Today, we are excited to announce the release of our 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which showcases our continued progress on this journey.
Faults such as TCA, oxidation and reduction not only cause the loss of wine bottles but also of all of the resources that were put to use to create them.
Zebulon, NC (November 10, 2021)- Vinventions announces that Justin Sternberg has become the President of Vinventions USA. For the past 9 years, Justin served Foley Family Wines in multiple capacities developing business assets and global brands that enhanced the company’s market share. His new appointment with Vinventions USA began November 8, 2021.
Napa Valley veteran winemaker, Tony Coltrin of Oberon Wines, recalled an in-depth closure study over many years in which Nomacorc placed very highly and impressed him. When the time was right, he was excited to move to a closure that gave him peace of mind and a sense of confidence that anyone opening a bottle of his wines would enjoy the aromatics and deliciousness of the wine the way he intended.
Sonoma, California - Vinventions USA - a North Carolina-based privately-owned industrial management company, and parent company of Vinventions USA, LLC—announced Thursday, December 10th, an annual gift to Sonoma State University’s Wine Industry Scholars Program. “In lieu of holiday gifts, we wanted to support our industry and selected Sonoma State University’s (SSU) Wine Industry Scholars Program which provides grants to winery and vineyard workers’ children attending Sonoma State University. 2020 has been an extraordinary and challenging year for everyone and especially for college students and their families,” said Don Huffman, Director of Sales and Wine Quality, Vinventions USA. The scholarship program is designed to provide first-generation children from families of vineyard and winery workers access and support services through higher education and is used to offset tuition and other educational expenses associated with attending SSU. In addition to financial support, the program includes a summer transition program, academic and career advising, cohort-based classes, co-curricular programming as part of the Rodney Strong Pathways Program, and student work experience opportunities.
Napa Valley, California - Noël Group--a North Carolina-based privately-owned industrial management company, and parent company of Vinventions USA, LLC—announced Tuesday, October 27th that it has invested in Customer Vineyard to support their aggressive growth and expansion initiatives. Noël Group was an early supporter of Customer Vineyard’s vision and this new investment demonstrates the increasingly critical role data plays within the beverage industry. Supporting Customer Vineyard is aligned with Noël Group’s mission of providing the resources and expertise to pursue promising new initiatives and create the means to cultivate and capitalize on inter-company synergies.
July 1, 2020 (SONOMA, CA) – Vinventions, the global leader of Wine Closure Solutions, in partnership with Wine Business Monthly, Sonoma State University and Cork Supply is pleased to announce the 2019 Wine Marketing Awards, aka Vinnie winners. The Vinnies recognizes brands and companies bringing innovation, inspiration and ground-breaking ideas to the wine industry.
Scott Schultz hails from Chicago where he worked both the front and back of the house at several top restaurants. A job at the Las Vegas outpost of Thomas Keller’s Bouchon lead to a wine director post back in Yountville. Once in Napa he apprenticed in several cellars and in 2010 wound up
Sheri began her formal wine education at the International Wine Center in New York City, where she later became an instructor. She completed the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Intermediate Certificate in 1998 and the WSET Advanced Certificate a year later.
Pam’s career in winemaking began as a harvest intern for Sonoma Cutrer after graduating from the University of California at Davis with a degree in fermentation science. She spent her early years in the business as an enologist and assistant winemaker for Carmenet in Sonoma
Zaccagnini established its family-run business in 1978. Located in the heart of Bolognano, a small town in the Abruzzi region of Italy known for guarding important treasures and treasures, the Winery has grown rapidly and steadily. With the goal of “absolute quality, from cluster to glass” oenologist Concezio Marulli oversees 300 hectares of beautiful vineyards and monitors every stage of production.
Julio Viola had a dream. He wanted to produce wines that would convey the name of Patagonia to every corner of the globe. He had an innate sense of the area’s terroir and knew he was in the right place. So he summoned a team of viticulturists to study the soil and climate to determine which varieties were best suited to their micro-region, called San Patricio del Chañar.
