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MAY — 14TH ANNUAL PACKAGING ISSUE COVER STORY DEPARTMENTS Label Printers For Short Runs 30 Contributors 4 Editor's Letter 8 The Leading Edge of Packaging. By Jim Gordon Wine Industry Data Center 10 Stay flexible with compact, fast equipment that is easy to use for custom jobs. March Hiring Activity Frantic; Offer Variety by Flash Sites. News Headlines 14 PACKAGING Over-Labeling Simplified 38 Restyle wine bottles to meet changing markets. British Columbia Wine Contributes $2 Billion; Chateau Montelena Founder Dies; California Cash Flows Northwest; Wine Terroir by Microbe; Amazon Eager to Build Wine Market; Cal Poly Mourns Vit Professor; Is Paso Best For Cabernet? Sonoma Growers Choose Leader. Plus News Bytes and Briefs. 30 48 'Boxing' at Don & Sons 42 How winemaker Greg Kitchens finishes Pepperwood Grove wines for bag-in-box format. WINEMAKING Product News 27 High-Tech Micro-Winery 48 Latest Winery & Grower Offerings and Developments. Located in a cave in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 5,000-case Rhys Vineyards is naturally high tech. Faces & Forums 28 Rhone Rangers Offer U.S. Versions of French Classics. MARKETING Grounded Grapegrowing 75 Profit From Trade Visits 54 How hospitality personnel should treat palletscale buyers to ensure a unique experience. and Ripening levels sugar loading State of Viticulture in the Central Coast. Plus, Where Is the Central Coast? Fresh fruit, Fresh grassy skin fruit Pre-fresh Neutral Pre-ripe Calendar 97 Ripe fruit Jammy fruit 98 Advertisers' Index WINE EAST IN WINES & VINES Harvest Date and Sugar 58 Grassy News from Eastern North America 87 Privatization Bill Makes History; Vineyard Threatened. Using sugar accumulation to gauge progress during berry ripening is a novel approach. Origins of Mineral Taste 63 Faces & Forums 89 58 Eastern Winery Exposition. Consumers and the wine media are mad for minerality, but science is still catching up. Controlling Bunch Rot 71 Growers can control disease using Gibberellins, rootstocks and deficit-irrigation programs. NORTHWEST CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Northern Grapes Project 90 Scientists work together on cold-climate grapes. 6 w in e S & v i ne S M AY 2 0 1 3 COVERING NORTH AMERICA EAST REGIONS FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE