Session 2: New Regulations Impacting the Wine Industry Date & Time: Wednesday, April 10th – 10:00 AM (PT) Seemingly, each year brings new laws and regulations that impact the wine industry and present a maze of compliance issues. This session will feature four experts addressing four areas where...

The calendar tells facility and QA managers that it’s time to schedule a year-end review to see how their pest management programs are performing, and where improvements can be made. The year-end review embodies two distinctly different elements – a program review, and an annual risk assessment....

Three states have added fulfillment house requirements for DTC shippers this year, bringing the total number of states with these requirements to sixteen. The requirements vary. Some states have established licenses or registrations for fulfillment houses; others require specific reports and/or...

WHY WEBSITE UPDATES ARE IMPORTANT (AND HOW TO KNOW IF YOU NEED ONE) I can feel your eye-rolls and hear your inner voice about this topic. You already have a website. It works fine. You spent good money to develop it two, three, maybe four years ago. Why do you need to worry about it when so many...

Happy New Year! It is time to dust off the employee handbook, review your policies and procedures, and make sure they comply with all the new laws, regulations, and interpretations that have either already gone into effect or will in early 2024. Below, we have identified our “top 10(ish)” changes....

Overview The on-premise national accounts arena is one of the most complex, expensive, and time-consuming channels to pursue in the wine sales game — it’s also the most misunderstood! This guide will help set you up for success and shave months (if not years) off the learning curve. Keep an open...

In advance of our traditional list of relevant employment law updates issued every January, we would like to bring your attention to some changes that will require edits to your hiring practices and edits to your handbooks. I. Pay Scale and Data Reporting Effective January 1, 2023: All employers...

The answer to the blog title is the point of the Annual SVB Direct to Consumer Videocast, which is taking place this coming Wednesday, June 15th. You can sign up to receive the SVB DtC Report, receive a link to the live presentation, and a post-conference link to the videocast replay ----> [HERE.]...

by Steve Fredricks We are now well past a relatively uneventful and smaller harvest, particularly in the North Coast, mask mandates have been lifted in most areas, and on-premise sales continue to rebound. Overall, the industry seems to be a taking a collective deep breath to assess the current...

Selling Wine in a Pandemic What an insane past few years! But doesn't it feel wonderful to be moving into spring and at the same time into the endemic phase of this crisis? With fewer mask mandates now, maybe we'll be able to smell the spring flowers! But before we linger too long on the warmer...