Samantha Sheehan founded POE in 2009 after being inspired by the wines of Burgundy and Champagne. Her goal is to create alluring, vineyard-specific wines with minimal intervention, judicious use of sulfur, and no additives. Ever.
In 2000, Pax Mahle and his wife Pam, who had both worked in the food and beverage industry, began Pax Wine Cellars with the idea of focusing on site-specific Syrah from Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. The first wines were powerful, muscular reds that quickly established Pax as one of California’s premier producers of Syrah.
Paso Robles Events Center, March 25th.
Hardy Wallace (Dirty) and Matt Richardson (Rowdy) met in Atlanta some 15 years ago and bonded over a shared love of funky wine and spicy fried chicken. In 2009, Wallace got laid off from a job in technology sales and moved to California after winning a social media contest.
Ken was exposed to fine wine in Kentucky while waiting tables to put himself through school. He soon left to study enology and viticulture at UC-Davis. Upon graduation he spent eight years at Ventana and Talbott in California’s central coast.
Guy Davis and his wife Judy founded Davis Family Vineyards in 1997 and have since been joined in the business by their two sons Cooper and Cole.
Marty Clubb is Managing Winemaker and Co-Owner of L’Ecole No 41 with his wife, Megan, and children, Riley and Rebecca. Founded by Megan’s parents, Jean and Baker Ferguson, in 1983 L’Ecole was the third winery in Walla Walla Valley.
Steve Matthiasson is a California winemaker and viticulturist and, it must be said, a leading player in a movement described by Jon Bonné as “New California.” New California producers share an Old World sensibility that is, in good measure, a reaction to the high-alcohol, overly-extracted Napa wines that garner big scores and even bigger prices.
For more than three decades, Jeff Meier has been an integral part of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, working closely alongside Jerry Lohr, and the Lohr family, to build one of California’s most respected estate programs, and a world-renowned portfolio of wines.
Vinventions is a proud sponsor and attendee at this event focused on opening up a conversation about women in wine.
Date : January 23-25 2018 Place : Sacramento, CA - USA Website : www.unifiedsymposium.org
Vinventions e Eataly ti invitano a metterti alla prova con una degustazione unica… di tappi! Date : 18 Oct 2018 Place : Eataly Milano - Italy Evento solo su invito.
Date : 26 Feb - 1 Mar Place : Zaragoza - Spain Website : http://megavino.be/
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Winzer-Service Messe 2019 Nov 27-28 Karlsruhe, Germany
Date : Fev 7, 2019 Place : Paris, France
Vinventions is proud sponsor of the world' s largest trade fair dedicated to the bulk wine business.
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The Oregon Wine Symposium offers attendees a rich menu of seminars and speakers on topics of vital interest to all segments of the Oregon wine industry, from business and marketing to viticulture and enology. The annual event is held at the Oregon Convention Center and provides a gathering place for the wine industry to come together as a community, to learn and celebrate its achievements. The Symposium is brought to you by the Oregon Wine Board and the Oregon Winegrowers Association. https://industry.oregonwine.org/education/oregon-wine-symposium/
What: Innovation + Quality (IQ) When: February 27, 2020 Where: CIA Greystone, 2555 Main St, St Helena, CA 94574
What: Taste The Difference wine tasting When: October 24th @ 4 pm ET Where: Eataly NYC Downtown
Piacenza Expo - Italia Novembre 23/24/25 2019
Amsterdam - Nederland December 2-3 2019
https://www.vinventions.com/fr/tomorrow-wine
Novembre 16 - 17 Arsonic, Mons - Belgium
November 26-28 2019 PARC DES EXPOSITIONS MONTPELLIER - FRANCE
November 19-22 2019 Milano, Italy
Arpil 29 2019 Ourense, Spain
Vinventions invite you on April 9 - Hall 8 on the stand of the FIVI, Italian Independent Winemakers for a special tasting.
Premium Tasting Chile June 13th
Wine Paris 11 - 13 Février 2019 Paris Expo, France www.wineparis.com
Launched in 1992, Triangle Wine & Food Experience is the Triangle and Carolina’s premier wine event encompassing tastings, dinners, and a Grand Gala & Auction over a three day period. Chefs, winemakers and wineries from all over the world participate in this truly amazing event.
