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Real-time compliance solutions to ensure you efficiently meet federal and state regulations for DtC shipping and three-tier distribution
WWI members enjoy a discount with Sovos ShipCompliant
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For 20 years, our partners Sovos ShipCompliant has helped wineries avoid compliance mistakes that risk fines, losses and unwanted scrutiny that can result in potential delays to market.
Sovos ShipCompliant can help make sure your DTC shipping is always in compliance and you experience smooth sailing as your wine club and other shipments head out the door. Their cloud-based software offers real-time compliance checks and tax determination so your DtC shipping operations stay healthy (not subject to penalties, fines, or worse) for the long haul. On top of that, their Delivery Experience solution helps you deliver top-notch customer service around shipping in this age of Amazon and a new level of comfort/desire to have wine delivered to a customer's home.
On the wholesale side, Sovos ShipCompliant offer solutions that streamline and manage state gallonage and excise reporting, COLA submissions, brand/label registrations and tax compliance.
Washington Wine Institute members that are new or renewing Sovos ShipCompliant customers receive a 10% discount off a one-year contract of any Sovos ShipCompliant product.
Want to learn more? Reach out to your existing Sovos ShipCompliant account executive, or you can send a note via their website, or directly to shipcompliantsales@sovos.com.
Foster Garvey: Trusted Legal Counsel for Washington's Wine Industry
Foster Garvey serves as a legal partner to Washington's wine industry, offering guidance on the regulatory, business and operational challenges unique to wineries, distributors and retailers. With a team well-versed in alcohol beverage law, we help clients navigate licensing, compliance and growth with confidence.
From boutique vineyards to established producers, our Alcohol Beverage practice provides practical solutions for:
- Licensing & permitting (TTB, WA Liquor & Cannabis Board)
- Labeling approvals and marketing compliance
- Distribution agreements and franchise protections
- Trade practice compliance and dispute resolution
- International trade (import/export regulations, tariffs)
Foster Garvey attorneys bring firsthand knowledge of Washington's wine landscape, working closely with businesses across the supply chain, from production to retail. By simplifying complex regulations, we help clients stay focused on their craft while protecting their interests.
Business Email mlbuck@fedex.com
As a Washington Wine Institute member, you’re entitled to significant savings on select FedEx® shipping services. You also benefit from more than a decade of experience and expertise in wine shipping. That’s the FedEx Advantage® — another great advantage for members of the Washington Wine Institute. Enroll today and pour on the savings.
Save more with fee waiver and bonus discounts.
As an added bonus, you can save 67% on the Adult Signature Required (ASR) fee with your Washington Wine Institute membership. You may also be able to save an additional 2% on FedEx Express and FedEx Ground shipments if you average more than $20,000 in annual shipping with FedEx. (Contact your FedEx account executive to see if you qualify.)
Getting started with FedEx Delivery Manager® is free, quick, and easy.
Take a closer look at all the options available to your residential customers at fedex.com/delivery.
Business Email ben.sappington@mossadams.com
The wine industry faces significant business challenges: rapid industry consolidation, unprecedented levels of international competition, changing consumer preferences, and increasingly complex risk management issues. We've been there every step of the way as advisors to more than 300 wineries and vineyards across the United States. Each has its own unique challenges and we're eager to help find the right solutions.
Here are some of those time-consuming challenges that we can help with:
- Environmental, labor, and safety regulations
- Competitive industry intelligence
- Effective management of growth and opportunity
- Financing and lender relationships
- Financial reporting and financial planning
- Federal, state, and local taxes
We serve more wine clients than any other CPA firm. As the nation's largest wine accounting and consulting practice, we stay ahead of critical issues by immersing ourselves in the information stream and playing an active role in the industry. Our goal is to help equip your business with the fundamental financial and operational strength it needs to grow and thrive so you can focus on what you love most—the art of creating great wine. Learn more at www.mossadams.com/wine
Business Email arose@synergybai.com
Office Supplies, Furniture, Print Services, Promotional Products & More Program Highlights
-1300+ deeply discounted high-use commodity items
-Ability to customize your own list of 75 discounted items specific to your organization
-Fast and free delivery on qualifying orders of $50 or more within our local delivery areas
-Dedicated Account Manager supported by product specialists and an award winning customer service team
-Convenient, one-stop purchasing for all your office essentials, as well as copy and print services, furniture, promotional products, cleaning supplies technology, and more
-Discount program for all your employees
WWI Members can register for this program online at: https://wwi.wine/odp-business-solutions
Business Email michaelt@vintnerslogisticsllc.com
Since 2007 owner Robert Thompson and his team have been focused on working with individual winery's needs and offer a wide selection of services including:
- Temperature controlled bonded wine warehousing
- Temperature controlled transportation of wine locally, regionally and nationally
- Direct to consumer fulfillment
- Alliance with Fed Ex to provide national Cold Chain Solutions for DTC customers
- New wine barrel distribution for coopers
- Sanitation processes in place to ensure a TCA free warehouse and fleet
- Product consolidation and cross docking to help reduce transportation costs
- Empty bin and wine grape transportation from vineyard to the winery
- Quality new wine bottle options from the USA & Asia
What is the Vintners Logistics Difference?
