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OCTOBER NEWS and Water Conservation Society presented SureHarvest with an award recognizing the company's development of technologies and sustainability and certification programs. SureHarvest's vice president of professional services and Wines & Vines columnist Cliff Ohmart accepted the award on behalf of the company. Details: caswcs.org. Roll Global buys Vintage Nurseries Roll Global LLC, owner of Fiji Water, Wonderful Pistachios, Justin Vineyards & Winery in Paso Robles, Calif., and other enterprises, announced its purchase of Vintage Nurseries in Wasco, Calif. The acquisition includes 755,300 square feet of production and growing facilities and 1,169 acres of owned and leased land in California's San Joaquin Valley. Vintage Nurseries produces grafted grapevine rootstocks for the wine grape, table grape and raisin industries. Details: vintagenurseries.com. moving into a new 22,000-square-foot location in Napa, Calif. The firm specializes in filling kegs for wineries to offer their clients a "wine on tap" option. Details: freeflowwines.com. Packaging firm makes invests in facilities Saury adds to North American sales team Brianne Day joined Saury USA's North American sales team and will be responsible for mainly Washington and Oregon. Day has eight years of experience in wine production. Details: sauryusa.com. Carson E. Wright joined Carson Wright Saxco International LLC as its sales account manager for the Northwest. Wright will handle dayto-day sales and new accounts for the glass bottle distributor based in Oakland, Calif. He joins Saxco after working as a sales consultant for Cork Supply USA in Portland, Ore. Details: saxco.com. New rep for AWS/Prospero Steve Felten is now representing AWS/ Prospero in the Central Coast and Southern California. Felten is the former gen- strategic capital and expertise for the wine industry www.bacchuswinefund.com (415) 828-8898 bacchuscapital@bacchuswinefund.com FOOD DIAGNOSTICS Effortless & accurate wine testing Tests Available Include • • • • Acetic Acid Citric Acid Ethanol Glucose / Fructose • • • • Lactic Acid Malic Acid NOPA Total Sulphites (TS02) E enquiries@randoxfooddiagnostics.com 26 W in e s & V i ne s O C TOB E R 20 13 Universal Packaging Corp. announced it had completed a $1.2 million investment in its Canadian production plant in Vernon, B.C. The company, which decorates bottles with screen-printing, reports the investment will increase its capacity by 50%. Details: unipack.ca. Saxco adds sales account manager Free Flow pouring at 1,500 locations Free Flow Wines announced that more than 250 wines are on tap at more than 1,500 restaurants, hotels and other venues in the United States. The company is also eral manager and winemaker at Norman Vineyards in Paso Robles and makes his own wine under the Felten Cellars label. Details: prosperocorp.biz. CORRECTIONS In the September 2013 issue of Wines & Vines, the table on page 38 titled "The Bacchus Portfolio" should have listed DeLille Cellars' location as Woodinville, Wash. In the same table, the item on Maritime Wine Trading Collective should have listed its case volume as 150,000 cases and its vineyard acreage as none. Also in the September 2013 issue, the Viewpoint article on page 82 should have identified Dr. Andrew Walker as the Louis P. Martini Endowed Chair in Viticulture in the Department of Viticulture & Enology, University of California, Davis.