Ruby Red
Ruby Red
CaseTrace PTI Compliance Solution Selected by Ruby Red Harvest
The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is an industry-wide effort chartered by the Produce Marketing Association, United Fresh Produce Association, and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, and is aimed at creating a traceability process that will enable the quick and efficient electronic tracking and tracing of produce cases between supply chain members. The PTI’s Action Plan for achieving chain-wide, electronic traceability was created by a steering committee of 50+ produce companies representing every facet of the produce supply chain and through the support of additional trade associations in both the United States and Canada.
TraceGains, Inc., the leader in affordable turnkey Produce Traceability Initiative compliance and labeling software, is proud to announce that Ruby Red Harvest is the latest produce company to choose TraceGains’ CaseTrace PTI™ software to rapidly achieve Produce Traceability Initiative compliance.
TraceGains’ CaseTrace PTI (www.tracegainspti.com) software installs on any PC and is a one-time investment to generate PTI-compliant GS1-128 style labels. The software also helps growers, packers, and shippers of fresh produce to build and manage their GTIN catalogs. CaseTrace PTI is available directly from TraceGains and also through a growing network of resellers providing labeling, packaging, and system integration solutions specifically to the produce industry. Labeling and traceability solutions for field-packed produce are also available from TraceGains.
“We are very pleased that we are beginning to see a wider adoption of our solution in the produce industry. Ruby Red Harvest easily achieved full PTI compliance within one day, and are continuing to benefit from our decade-long focus on food traceability systems,” says Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, Inc.
About TraceGains, Inc.
TraceGains offers affordable turnkey Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) compliance solutions for companies of all sizes. The company’s CaseTrace PTI, FieldPack PTI, LabelTrace, and GTIN Sync solution portfolio helps growers, packers, and shippers for fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, easily meet PTI, Country of Origin Labeling, and retailer-specific labeling and traceability requirements. The company is headquartered in Longmont, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
TraceGains Inc.
Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
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A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - A Southern Italian Basic Red
I am quite a fan of fine Italian wine, and have managed to taste and review at least one wine from each of Italy's twenty regions. This column has examined several bargain Italian wines. Today we look at a red wine from Apulia, also known as Puglia. This region is second in Italian wine production to Sicily. Both Apulia and Sicily have made major efforts to upgrade their wine quality; in general, Sicily has been more successful.
This red wine is based on Apulia's most popular grape, Negroamaro, which means black and bitter. This is one of the ten most copmmonly grown grapes in Italy. The wine reviewed below is distributed by a high-volume exporter. We're talking about an annual volume of 25 million bottles and over 4 million 3-liter bag in a box wines. This may explain the price. What about the quality? Keep reading.
OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY All wines that we taste and review are purchased at the full retail price.
Wine Reviewed Mezzomondo Negroamaro Salento, 2007 13.5% alcohol about $7.50
Let's start with the marketing materials. Tasting Note: Deep ruby-red color; aromas of green leaf and cherry; smooth texture with ripe cherry, plum and woody flavors; long, cherry finish. Serving Suggestion: Pizza, pasta, or burgers. And now for my review.
At first tasting the wine had great length and a lot of extract. It wasn't complex but was definitely chewy. The initial meal involved slow-cooked beef stew with potatoes. The wine was powerful and well-balanced. Caramel flavor was dominant. The side dish was eggplant with its skin on roasted in lots of oil with onions and red peppers. The Negroamaro tasted of dark fruit and was fairly long. Adding green jalapeno pepper sauce to the meat intensified the caramel taste and the wine seemed sweet.
The second meal was a packaged vegetable lasagna doused with grated parmesan cheese. The wine actually thinned out. There was some dark fruit and virtually no tannins.
The final meal was based on fried chicken livers doused with lots of black pepper. The Negroamaro tasted of dark cherries; its tannins were round but not very present. The whole combo wasn't bad. All those cherries made me think of Valpolicella. The fairly spicy lime and garlic tomato salsa muted this wine a bit. Then I tried something unusual. Fresh pineapple goes well with Maraschino cherries. But not with the cherries in this wine.
I finished the tasting with two cheeses. The first cheese was a provolone. The wine became somewhat too acidic and continued to taste of dark cherries. With a Swiss cheese (Emmenthaler) the wine started slow but got better and fruitier over time. It really wasn't up to the quality of the cheese.
Final verdict. In many ways this is a good wine for the price. If I were a fan of cherries in my wine, I would buy it again.
About the Author
Levi Reiss authored or co-authored ten computer and Internet books, but prefers drinking fine wine with the right foods and people. He teaches computers at an Ontario French-language community college. His global wine website
www.theworldwidewine.com
features a weekly review of $10 wines and new sections writing about and tasting organic and kosher wines. Visit his Italian travel website
www.travelitalytravel.com
.