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Advice &
Instruction (home & amateur)
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
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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
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)
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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