Australian Vintage Ltd. has opened a new bottling facility at its Merbein site in Victoria. The company has made an AUD 11 million ($7.8 million) investment in the project to support both sparkling and still wine bottling for its McGuigan, Tempus Two and Nepenthe brands. The facility will be able to package still and sparkling wines at 11,000 and 7,000 bottles per hour respectively. Australian Vintage anticipates that the investment will also significantly speed up its product innovation pipeline and enable it to launch new wines more quickly in response to growing consumer demand.