TECHNICAL REVIEW
G R N E MG R O N G N G
WI APE AKI WI
DtC
SALES
VINEYARD
acreage
1828 Wetmore Road, Livermore, Calif. 94550
(925) 449-9463 • laspositasvineyards.com
2009
99%
20
Owners
Lisa and Lothar Maier
winemakER
Brent Amos
Winery Case Production
year
bonded
Winery Average Bottle Price
Las Positas Vineyards
2,500
Las Positas Vineyards
15,500
Alameda County Average
80,000
California Average
44,000
U.S. Average
0 40,000 80,000
$30
Las Positas Vineyards
$22
Alameda County Average
$8
California Average
$9
U.S. Average
$0
$5
$10
Source: Wines Vines Analytics
$15
$20
$25
$30
Source: Wines Vines Analytics
the challenge
Luck was on the side of Livermore Valley residents Lisa and Lothar Maier when they started looking for a place to make wine.
By leasing their 20 acres of vines to the area's iconic Wente Vineyards, the owners of Las Positas Vineyards are able to focus
on making wine in their newly renovated and equipped hillside cellar.
Retrofitting the Winery
Interior design Hopkins & Wall, hopkinsandwall.com
Floor coating Cornerstone Flooring,
cornerstoneflooring.com
Floor tiling Sosa Granite & Marble, sosagranite.com
Decorative faux painting Creative Walls, creativewalls.net
Tasting bar and Commercial Casework,
display shelving commercialcasework.com
Grape and Wine Processing
Sorting table
Destemmer-crusher
Packaging, Distribution and Sales
Bottling lines
Bottles
Corks
Capsules
Label design
and printing
Wine club
fulfillment
Website design
Compliance
GAI monoblock: AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz
Demptos Glass, demptos.com
Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Ramondin USA, ramondin.com
Sugarman Design, sugarmandesigngroup.com;
Elite Label by GM Nameplate, elitelabel.com
85% pickup at winery,
remainder shipped in-house
Justin Falco (in-house at Las Positas)
In-house; currently shipping only to California
CMA, AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz
Vaucher Beguet, vaucherbeguet.com
Press Diemme, ColloPack Solutions, collopack.com
Pumps
Tanks
CMA/Elipompa, AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz
AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz;
Santa Rosa Stainless Steel, srss.com;
Custom Metalcraft, custom-metalcraft.com
Chiller Whaley Products, winerychillers.org
Lab Equipment
Spectrometer Thermo Scientific, thermoscientific.com
pH meter
Jay Flachsbarth
Density meter Anton Paar, anton-paar.com
Hanna Instruments, hanninst.com/usa
SO2 analyzer Vinmetrica, vinmetrica.com
Outside lab services Enartis Vinquiry, enartisvinquiry.com
54 W in es & V i ne s F E B R uary 20 14
Las Positas owns two GAI monoblocks for different sized lots.
