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Winery Services
Lab Analysis Lodi Wine Laboratory, lodiwinelaboratory.com;
Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Case goods storage Elite Wine Shipping (EWS), elitewineshipping.com
distribution representative in southern California:
Dimaggio Washington, worldwineeducation.com,
(310) 720-5401; Export to Hong Kong/China:
Mr. sze Ming, Oriental Pearl (HK) Ltd.
Web sales/pos/
inventory software
VinnoW by Update Software, vinnow.com
dtC/wine shipments Via Elite Wine Shipping (EWs), elitewineshipping.com
Packaging
Bottles Demptos Glass, demptos.com
Corks MA Silva USA, masilva.com
Label design Wallrich Creative Communications, wallrich.us
Label printing Label Art of California, labelartca.com;
Monvera Glass Décor, monvera.com
Capsules ACI Cork USA, acicorkusa.com
Building the Winery
General contractor John Vierra, Delta Buildings, deltabldgs.com
Excavation Greyson Engineering, (209) 368-5440
Interior design John Vierra, Delta Buildings, deltabldgs.com
Winery refrigeration Gd-27H, G&D Chillers, gdchillers.com;
design/install Contractor: Eric Bold,
Foothills Mechanical Inc., (530) 391-2078
plumbing/hot water GRB Plumbing, (209) 333-7760
Metal building CBC Steel Buildings, cbcsteelbuildings.com
Floors, trench drains JSG Concrete, (209) 745-5903
Epoxy resin flooring Protech Coatings, pro-techcoating.com;
Cabebe Construction, (209) 321-7777
Making the Wine
Hopper Custom built, Larry Kost, Liberty Industrial,
kosts.com
destemmer Lugana 1r, AWS/Prospero, prosperocorp.biz
Must pump Waukesha 130, Carlsen & Associates,
carlsenassociates.com
Flexible impeller Zambelli T-180, Napa Fermentation Supplies,
napafermentation.com
Tanks Four 1,500-gallon/5-ton red wine fermentors,
Criveller California Corp., criveller.com
Barrels Demptos Napa Cooperage, demptosusa.com;
Canton Cooperage, cantoncooperage.com;
Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage,
seguinmoreaunapa.com;
Nadalie USA, nadalie.com;
Francois Freres, Mel Knox Barrel Broker,
knoxbarrels.com; Tonnellerie de Jarnac,
tonnellerie-de-jarnac-16.com;
Mistral Barrels, mistralbarrels.com
Barrel racks Western Square Industries, westernsquare.com
Bottling line Mobile Wine Line, (209) 745-287
yeast BM45, d254, L2056, d80, rp15, rHonE
4600, BrL97, Clos, Lallemand, lallemandwine.
com; Laffort USA, laffortusa.com;
Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Malolactic bacteria Vp41, Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
nutrients, enzymes
other additions
GoFerm, GoFerm protect, Fermaid o, Fermaid
K, scottzyme Colorpro, Lysovin (Lysozyme),
Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
press Bucher Vaslin Xpro8; KLr Machines,
now Bucher Vaslin North America,
bvnorthamerica.com
Filter pall Corp., Scott Laboratories, scottlab.com
Barrel washing Gamajet Hd-BB, Gamajet, gamajet.com
M2 Wines
2900 E. peltier road, Acampo, Calif.
(916) 765-9149 • m2wines.com
the ChALLenge
Through strong direct-to-consumer sales and a key distribution account in Asia, M2 Wines had outgrown its small industrial
space east of Lodi, Calif. Founder and winemaker Layne Montgomery envisioned an open-air tasting room experience in an
estate vineyard and turned to a local designer to make it happen.
75%
dTC
sALEs
2004
yEAr
BondEd
FoundInG pArTnEr
And WInEMAKEr
Layne Montgomery
MAJor pArTnErs
Ted Woodruff,
Terry Woodruff,
steve stiles
WInEry AVA
Lodi
source: Wines Vines Analytics source: Wines Vines Analytics
0 400,000 800,000 1,200,000
M2 Wines
San Joaquin County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
80,000
4,000
44,000
Winery
Case
production
Winery
Average
Bottle
price
$0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25 $30
M2 Wines
San Joaquin County Average
California Average
U.S. Average
$8
$9
$28
$6 1.1 million
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