Bilton Wines, Prestigious South African Wine Producer, Has Chosen Bubble Seal™ To Guarantee The Authenticity And Quality Of Their Wine

Online, March 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - To ensure the origin of their bottles for clients all over the world, South African Bilton has chosen to secure their finest wines with Bubble Seal™ by Prooftag. This protection is put in place with an individual tag secured over the seal of the bottle, which also guarantees the bottle has not been previously opened. With Bubble Seal™, the consumer is able to verify the bottle via Internet or mobile device and obtain relevant information detailing the wine. Quality, traceability and authenticity are all guaranteed for the customer.

Bilton is the first South African premium producer to join the exclusive club of vineyards using Bubble Tag™ technology to ensure and protect their wine. Bubble Tag™ represents a unique opportunity for consumers to ensure the origin of the bottles and discover the universe of Bilton.
"Premium wines are uniformly targeted for forgery and swindle. Producers counter this with technology like our Bubble Seal™," declares Franck Bourrières, Director Marketing and Sales at Prooftag. "With the confidence that we grant Bilton Wines, Prooftag positions itself as a reference supplier of anti-counterfeit solutions perfect for new wine production regions like South Africa or Chile," Franck Bourrières concludes.

About Bilton Wines
The Bilton vineyards lie nestled at the foothills of the beautiful Helderberg Mountains, Stellenbosch, where they have been nourished by deep, rich soil and cooled by fresh ocean breezes blowing in which provide ideal, cool conditions for grapes to ripen slowly and develop an abundance of flavour.

Bilton's intriguing history can be traced back to 1684 and has been in the Bilton family since1959. Blessed with arguably the best terroir in the country, we use only the best grapes to produce our ultra premium wines that are made in an old-world-style that reflects the distinctive character of our terroir.

Situated in a corridor of both unique and spectacular plant and animal life, we embrace our responsibility to steward well our natural resources. We are a member of the Biodiversity and Wine Initiative, a partnership between the wine industry and the conservation sector. Our farming practices encourage our vineyards as a bio diverse habitat, ensuring landscapes that are living and productive. Bilton focuses only on grape varieties best suited to the terroir, therefore specific slopes, soil and micro-climatic conditions were identified for the planting of its noble cultivars.

About Prooftag
Prooftag was founded in 2004 by Novatec, a laboratory dedicated to electronic research. While processing an adhesive in 1999, Novatec discovered spontaneous bubbles within the polymer were formed. What was initially an accidental discovery has ingeniously been transformed into Bubble Tag™.

Since 2004, Bubble Tag™ has been instrumental in numerous cases of brand protection (more than 25 applications in vineyards, watch-making, jewelers, gemology certificates). The high level of security conferred by Bubble Tag™ has allowed the group to expand into document security. Several governments choose Bubble Tag™ to protect their documents.