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APRESVIN RECOGNIZED AT THE “GREEN WASHINGTON” AWARDS CEREMONY |
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APRESVIN RECOGNIZED AT THE “GREEN WASHINGTON” AWARDS CEREMONY
Seattle, WA
September 23, 2010 – AprèsVin was recognized by the Seattle Business magazine as a leading Washington company that employs exemplary recycling and reuse practices at the magazine’s fourth annual Green Washington Awards Banquet which was held on September 23rd in Seattle. The Awards Program was established to recognize those companies that are in the forefront of making Washington State a greener place to live and work. |
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AprèsVin Receives 2010 Entrepreneurial Award |
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AprèsVin Receives 2010 Entrepreneurial Award
Richland, Washington
February 16, 2010 - AprèsVin was one of six companies selected to receive the 2010 Entrepreneurial Award which is a program jointly sponsored by the Richland Rotary Club, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tri-City Industrial Development Council (TRIDEC), and Port of Benton. The program was instituted in 1997 to recognize the importance of entrepreneurial spirit in the community for future economic diversification. The Awards spotlight businesses in Benton and Franklin Counties that show exceptional promise for the future. Nominations for the awards came from three community-based organizations involved in entrepreneurial support programs. AprèsVin was nominated for the Award by TRIDEC. The Award was presented to Drs. Eric Leber and Lori Ramonas, Co-Founders of AprèsVin, at a special ceremony during the February 16th meeting of the Rotary Club. |
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Published Sunday, April 8th, 2007 in the Tri-City Herald
By Mary Hopkin, Herald staff writer
PROSSER -- Eric Leber and his wife, Lori Ramonas, are squeezing a new gourmet product out of the area’s wine grape industry.
The West Richland couple is extracting the oil from varietal wine grapes, infusing some with lime, chipotle or French herbs and bottling them through their new business, AprèsVin.
Leber, a former chemistry professor at Heritage University in Toppenish, challenged his students several years ago to uncover as many uses as possible for the agriculture waste left over from the area's growing wine industry.
"They came up with 42 different products -- paper, creams, biofuels..." he said.
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Two Prosser Men Find Solution to Wine-Making Dilemma |
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Broadcast on KNDU-TV July 20, 2007
Kennewick -- The number of wineries in the area continues to multiply, but with the wine-making process comes a dilemma.
The problem is the tons of by-products left behind after vintners extract the juice from the grape. Many years ago, a local man began to ponder the problem of what to do with what many might simply consider 'waste.'
In the last five to six years, Dr. Eric Leber, a semi- retired chemist from the Tri-Cities, has come up with 50 different products that can be made from the by-products of wine making. Among those: varietal grape-seed oils, flour for baking, soaps, and skin lotions. Those are the more tame of the solutions he has engineered.
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Striking Oil in Winery Waste |
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Transcript from Northwest Public Radio April20, 2007
By Tom Banse PROSSER, Wash. - Après Vin founders Eric Leber (far right) and Lori Ramonas conduct a grape seed oil tasting with Jim Early of FruitSmart, Inc
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An enterprising Northwest couple is striking oil in other people's garbage. The garbage in this case is the tons and tons of crushed stems, skins and grape seeds generated by our region's booming wine industry. Correspondent Tom Banse reports from Prosser on the value that might hide in those winemaking leftovers.
The best way to explain this might be to start where I started... at an oil tasting. That's kind of like a wine tasting, but with breadcubes and little cups of flavored oils. |
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