Vineyard & Winery Management magazine appointed Tina Caputo editor-in-chief. Caputo previously served as managing editor of Wines & Vines magazine, part of the Wine Communications Group family of publications. Caputo has also worked for Maisons Marques & Domaines USA and Wine Institute. Caputo has more than a dozen years of wine journalism experience, writing and editing for a variety of trade and consumer publications. She began her career 15 years ago at Wine Institute in San Francisco, and worked in public relations and marketing for several years before becoming a full-time wine writer. She has contributed to several publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Review Online, Harpers, Meininger's Wine Business International and US Airways magazine. Caputo replaces Graham Parnell, the managing editor of Vineyard & Winery Management since 1998. Executive editor Tom Loid of Watkins Glen, New York and East Coast editor Richard Leahy of Charlottesville, Virginia remain with the publication.

Pacific Rim has hired Steve Doyle as national vice president of sales. Doyle, formerly senior vice president of sales and national sales manager for Pacific Wine Partners (a division of Constellation Brands), will oversee all sales efforts in the U.S. and abroad for Pacific Rim.

Prolific Dutch wine writer Hubrecht Duijker has been awarded the Order of Oranje Nassau by the Dutch government. Duijker has just published his 110th book on wine--on the best white and Rosé wines currently available. Duijker's first book was published in 1973. His work includes The Bordeaux Atlas and Encyclopaedia of Châteaux, Wines of Chile, The Wine Atlas of France and Traveller's Guide to the Vineyards (with Hugh Johnson) and Wines of the Loire, Alsace and Champagne. He has won numerous awards including Wine Communicator of the Year, the Glenfiddich Award and the Julia Child Award. He is an Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole (France) and Oficial de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Spain).    

Paul Heinicke has been appointed brand development manager for the Barossa Valley Estate winery (BVE). Heinicke moves from running his own consulting company. Prior to this he was the vice-president sales and marketing for North America. BVE was set up by a group of grape growers in 1984, becoming a public company in 1999. Now jointly owned by the grape growers and the Hardy Wine Company, it is part of the Constellation Brands Group. Its leading wine is E & E Black Pepper Shiraz.

French producer Chamarré has appointed Anne Blois as its commercial director. She replaces Regis d'Indy. Blois has previous worked for Courvoisier, Allied Domecq in London, J Moreau & Fils in Chablis (Burgundy) and Marie Brizard in Bordeaux.

U.K. wine company Alliance Wine has appointed Garech Byrne to its agency team to look after its independent retailers and wholesale customers. Previously he worked for five years with the now defunct Orbital Wines, selling South African wine. Lesley Stevenson has been promoted to the purchasing and marketing department with responsibility for organization of exhibitions, generic tastings, PR and website updates.