It begins with their people — highly trained, committed, passionate people who are committed to us long-term — people who receive a competitive wage and benefits package that rewards and encourages their continued dedication not only to our company, but to you.
The Vintners Logistics difference continues with their processes — golden rule customer service, phenol-free environments and cleaning products, experienced logistics planning and execution, and compliance with all government regulations, ensuring that your products are handled safely and securely. Vintners Logistics offers technology so you can track and trace your products while in our secure, temperature-controlled and ambient-air distribution centers or on our modern, environmentally-friendly fleet of trucks.
Vintners Logistics' passion is to provide solutions for your unique needs. To contact Robert and his team today, simply call them at 509-783-5544.
Thanks to our patented technology, Vinovae transforms a single bottle of wine into 14 elegant miniatures, each preserving the wine's complete organoleptic qualities. For over 8 years, we've partnered with the wine industry, helping hundreds of wineries expand their reach and connect with more customers at a lower cost. We also offer fully customizable branding options, including personalized labels, tasting boxes, and gift packaging to beautifully showcase your wines.
Whether you're looking to:
Boost wine club memberships
Re-engage lapsed members (20% average increase)
Enhance group tasting experiences
Increase sales with unique wine gifts
Our mini bottles can help you reach these goals!"
Contact: Ed Schulz / ed@barrelassociates.com / 707.477.2305
Business Email info@BottleThreeSixty.com
Bottle360: Powerful, Affordable, Feature Rich DTC Winery Software Platform
With over 25 years of expertise in DTC software, retail, ecommerce, and payment systems and a staff filled with wine industry professionals, Bottle360 truly understands the needs and challenges of winery consumer operations.
Our mission is to make software easy, intuitive and flexible to use, while saving wineries time, money, and unnecessary frustration. Bottle360 has become the most trusted, knowledgeable DTC software and only solution with deeper, built-in features that no other all-in-one winery platform offers.
Today, we provide a complete, highly sophisticated platform that is delivering increased sales and higher average orders with some Bottle360 wineries seeing an increase as high as 28%. Adding the amount of savings Bottle360 delivers, which goes straight to profits, means wineries are able to invest in other resources like additional staff or marketing they might not otherwise afford. We are proud and passionate about helping our winery clients.
Our software includes:
- An all-in-one solution with more robust core features of Point of Sale, Classic and Subscription Club and eCommerce that work well and make the task easier
- Installations made easy with In-house data migration and website matching all done for your winery
- Integrations to the 3rd party platforms wineries need, such as UPS, FedEx, RedChirp, Klayvio, ShipCompliant, Fort Shipping, and more
- WineWallet™ Highly Customizable subscription, loyalty and rewards points program
- Average 33% savings over all competitors
- Highly responsive ongoing 24/7/365 live support with no hold time and no phone tree. Email support with an average response within 30 minutes
Plus, we provide unique benefits wineries can choose to implement that no other platform offers, such as continuous feature enhancements driven by customer feedback, bulk printing of shipping labels without 3rd party clunky apps, inventory across all locations on POS and Admin, change ship to P/U or P/U to ship on POS, customize ship dates, change address after processed, create club members from POS, broadcast the winery's live shipping rates on e-commerce and POS, flexible ways to separate tasting samples, segment club by state, reds, whites, and more before processing, just to name a few.
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Business Email sdefife@gpi.org
Founded in 1919 as the Glass Container Association of America, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is the trade association representing the North American glass container industry. On behalf of glass container manufacturers and their supply chain partners, GPI promotes glass as the optimal packaging choice, advances environmental and recycling policies, advocates industry standards, and educates packaging professionals.
