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Video: Can you accept an “outside” weigh tag?
Tis the season! The grape harvest season is underway in parts of California, the west coast and other grape growing areas of the US. In the “compliance spirit” of the season I’ve once again been focusing my posts around harvest compliance topics, most recently I’m talking about the most common compliance document specific to the […]
Video: What fields are required to be on a weighmaster certificate (CA wineries)
The grape harvest of 2023 is grudgingly getting underway here in CA. So far, only a few stories have been shared about grapes rolling into wineries. Each year when grapes arrive at a winery (here in CA), if those grapes are being purchased means they must be documented on a weighmaster certificate. The weighmaster certificate […]
Video: Who needs a weighmaster license (CA wineries)
Harvest 2017 is about to begin here for US wineries. There are several compliance related topics that wineries need to be aware of, tracking correctly and reporting correctly. This then means that winery staff who are tasked with managing the required records and reports that are connected to harvest activities will have plenty of questions around […]
CA Wineries: Don’t let your ABC license get suspended by missing this report!
I hear frequently from winery staff here in California- frantically reaching out because their CA ABC type 02 license is either already suspended or in threat of being suspended. What was the source of this? Their lack of filing a required report that all CA wineries must file: the CA Board of Equalization (BOE) Winegrower […]
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 hold a license issued by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. (CDFA) This license is called the Processors license.In more recent […]
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 and the TTB label approval that is required to be submitted for it. (*In most […]
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 with your type 02 license renewals. The CA ABC gives numbers to all the different types of licenses they issue, and […]
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 all wine businesses that are the Alternating Proprietor type. To go one step further it also includes a group who have […]
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 handy resource available on the CA ABC’s website that I access frequently on behalf of clients and for other research […]
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 things winery compliance. This means I’ll be sharing some of the videos I create as my blog posts. This most recent […]
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 set them up under the cash payment type. For all US wineries and wine cellars when your TTB application […]
What is Up with the TTB site shut Downs?
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 to the now in effect non requirement for a TTB wine bond for permit holders that owe less than $50K per year […]
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 part of my conversation with the helpful woman who answered we mentioned that their staff numbers were reduced […]
Webinar: How to understand if your site qualifies to cancel your TTB wine bond
Wine Compliance Alliance will be hosting a training webinar on Tuesday, December 13th at 1 pm PST. The topic: Understanding if your winery qualifies to cancel your TTB wine bond in January 2017 The webinar will cover the following information: What is a TTB wine bond (& what it is NOT) How to determine if […]
