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Reference reading: - BATF Winery Compliance Materials
- Yair Margalit, "Winery Technology and Operations Handbook", Wine Appreciation Guild, 1990
- Boulton, Bisson, and Singleton, "Principles and Practices of Winemaking", Chapman and Hall, 1995
The three phases of the wine businessFruit- rootstock
- varietals and clones
- appellations, ranches, plots, rows, vines
- growers, contracts, contract management
- yields: tons/acre, gallons/ton: variance
- harvest timing and scheduling: crusher and tankage capacity
- chemical properties: sugar, acid
- ag chemicals: fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides: records and regulatory constraints
- irrigation, weather monitoring
- trellis design and vineyard cost vs yield
- software classification: agri systems, irrigation systems: related software: orchard management
- end users of reports: vineyard manager, winemaker, contracts manager, california ag extension, epa
- related systems: vineyard accounting
Bulk wine- capacity and scheduling: tankage, barrelage, crusher, staff, chemicals, refrigeration
- crush and fluid transfer: yields, analysis, chemical additions, losses, tank/barrel-tank locations
- barrel database: bar coding / barrel events
- fermentation conditions, temperature, secondary fermentation, yeast types
- analysis, sensory characteristics, physical characteristics, age
- internal transfers, filtration, treatment: condition of tanks
- external bulk wine transfers: input/output
- cellar operations management
- integration with accounting functions: accounts payable, cost allocation and accumulation, vendor mgt, labor mgt
- vendors: wineery systems from vahl, gulson, ams, campbell
- end users of reports: winemaker, cellar manager, accounting, batf
Case goods- blending: distinction between blends and bulk wine
- sales analysis, tasting room pos
- batf compliance reporting / wine tracking
- transfer to bottles: volume translation to "cases" / bottle size
- dry goods, bottling supplies management and costing
- labeling data
- case goods inventory tracking: in-bond and tax-paid transfers
- warehouse and movements of case goods: warehouse interface: bar coding
- sales analysis / wine allocations / broker commissions, distributor bill back
- customer / wine club mailing lists
- distributor mgt, order entry, distributor depletion budgeting
- integration with accounting functions: accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial statements, profitability analysis
- long range planning: 10-year sales forecast: grape contract management, winery capacity and capital financing
- end user: marketing, sales, accounting
Links:university links (cornell, ucdavis, fresno state, srjc, oregon state)amazon links (books on vineyard and winery management)other linksvendors web sites |
