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24 Wines&Vines March 2015 wine industry news the launch of a new divi- sion of the company called Tap'd Draft Solutions. The new company, based at F re e F l o w 's l o c a t i o n i n Napa, provides custom draft system design, instal- lation, maintenance and line cleaning. Free Flow Wines acquired Bay Area-based Cuff's Tap Service in July 2014 and spent the past six months re-organizing it into Tap'd Draft Solutions. Gallo wins innovation award Bank of the West and Frui- tion Sciences recognized the winner of the second annual Vintage Report In- novation Award Presented at a ceremony in Napa, Calif. The award celebrates innovation and sustain- ability in viticulture. The winning project was a col- laborative experiment by E. & J. Gallo Winery and IBM to apply a variable-rate ir- r i g a t i o n s y s t e m a c ro s s separate quadrants of a 31-acre Cabernet Sauvi- gnon vineyard. The result decreased vineyard spatial variability and increased water-use efficiency with- out compromising quality during drought conditions. Tapp finalizes mergers, sets executive team Tapp Label Co. in Napa announced it had final- ized the merger of its four printing locations into one entity as well as appointed an executive management team. The company is op- erating digital, offset and flexographic printing and decoration in Napa and Livermore, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C. New sales rep for Seguin Moreau Greg Sitton is the new Se- guin Moreau Napa Cooper- age barrel and oak barrel alternative product sales representative for Califor- nia's Sonoma and Men- docino counties, Lodi AVA and the Sierra Nevada foot- hills. Sitton has four years of barrel sales experience and seven years of wine industry sales experience. Laffort opens retail locations Laffort USA announced it has opened new retail out- lets at Carlsen & Associates in Healdsburg, Calif., and at TCW Equipment's new Santa Rosa location. Both locations will carry Laffort's range of yeast, enzymes, bacteria, nutrients, tan- nins and other winemaking products. G3 expands to meet demand for Diam G3 Enterprises in Modesto, Calif., completed a series of upgrades to its cork fa- cilities to boost its capacity to produce Diam closures. The company added five new single-head printers to print on more than 1 million closures per day as well as a new coater to increase its batch range from 6,000 to 20,000 closures. G3 is the North American distribution partner for French manu- facturer Diam Bouchage's technical corks for still wines and Mytik for spar- kling wines. Tom Beard partners with VinWizard Tom Beard Co., which pro- duces barrel-cleaning ma- chinery, is now the North American distributor for VinWizard winery automa- tion, monitoring and control systems. VinWizard is a re- motely accessible system providing integrated software and hardware to manage fer- mentation, temperatures and all other operations from a remote location. Dohm joins Separators Inc. Stephen Dohm is the new vice president of opera- tions for Separators Inc. In his new role, Dohm will oversee the company's centrifuge remanufacturing, service and replacement parts offerings. Prior to joining Separators, Dohm was employed by ITW for more than 20 years, hav- ing multiple operating and general management roles. Greg Sitton Stephen Dohm