Date: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2019 Place: Raleigh, NC Website: https://www.trianglewineexperience.org/
The Unified Wine & Grape Symposium hosts more than 700 10 ft. x 10 ft. booths and 24 large vineyard and winery machinery areas. The exposition encompasses a wide range of products related to the wine and grape industry and includes international representation in both sessions and exhibits. Website: https://www.unifiedsymposium.org/
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16th edition of the Contest of the Best Sommelier of the World March 10 -15 2019 Elizabeth Center, Antwerp, Belgium
Date : November 20 - 22 2018 Place : Bordeaux, France
Matera dal 31 ottobre al 3 novembre 2019
Ce 18 mai, venez visiter les installations de Vinventions à Thimister-Clermont (Belgique) et découvrez comment sont fabriqués les bouchons Nomacorc, en particulier la Green Line. La gamme Green Line de Nomacorc est une nouvelle « catégorie » de bouchons baptisés PlantCorc™, fabriqués à partir de matière première durable et renouvelable, dérivée de la canne à sucre.
May 6-10 2019 Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
Premium Tasting Argentina August 15th and 16th
EWE 2020 takes place March 10-12 at the Lancaster County Convention Center & Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Vinventions is an exhibitor, see us at Booth 203.
Please join Vinventions at the PACK Conference and Tradeshow featuring the PACK Design Awards on August 4, 2020 at the Lincoln Theater, Yountville, California.
Le rendez-vous international des professionnels du vin à Paris Date : 10-12 février 2020 PARIS EXPO PORTE DE VERSAILLES https://www.wineparis.com/
C’est le rendez-vous incontournable de la filière des vins en grande distribution. Le jeudi 6 février 2020, Rayon Boissons et les Editions Dauvers organiseront la 12e édition des Ateliers du Vin. Un événement qui réunira à Paris plus de 200 participants dont une cinquantaine de distributeurs.
Premium Tasting Argentina
Held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington, in the heart of Washington wine country.
November 12, 2019 (SONOMA, CA) – Last year, Vinventions, the leading provider of complete wine closure solutions worldwide, launched the Wine Marketing Awards & “The Vinnies” to recognize excellence in wine marketing. Following the success of the 2018 event, the organization is proud to announce its continued partnership with Sonoma State University and Wine Business Monthly, along with Cork Supply USA, for the return of the Wine Marketing Awards in 2019.
"We aspire to provide closures to the wine business that offer improved elements as they relate to performance, design or sustainability. What we’re really trying to do is provide closures that other companies can’t. We’re not trying to be a distributor of products that other companies also distribute."
The founder of Nomacorc, Marc Noël has been an innovator and disrupter in the wine industry since 1999. That’s when he and his Belgian father, Gert Noël, launched a reliable synthetic wine closure that was free of cork taint and inexpensive. Now part of the company Vinventions, Nomacorc’s latest product range, Green Line, has taken wine closures to a new level of environmental sensitivity, as they’re made from sustainable, renewable sugarcane-based raw materials. Noël serves as founder and chairman of Vinventions, one of the world’s leading suppliers of wine closures. In 2018, Vinventions protected 2.8 billion bottles of wine with its closures.
The history of Cà dei Frati dates to early last century when in 1939, Felice Dal Cero moved to a little house in Lugana di Sirmione on the southern shore of Lake Garda. The grandfather of Igino Dal Cero immediately realized the area’s potential for vine cultivation.
"Building a Better Cork" has always been a driving force behind Vinventions, let's go deep into the journey of what has made our company, from the creation of Nomacorc in the 90s to the innovation of sustainable closures.
As the Born Digital Wine Awards come to its final stages for this year with some incredible shortlisted entries, we are compelled to share how the Innovation Awards entries went.
Thimister, Belgium and Zebulon, NC, USA (January 25, 2019)
Vinventions and Nomacorc founder, Marc Noël, sat down for a Q&A with Sean Sullivan of Wine Enthusiast to talk about wine closures, solving the issue of cork taint, and what's ahead for the company and innovation in closure sustainability.
