Enomatic – partner of the Decanter at the Global Tastings

UK (London) – Enomatic is the partner of one of the most renowned wine magazines in the world – the English DECANTER magazine – and at the “World Wine Awards”, the magazine’s event of the year. There, wines that have been awarded a prize in the course of the year are being presented during a tasting. The wines awarded can be tasted from September 29 to October 12, 2012 in select top restaurants all over the world.

First an idea, now a top brand: Enomatic, an Italian success story

ITALY (Strada) - Ten years ago, a high-tech system was invented that enabled the organoleptic characteristic of wine to remain the same even up to a month after uncorking a bottle. Today, Eonomatic is known worldwide and...

From now on, all Lafite wine bottles have a proof tag

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - From now on, all wine bottles produced of the Château Lafite Rothschild are provided with the Prooftag closure, which has been developed to allow the proof of authenticity and the retraction of...

First screw cap for sparkling wines introduced

AUSTRALIA (Sydney) - The Australian Guala Closures company and the American O-I company, two global players and leading packaging companies, have developed a new closure for sparkling wines, named „VIIVA™“, which...

The cork industry seeks help in research

PORTUGAL (Mozelos) - It's time for cork harvesting in the Montado woods in the region Alentejo in Portugal - with great hopes this year. Looking back at the last decade, cork companies remember the time of crisis, caused...

From Tuscany to the world: A revolutionary way to serve & save wine

UK (London) - Decanter, one of the world's most renowned wine magazine, was searching for the most influential men in the wine business of 2011 and with its so-called "Power List Top 50", published a ranking that does not...

IXO VINO: bottle opening made easy - good for wine tastings

GERMANY (Berlin) - Just in time for christmas Bosch is offering a rechargable nut-runner with an incorporated cork screw. The name of this special gift: IXO Vino. According to Busch, "the perfect christmas gift". Let's...

Radoux Oakscan – tannins in staves no longer a secret

FRANCE (Bordeaux) – A new measuring system makes it possible to estimate tannins already from the raw material wood. “Oakscan”* is the name of the infrared scan system that can determine the tannin amount of every...

Duval-Leroy to introduce new aluminum Champagne stopper

FRANCE (Reims) - The French champagne house Duval-Leroy wants to set the industry in motion with a new champagne closure without cork. "We have to come up with an alternative to the cork closure," the company's president,...

Screw caps take 15 Percent of world market

INTERNATIONAL - The screw cap industry is currently reporting that the acceptance of screw caps, which up to now have sometimes been viewed as alternative closures for sealing wine bottles, is increasing considerably....

Franconia gets the hang of bottling wine

GERMANY (Franconia) - The renowned Franconian vineyards "Juliusspital" and "Schmitts Kinder" have already been bottling First Growth wines with screw- caps for two years. Furthermore, the Fürstlich Castell´sches...