International wine competition highlights innovation
Waterloo Container introduces new award
Sixty-six wine professionals from around the world judged the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition and later visited award-winning Finger Lakes wineries and attended a lunch at Waterloo Container in Waterloo, N.Y. The lunch-and-learn event featured three of the top beverage packaging manufacturers in the U.S. introducing new packaging innovations. These are innovations that can be expected on the shelves next to wines – or maybe holding wines – in the very near future.
Speakers at the luncheon included Ted Ramsey, Amcor Stelvin; Walter Schaefer, Ardagh and Wes Ward, Nomacorc. Waterloo’s new training facility made its debut during the education session, which included screw top closures, new wine bottles and a zero-carbon footprint cork made from sugar cane.
Stelvin is introducing a wine screw cap closure, the Stelvin P, for sparkling beverages. The new closure withstands up to six bars of internal pressure, effectively protecting carbonated beverages while controlling the OTR levels in the bottle, the company says.