Video: Reporting your wine loss numbers from wildfire damage to the TTB
The catastrophic wildfires here in Napa and Sonoma county are now at close to full containment. For winery staff this means they are getting back to finishing up with the grape harvest and monitoring their existing fermentation already underway when the fires started...Video: US wineries do you know what “produced by fermentation” means on your reports and labels?
As harvest of 2017 continues on across the US many wineries have already “produced” new wines from this year’s grape crop. That term, “produced” has a very specific definition to the federal regulating agency, the TTB. And at the source...Video: Connecting your grape weigh tags to your wine labels
There is a lot of what I call “connecting the dots” when it comes to winery records compliance. Two examples of those “compliance dots” are the grape weigh tags being created at wineries right now and the labels on the wines they will...Video: Common tare info for wineries using macro bins for their grape loads
The macro bin. These heavyweight plastic bins that have become the go-to container for transporting grapes at harvest time. (and for many winery sites using them as fementation vessels too!) Here in California from a weighing standpoint they are in the group of...Page 2 of 5