Posts by Ann:
Woops Wineries……….did you spill something?
June 13th, 2013I just recently read a story about a spill that happened at a winery where a tank holding 7,500 gallons of wine had a bolt break, causing the wine to spill out and head rapidly down the drain.
I've actually seen a few of these wine loss events happen over the years at different wineries and definitely the bulk of the activity happens frantically as the scene originally unfolds. Cellar crew scrambling madly to catch the wine spraying out from the tank and re-direct it into another one to minimize the overall loss as much as possible. A pretty incredible event to watch to see the crew spring into action and coordinate their efforts to manage the chaos as best as possible.
But what about afterwards? After the frenzy has died down, wine gallons have gone down the drain, and the rest have been relocated into other tanks/vessels? Do you know what details need to be sent to the TTB to inform them of the wine loss?
Guess what Alternating Proprietors? You CAN take your COLAs with you!
June 5th, 2013Today's blog post is for anyone who either is an Alternating Proprietor (AP) or is a site that hosts them & offers TTB label approval submission assistance. I just learned this newest TTB update twist last week that can save you some time when planning for your bottlings- by eliminating the need for the label approval step in that process. Here's the scenario I'm talking about. One of the advantages as an AP is that since you are sharing the space of an already existing winery if you decide you need a change of scenery you can pick up and "move your winery" to another site that hosts AP's. Now after you've made that move, how does it then impact your label approval activities?
Need To Learn Winemaking Compliance? Fast?
May 28th, 2013Ahhh winemaking compliance………..always everyone's favorite topic. Yes I am saying that facetiously, but yet at the same time I'm quite serious about helping people "get it right" when it comes to making heads or tails of their compliance systems. And that is what they are………….systems. Systems that all have certain specific parts that fit together in very specific ways, and I'll be explaining all of that once again in my next class at Napa Valley College starting June 17th.