TOP WINE CLOSURE SOLUTIONS PROVIDER, VINVENTIONS, LAUNCHES A STUDY TO UNDERSTAND THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN NOMACORC RESERVA & HIGH-END WINES IN CONSUMERS’ MINDS ZEBULON, NC, USA, and THIMISTER, Belgium (Dec. 4, 2018) — Vinventions, the most comprehensive wine closure solutions provider worldwide, has conducted highly innovative and leading-edge consumer research to test in an unbiased manner consumers’ perceptions of its Nomacorc PlantCorc™ closures. The sole objective of the research was to help answer the question, “To what extent does such a closure conform to the qualities of high-end wines?” Alternative closures are often framed as being far less appreciated than natural corks, but is that really true?
– Leading wine closure solutions provider commits to Circular Economy –
At Vinventions, we aspire for excellence because only in that manner we can offer the very best to our customers. We drive innovation harder and faster so that the wine industry and consumers can benefit from our more sustainable high-performance closures that already protect billions of bottles worldwide today. We embrace and believe in all wine closure types because there is not one perfect wine closure, but there are perfect closures based on our customers specific needs.
Vinventions and Nomacorc founder Marc Noël continues his legacy of disrupting the wine world with consistent out-of-the-box vision. Noël founded Nomacorc in 1999 to provide an efficiently produced, low-cost wine cork alternative at a time when natural wood corks were beset by TCA-taint. Among recent innovations for the company are Select Green, the first wine closure with zero carbon footprint, made from sugarcane, and SUBR, the world's first glue-free micro-agglomerated cork. Since January 2015, Nomacorc, Ohlinger Group and Syntek have joined Vinventions, and the company has created strategic partnerships with industry leaders like Cork Supply, a natural cork supplier.
One of the funniest viral videos doing the rounds on social media recently is a clip of increasingly frustrated Amazon Alexa users shouting instructions at the voice search assistant only to be repeatedly given the wrong information back. It seems the angrier a particular retired Scotsman becomes trying to get Alexa to play one of his favorite traditional Scottish folk songs, the less Alexa can understand him—offering him suggestions of John Denver instead.
Women have been organizing since cave-dwellers first gathered around fire (and surely, even before then). Our current era, though, finds women making modern history by uniting with a renewed and palpable urgency. While this trend may be too young to be measurable, it’s undeniable. In the wine business, it has materialized in a surge of activity among professional women’s organizations.
In an interview with the Drinks Business, Dr. Heino Freudenberg, CEO of Vinventions, explained why sustainability is a “competitive necessity” for wineries as it eyes up the “huge” mass-market potential of the first glue-free plant-based closure to hit the market.
“Coca-Cola once hoped to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. The same could be said for how the global wine industry tries to speak the same language when talking about wine. But is traditional wine education the right way to really engage with new trade members and consumers in both existing and emerging markets around the world?” asks Richard Siddle.
You know what “sustainable” means. Or do you?
If you want to throw the equivalent of a verbal hand grenade into a conversation amongst wine professionals then, other than natural wine, the issue of what type of closure people like, and why, is arguably one of the most contentious issues around.
This is part of a larger series of infographics on sustainability and the impact of closure-related wine faults.
More or less, each of us has an idea about what “shelf life” means for a food product: It’s “the length of time that a commodity may be stored without becoming unfit for use, consumption, or sale” (Wikipedia). Does this definition also apply to wine? After all, no wine label bears the words “best if consumed before…”—yet. Actually, though, shelf life is a notion that affects every kind of wine, from the fresh ones to the most aged ones because, as Vinventions researcher Stéphane Vidal says, it “is about having the right product at the right moment” and is apparently something of interest for all wine producers.
In the 1960s, the people of Valdeorras suffered. The Spanish Civil War and years under Francisco Franco had depressed the economy in this corner of green Galicia. The distinct language of Gallego was banned and swapped for Castilian Spanish. Rural flight led to abandoned vineyards. The remaining farmers had largely replanted with productive but unremarkable varieties like Palomino, after another scourge, phylloxera, decimated vines at the turn of the century.
