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WINEMAKING AMPELOS CELLARS OWNERS & WINEMAKERS Peter and Rebecca Work 1633 W. Central Ave., Lompoc, Calif. • (805) 736-9957 • ampeloscellars.com YEAR BONDED 2003 VINEYARD ACREAGE 25 DTC SALES 40% DRAGONETTE CELLARS 1633 W. Central Ave., Lompoc, Calif. • (805) 737-0200 • dragonettecellars.com OWNERS & WINEMAKERS John Dragonette, Steve Dragonette and Brandon Sparks-Gillis YEAR BONDED 2004 DTC SALES 70% THE CHALLENGE Two low-intervention wineries focused on Pinot Noir and Rhone varietal wines have partnered up in a converted industrial location down the road from the sewage treatment plant in Lompoc, Calif. Peter and Rebecca Work, the owners of Ampelos, first teamed with Ken Brown to convert "a shell" of a building into a modern winemaking cellar. Ampelos now shares the space with Dragonette, operating the shared winemaking area under an alternating proprietor agreement. SHARED WINEMAKING EQUIPMENT Destemmer- crusher Press Diemme, Collopack Solutions, collopack.com Europress, Euro-Machines, euromachinesusa.com Fermentors ProBin 44-s, MacroBins, Macro Plastics, macroplastics.com Tanks TranStore, Custom Metalcraft, custom-metalcraft.com; larger tanks from Santa Rosa Stainless Steel, srss.com Filtration Forklift Ozone Barrel washing Lab Electrotec Service Co., electrotecservice.com Nissan Forklift Corp., nissanforklift.com McClain Ozone, mcclainozone.com Hotsy pressure washer, hotsy. com; American Water Works, americanwaterworks.net; Gamajet, gamajet.com analysis Bottling Vanalytics, winolab.com; Enar- tis Vinquiry Santa Maria, (805) 922-1571, enartisvinquiry.com Castoro Bottling Co., castorobottling.com 44 WINES & VINES OCTOBER 2012 AMPELOS Winery Average Bottle Price $35 AMPELOS DRAGONETTE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY AVERAGE CALIFORNIA AVERAGE U.S. AVERAGE $45 $26 $8 $9 $0 $20 $40 $60 Source: WinesVinesDATA TECHNICAL REVIEW Winery Case Production 3,500 AMPELOS DRAGONETTE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY AVERAGE CALIFORNIA AVERAGE U.S. AVERAGE 3,200 9,000 80,000 44,000 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 SERVICES & SUPPLIERS Barrels Seguin Moreau Napa Cooper- age, seguinmoreaunapa.com; Boutes, boutes.com; Gamba USA/ Botti Generazioni, bottigamba. com; Remond, New World Winery Equipment, enotools.com; Saury, sauryusa.com; Nadalie USA, nadalie. com; T W Boswell, twboswell.com; Trust Hungarian, Trust International Corp., barrelmakers.com; stainless barrels from Paul Mueller, muel.com Corks Label design Label printing Distribu- tion POS/DTC tracking DIAM, G3 Enterprises, diam-cork.com Initial design by Heroist, heroist. com; currently on WineWeb platform, Wineweb Enterprises, services.wineweb.com Label Art, labelart.com Wine Warehouse, winewarehouse. com; Winebow, winebow.com Wineweb Enterprises, services. wineweb.com; Quickbooks, quickbooks.intuit.com Banking Union Bank, unionbank.com; Farm Credit West, farmcreditwest.com Tasting room Open Thursday through Sunday or by appointment at the Lompoc Wine Ghetto DRAGONETTE SERVICES & SUPPLIERS Barrels Francois Freres, Mel Knox Barrel Broker, knoxbarrels.com; Seguin Moreau Napa Cooperage, seguinmoreaunapa.com; Ermitage, (707) 224-2377; Gillet, tonnellerie- gillet.com; Sylvain, tonnellerie- sylvain.fr; Radoux, tonnellerie- radoux.com; Saury, sauryusa.com Bottles M A Silva USA, masilva.com Capsules Hand-waxed Label design Label printing Distribu- tion POS/DTC tracking Tasting room Vin Design, vindesign.com Vintage 99 Label, vintage99.com Website Vin Agency, vinagency.com Bradford Wine Group, (805) 965- 2818; Garber & Co., garberand- company.com; Burke Wine Broker- age, burkewinebrokerage.com Quickbooks, quickbooks.intuit.com Banking Montecito Bank and Trust, montecito.com Open Thursday through Monday or by appointment in Los Olivos, Calif.

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