crossflow Filtr Barrel Cleaning ing Bubbly Packag by the length of their remaining PWV term. Plus, for the first time PWV article archives will be available in full online. To start with, the back issues of 2011 and 2012 will be searchable online starting in April, when the first issue of the merged magazines launches. Wines & Vines has the longest track record of any wine industry magazine—published since 1919—but it is very up to date on content delivery. Its new circulation including PWV will total 8,300, with more than 50% on the West Coast and the remaining readership distributed widely in other regions. —Wines & Vines staff We have been grafting grapevines for over 120 years. ENTAV-INRA, FPS and Custom grafting. Quality dormant benchgraft Greenvines in reusable large plastic pots Rootings and cuttings for field grafting. Phone: (707) 446-9223 • Cell (707) 207-1249 sebastian.traviesa@mercier-groupe.com www.mercier-groupe.com 16 W in e s & V i ne s F E B R UARY 20 13