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Business Resources (see also Production Resources)
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Advertising
"new". Can Stock Photo (search for "wine") has over 14,000 inexpensive wine-themed photos to source for publications, presentations, website design, etc.

Consumer Issues & Organizations
International Standard Wine Number a timely idea and boon to both consumers and producers (especially for artisanal producers or esoteric appellations) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

n2vin home dispensing/preservation systems

Finances & Operations (see also Production Resources)
eSkye - solutions, integration and outsourcing of beverage depletion data

Inertia Beverage - solutions for direct sales & allocation management

Invensure - insurance for wineries

"new". Live Asset Insurance - insurance for vineyards

Virtual Winery - financial and production forecasting for winery operations


Restaurant & Retail Operations
Beverage Handbooks targets on-sale, off-sale, and compliance segments of the industry

Cameron Publications directed to the hospitality trade

Oz Winebars commercial dispensing/preservation systems

Restaurant Report promotes better restaurant wine service HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Economics and Statistics
A.C. Nielson Winescan -
retail economic data

Advanced Management Systems (AMS) wine industry integrated information systems to track, operate, and report everything from planting a vineyard to allocating bottles

American Association of Wine Economists is a non-profit organization that publishes a journal; this link might also qualify in the Marketing category

Bergman Euro-National - an excellent article on California vineyard economics

California Wine Institute - Industry background and statistics.

DISCUS - The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States - excise tax and revenue information

Gomberg-Fredricson - monthly economic statistics and market analysis, as well as related historical data

Motto, Kryla & Fisher - vineyard and winery accounting

National Association of Beverage Importers - monthly import statistics

Simmons Market Research - demographic consumption surveys

UC Davis Cost and Return Studies - downloadable California regional info on costs and returns of establishing various types of vineyards

Virtual Winery - financial and production forecasting for winery operations

Wine Industry Technology Symposium - annual interdisciplinary conference in Napa Valley

WSN Systems Corporation - producer to consumer systems for eCommerce, logistics, and compliance, etc.


General Publications
Beverage Network features news & press releases.

Practical Winery & Vineyard

Small Winery Magazine

Vineyard & Winery Management

Wine Business OnLine and Wine Business Monthly provides news and information for professionals in all aspects of the industry (subscription required for full access). RECOMMENDED

WineMaker Magazine

Wines & Vines is one of the oldest wine industry publications. Their website homepage has many categories of wine news that branch farther and delve deeper than mere wine consumption, always containing information of interest and amusement. The annual Wines & Vines Directory is the master rolodex for wine commerce in the US. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED


Legal
Beer and Wine Services, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in local, state, and federal compliance and offers a software package for interstate shipping

Compliance Service of America consults regarding local, state, and federal licensing and regulation for all levels of the alcoholic beverage industry, nationwide

Conformia produces "vine to bottle" software for production and compliance management

Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty is a law partnership specializing in the wine and hospitality industry

Hinman & Carmichael, Attorneys dedicated to making the world a safe place for fine wine.

Richard M. Gahagan regulatory consultant for beverage alcohol, winery compliance

Ship Compliant allows wineries to customize a FREE printable poster showing legal-to-ship states.

US Treasury, BATF

WineLaw: US Compliance Information

(To find information regardinjg specific state laws, use Google to search for "(state name) Alcohol Compliance".)


Marketing Firms (also see our links to Trade Associations and Marketing Groups)

Academy of Wine Communications is a wine industry public relations firm

AgriDesigns are specialists in graphic and web site design for the agriculture industry

Benson Marketing does wine industry-only Public Relations, Direct Marketing, Website Design, and Brand Consulting from their offices in Napa Valley and New York City.

Cultivate Systems offer a package for winery-direct online sales

eSkye - solutions, integration and outsourcing of beverage depletion data

Intwine Marketing - multiple advertising & marketing services

J.A.M. PR specializes in marketing and public relations for wine

New Level Group - sales, marketing, and management consulting for small to mid-size wineries and nonprofit organizations

New Vine Logistics - dedicated to increasing consumer base through order fulfillment and compliance

Technology Consulting Alliance, developers of WineryPro™ software for small winery sales and marketing management

VinterActive provides wineries consumer-direct online sales research and solutions

Wines-Info provides information about the wine market in China.

Winetracker logistics management and tracking software for bottling and marketing


Politics
A few Distributor Megalo-glomerates have joined with Neo-Prohibitionist Inquisitors to spread propaganda and promote foul-smelling protectionist legislation; their agenda is pro-big business, anti-free enterprise and anti-consumer. Learn the truth and fight back with the links below.

Free the Grapes promotes interstate direct shipping, so that all consumers will have access to small-production wines.

Ship My Wine, Kevin Atticks' advocacy site for wine consumers in Maryland has information that should concern wine lovers in any state with similar prohibitions on wine shipping, especially on the "Who's Who - Pro/Con" and "Info and Resources" pages.

Winegrape Growers of America serves as a communication link between growers in various states and lobbies Washington on behalf of their common issues.

Wine America, the National Association of American Wineries, is a lobbying and compliance support organization based in upstate New York.

 

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