Video: Buying grapes from a CA grower? You need this license
Harvest 2017 is coming up quickly which means many wine businesses are well into grape contracts for the season. Here in California any individual or business that purchases wine grapes is required to
Read More »Video: Who is ALWAYS responsible for obtaining a TTB label approval?
TTB label approvals, or COLAs as they are referred to in the wine world. A topic that I hear no shortage of questions around. Not at all surprising really since there is a lot going on around a wine label
Read More »CA wineries: Time to renew your ABC licenses
Here in California if you are in business as a winery, which is known as a “Winegrower” with our Alcoholic Beverage Control agency by now you would have more than likely received a mailing
Read More »Home winemaker in Napa? You can become a licensed winery at your house.
According to the California ABC's website there are currently 1,491 type 02 license holders in Napa County. The type 02 license, or Winegrower is what a winery holds. To further clarify this does include
Read More »California wine businesses: Do you know how to lookup your California ABC license details?
If you are in the business of making, importing or selling wine in California then you, or your business hold a license with the California Alcoholic Beverage control department. (or CA ABC) There is a
Read More »Napa County wineries: Do you know what your Use Permit conditions are?
For anyone who has been a regular reader of my posts these past several years I'm now branching out my marketing "portfolio" by regularly creating Youtube videos for the topics that I discuss around all
Read More »The TTB is giving wineries their money back!
Money back from the TTB? Yes you read that correctly, I've already seen it several times myself in the last few weeks. These monies are refund payments for TTB wine bonds for those wineries who originally
Read More »What is Up with the TTB site shut Downs?
As I shared in an earlier blog post we've already become unhappily accustomed to slower response times when dealing w/the TTB. Now this week out of nowhere two of their main website electronic filing platforms
Read More »TTB wine bond cancellation applications moving through quickly. Demo videos now live!
What a pleasant winery compliance surprise! A TTB application that moves quickly through to approval! (You learn to be grateful for simple things in my line of work) These applications being in reference
Read More »The federal hiring freeze & what it means for US wineries
Earlier this week I was talking to the TTB offices in Cincinnati. I regularly reach out to them by phone to follow up on applications I’ve submitted for clients, which was the reason for my call. As
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