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Production Resouces (for commercial & home winemaking; see also Business Resources)

Advice & Instruction (home & amateur)
"new". All Winemaking offers a manual & newsletter for home winmakers

Home Brew Directory offers discussion and links useful to home brewers and wine makers

Home Brew Talk discussion board for home wine and beer makers

Jack Keller Winemaking offers instructive narratives and articles for beginning to advanced home winemakers, along with a reading list, materials suppliers and resources, related links (very comprehensive and regularly updated), news of winemaking competitions, etc., from an Amateur Winemaker in Texas (where it ain't easy!). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Jim Alexander's Home Winemaking Page offers tips for home winemakers and articles to explainwine phenomena, such as blending and aging. RECOMMENDED

UC Davis Viticulture & Enology Homewinemaking

Wine Making Radio a 20-minute bi-weekly audio show produced by winemakers offering interviews, technical tips and other information of value to winemakers, available to download in several formats. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

winemakeri - supplies and information for the home winemaker

Winemaking Dictionary - entries on ingredients, equipment and common (and sometimes archaic) winemaking terms; thorough and fast (part of the "winemakeri" site). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED


Equipment & Supplies
ASC Engineering (Australia)

Barrel Mill (Avon, MN)

Enologica - new and used winemaking equipment (Canada)

Ferm-Rite - "breathing" bungs

Flextank - containers for wine making, olive curing

Heavy Duty Products - complete fermentation systems (Canada)

Innerstave - oak flavor alternatives

KLR Machines - wine presses (Sebastopol, CA)

Lamanuzzi & Pantaleo - winemaking supplies and equipment (Madera, CA)

MGT - stainless steel tank & tanker design & production (Israel)

Make Wine Make Beer - vinting and brewing supplies, equipment, and information (Hayden, Idaho)

Optek - inline photometric analyzers (Essen, Germany & Germantown, WI)

P&L Specialties - sorting tables, bins, catwalks, pumps and all manner of stainless and aluminum fruit handling equipment and custom fabrication (Santa Rosa, CA)

Pall Corporation - filtration system

PolyVin - polyethelene wine containers and cooling systems

Presque Isle Wine Cellars - winemaking supplies and equipment (Pennsylvania)

Re-Coop - remanufactured, recycled barrels (Sebastopol, CA)

Scott Laboratories - supplies and equipment for fermentation, filtration, analysis, and packaging (Petaluma, CA & Pickering, Canada)

Saelig Company Inc. - sophisticated electronics for monitoring temperature and humidity

Stepson, Inc. - eastern European wholesaler-importer of barrels, as well as caviar, honey, mushrooms & truffles, oils & extracts, specialty meats, etc.

Taylormade - manufacturers and fabricators of stainless equipment (New Zealand)

Valley Pipe & Supply - presses, pipes, valves, etc. (Fresno, CA)

WineArt - amateur winemaking supplies and equipment

Wine Making and Beer Brewing - starter information and links portal

winemakeri - supplies and information for the home winemaker

WineOak.com

Woodstick Wines (Ontario, Can)

World Cooperage Company


Finances & Operations (see also Business Resources)

eSkye - solutions, integration and outsourcing of beverage depletion data

Inertia Beverage - solutions for direct sales & allocation management

Virtual Winery - financial and production forecasting for winery operations


Grape Sources
Allied Grape Growers supplies grapes and provides information on the wine grape market for both growers and buyers

Amador County Wine Grape Growers’ Association

Naggiar Vineyards (Nevada County)

Papagni Vineyards (Central Valley)

Turrentine Wine Brokerage is a wholesale source for grapes, bulk wine and bottled wine


Packaging
Amorim is a cork supplier with lots of good general information

Cork Information Bureau - industry marketing group with additional interesting general information

packagingWINE.com - Jason Curtis' collection of links related to wine packaging

WineCard - dual-layer, peel-away labels

Zork - cork alternative closure


Production Services
Central Coast Wine Services - wine elaboration and case goods storage

Mokelumne Mobile Bottling

Paso Robles Wine Services - wine elaboration and case goods storage

"new". Vinquiry - analytical services, consulting & supplies


Publications (commercial)
Practical Winery & Vineyard

Vineyard & Winery Management

Wine Business OnLine and Wine Business Monthly provides news and information for professionals in all aspects of the industry (subscription required for full access). RECOMMENDED

WineMaker Magazine

Wines & Vines is one of the oldest wine industry publications. Their website homepage has many categories of wine news interest that branch farther and delve deeper than mere wine consumption. Editor Phillip Hiaring's column, "Wise & Otherwise" always contains information of interest and amusement. The annual Wines & Vines Directory is the master rolodex for wine commerce in the US. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Wynboer offers technical inofrmation geared toward vineyardists in South Africa


Vines & Vineyard Services
Agrilink USA specializes in water management for agriculture and the environment

Australian Wine Research Institute performs a wide range of services in areas from agro-chemicals to regulatory compliance, conducts research, performs analyses, provides solution advice, publishes papers, etc. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bergman Euro National, articles dealing with vineyard real estate

California Association of Winegrape Growers

California Wineland (a PfW Sponsor) - news and articles related to vineyard development, real estate transactions, etc.

Correia-Xavier, Inc., agricultural real estate appraisal and consultation

Double A Grapevines (Fredonia, NY)

Duarte Nursery (Hughson, Stanislaus County, CA)

Foundation Plant Materials (UC Davis)

Grafted Grapevines (Clifton, NY)

"new". Integrated Viticulture Online (UC Davis project)

Nord Coast Vineyard Services (Napa)

Onset - onsite sensors, monitoring, logging and controlling devices, and software (Bourne, MA)

OVS (Oregon Vineyard Supply)

Richard T. Nagaoka - The Grape Doctor, vineyard management consulting

ScanControl, Inc., providers of Geographic Information Systems for agriculture

Sunridge Nurseries (Bakersfield, CA)

Tagstream - RFID barrel tracking systems with dBase integration (Goleta, CA)

Terra Spase - GIS vineyard mapping systems and analysis (St. Helena, CA)

Vestra - geologic vineyard consulting, GIS mapping, hardware & software; also West Coast AVA maps (Redding, CA)

Vinesmith (Virginia)

Vintage Nurseries (Wasco, CA)



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