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24 Wines&Vines February 2015 New services by WineDirect Napa Valley-based WineDirect is offering five new services to help its clients sell wine directly to consumers. The services include automated package reroutes, free rescheduling of deliveries via the UPS "My Choice" program, expe- dited delivery to Southern Califor- nia, delivery alerts via text (SMS) messages and "advanced ship- ment visibility" to alert winery customers with branded emails about the status of their wine shipments. winedirect.com Compact cartoner machine Douglas Machine's Vantra IM is a compact, intermittent motion car- toner with the flexibility to set up, load and close cartons and trays at speeds of up to 55 per minute within a single platform. The Vantra IM can be integrated with various in-feed options to handle cans, bottles, bags, flat-flow wrapped product and more, including applications requiring multiple manipulations. douglas-machine.com Guala launches new closures line Guala Closures Group released a new range of liners with different levels of oxygen per- meability developed through a partnership with French manu- facturer MGJ. The two companies collaborated for the past two years to devel- op the Oenoseal line that in- cludes: Oenoseal ONYX, with an aluminum layer to ensure maxi- mum impermeability to oxygen and designed for delicate white wines and aromatic rosés, with a liner that better protects sulfur- free wines; Oenoseal IVORY, which is meant for white, rosé and red wines that require a low, but regular, supply of oxygen (na- no-oxygenation); and Oenoseal CORAL, designed for white, rosé and red wines that require a more significant supply of oxygen and enables the avoidance of reduc- tion problems for wines with high tannin levels. gualaclosures.com Vini-Set to help berry set The vineyard spray amendment Vini-Set is a plant growth regula- tor compound designed to im- prove berry size and fruit set. Stackable storage and aging tanks The new stakvat tanks by Ausvat are 900-liter, stainless-steel tanks de- signed for storing and aging wine. The tanks can be stacked vertically four high to provide more wine storage on less square feet. Each tank also features two doors that can be equipped with food-grade membranes with different rates of oxygen permea- bility to provide varying ranges of maturity time. Each tank also is equipped with interior tubing for temperature control. ausvat.com Product News Latest offerings and announcements manny@boutes.com