Companies that make wooden barrels and steel tanks couldn't churn them out them fast enough to meet demand from wineries and growers, like Black, who were looking for a place to put their juice. So Black, along with a growing number of winemakers in California, turned to plastic containers to ferment and store his valuable crop. “I went big into Flextanks last year, because I didn't have another option,” said Black, owner of Black Knight Vineyards. In an old barn surrounded by vineyards on his Santa Rosa property, Black keeps several plastic cylindrical barrels that he uses for his personal winemaking. A batch of pinot noir grapes ferment in a thick, blue plastic olive barrel that holds about 55 gallons of grapes and their steaming juices, while a series of 70-gallon Flextanks, made of a oxygen-permeable polyethylene, hold maturing pinot noir from the 2012 and 2013 crops. To read more, click here