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30 WINES&VINES May 2017 PRODUCT NEWS New option for canning wines Free Flow Wines is now offering canning services at its facility in Napa, Calif. The company, which primarily provides wine-in-keg services, invested in new equip- ment to can wine, cider, sake and sparkling wine. Free Flow is offering 375 ml or 250 ml Ball cans and can accommodate minimum orders of 500 cases or 12,000 cans per bottling run. Canning includes setup with quality control and wine adjust- ments, sterile membrane filtra- tion, nitrogen dosing, filling with a counter-pressure line, data coding and packaging. Inline car- bonation is available for spar- kling products. Free Flow is also offering custom-printed cans or shrink sleeves as well as trays and boxes with custom printing options. freeflowwines.com Clip for proper drip position Innergation is a nutrient and wa- ter-delivery system developed by grower Rick Adams for his Sonoma County vineyard. The system is comprised of a clip that fits on 13- and 14-gauge wires that hold the proper posi- tion for one to two "spaghetti"- style drip tubes to deliver water to a precise location or even above hillside vines using a 90° loop. The clip can be used in conjunction with a "compost pocket," which is a 2.5-gallon depression filled with organic compost or other amendments to foster plant growth and water retention. innergation.com Product News Latest offerings and announcements Bottle-dipping machine for wax finishes Emmeti USA released its new "Wax-On" machine to automate the bottle-dipping process for wax fin- ishes. The machine robotically dips bottles for a consistent application of wax with either a glossy or matte wax finish. Bottles enter through an infeed conveyor and are picked up by the machine that then dips the bottles. According to Emmeti, if a winery is using a pull tab as part of the wax finish, the machine will au- tomatically orient the bottles to the correct position. Bricks of wax are placed in a storage area of the ma- chine, which automatically feeds them into the wax tank as needed. Additional wax tanks can be added to the machine, which can operate as a stand-alone unit or as part of a fully automated bottling line. emmeti-spa.it