Wineglobe, produced in Bordeaux France by the Paetzold family are single-piece borosilicate glass globes which are currently available in 115L and 220L. They allow for the purest expression regarding terroir drive-wines due to the neutrality of the material: glass. The Wineglobe was created in 2015...

Original Post Sur lie (French for “on the lees”) aging sounds fairly straightforward: it is a stylistic choice to allow wine to age in contact with its lees. The overarching goal is to enhance the mouthfeel, body, and complexity of the wine by foregoing racking or other methods of lees removal for...

Wine filtration addresses unappealing murkiness or deposits, a process that goes back to the origin of wine. Over the centuries, the means of filtration have evolved from fabrics to industrial filters to sedimentation, filtration plates, and membranes. Conventional filtration moves the juice or...

By Nathan Wisniewski How would you define varietal / fermentative aromas? Varietal aromas, sometimes called primary aromas, come from aromatic compounds present in the grapes. These aromas are generally typical of specific grape varieties (thiols in Sauvignon Blanc, Colombard, Petit & Gros Manseng,...

In last week’s blog post we talked about showing human faces in ads. A second, albeit related, scientific fact is that people respond to emotional arguments in advertising over rational ones. A recent analysis of 1400 advertising case studies in the US showed that those with emotional content...

Bulk wine pricing around the world is generally in a stable to softening trend as a number of downward pressures on prices offset the upward pressure from elevated input costs: the stop-start nature of buying activity in most markets; some large inventory levels – primarily of reds – in Argentina,...

Global Package recently piloted another gorgeous pewter-adhesive label into industry stardom: the new label for Napa Valley’s Hailstone Vineyard’s release of its two Cabernet Sauvignons, the “32 Degree” Sauvignon Blanc, and “Weather Dancer” dry Rosé Sauvignon Blanc, “This pewter label is...

The only thing we love more than drinking a great white wine is making one✨ Here we see Chardonnay aging on its lees, known as 𝘴𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦 aging.⁠⁠𝘚𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦 (French for “on the lees”) aging sounds fairly straightforward: it is a stylistic choice to allow wine to...