Business Email info@winemakersdepot.com
At Winemakers Depot we provide an exceptional selection of equipment and supplies at competitive prices from some of the best manufacturers from around the world. We are a Direct, and in most cases, Exclusive Dealer for almost everything we sell, which aids us in our ability to provide unparalleled service and support. In addition to providing great products and service we enjoy and embrace the exchange of ideas, trends and technology with others who share our enthusiasm and desire to grow and develop our industries.
Business Email hello@werisewines.com
At WeRise, we are on a mission to reshape the beverage industry one glass at a time starting with wine.
Why are we so passionate about this mission? It’s because Black winemakers make up less than 10% of the wine industry, women less than 20%, Latinx 15%. Our aim at WeRise is to build awareness of the fantastic wines from diverse and underrepresented winemakers.We seek to both engage wine lovers within the Seattle metro area and to provide access to communities that may be less familiar with wine so that they too can learn, discover and enjoy as well. We aim to build an inclusive community centered around wine and educational events. We're excited to have you with us on this journey and excited to share many underrepresented gems of great wines with you.
Business Email julie@wcsofww.com
AFFORDABLE COMPLIANCE FOR WINERIES
Winery Compliance Services is a full spectrum compliance company for Pacific Northwest Wineries.WCS can ease your troubles by assisting you through the initial start-up application process of obtaining Federal approvals, as well as out-of-state shipping, Federal COLAs, filing all of your state and federal reports and more.
We can also represent you in State and Federal audits, as well as help you stay up-to-date on new regulations.
Business Email pmcafee@lafitte-usa.com
Lafitte Group maintains a family-owned global business with production and distribution facilities for wine corks and capsules in Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United States. With over 100 years of industrial experience, Lafitte's eager attention to new and evolving industry standards ensures our continual improvement in producing the highest quality cork products suitable for all wines. In addition to wine closures, Lafitte USA offers a complete range of stock PVC, PETg, Polylaminate, Alustar, and Tin capsules at our Napa plant. We also offer fully customizable capsules manufactured at any one of our global facilities in a wide array of sizes, colors, and finishes to meet your precise marketing and technical demands. Lafitte Cork & Capsule has built an impressive reputation in the wine packaging industry by delivering the highest quality natural cork closures and capsules for over a century. At Lafitte USA, we take immense pride in offering the best service platform in North America.
Business Email: msteele@pioneernw.com
Family-owned and operated since 1984, Pioneer Packaging offers creative packaging solutions at competitive prices to customers throughout the Pacific Northwest. Our experienced sales force and empowered customer service team, together with “Just-In-Time” inventory programs, assure that products are delivered on schedule by our fleet of company-owned vehicles.
Business Email akeatts@bannerbank.com
Our team of experts focuses completely on you, providing the tailored solutions, expert guidance and local decision-making you need to succeed. Our focus on offering outstanding value along with our financial strength and stability are key reasons Forbes named us one of the World's Best Banks each of the past four years, as well as one of the 100 Best Banks in America the past seven years. It is also why Bauer Financial has repeatedly assigned Banner its top, five-star rating for more than 10 years.
Of equal importance is the community spirit upon which Banner Bank was founded as a small thrift in 1890. With more than $15 billion in assets and locations in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, we understand our role in the economic ecosystem and we take that responsibility seriously. In addition to being a source of capital to personal banking clients and businesses of all sizes, we place a high importance on contributing to the communities we serve. Last year, we engaged with more than 1,000 charitable and community causes across our footprint by contributing nearly $2 million and thousands of hours volunteering.
From thoughtfully designed personal banking services to full-service, leading-edge commercial banking solutions, we’re proud to earn your business and help you dream big and achieve more.
Business Email jeff.carroll@commerce7.com
Commerce7 is the leading direct-to-consumer sales platform for wineries, focused on delivering customer-centric solutions along with the tools and insights needed to succeed. Bringing together CRM, clubs and subscriptions, POS, ecommerce, and reservations into one advanced platform, Commerce7 helps wineries of all sizes create better shopping experiences and build customer loyalty.
Business Email rgriswold@tryskprintsolutions.com
Trysk combines extensive print and packaging experience with the desire to innovate and evolve. Our fresh approach to every project ensures that the final product always exceeds expectations.
Trysk was founded on the belief that what’s on the outside should be as good as what’s on the inside. That principle still guides us today.
We started out as wine label specialists in Washington State in 2008. Over time, we expanded to serve winegrowers up and down the West Coast, and eventually throughout North America. As part of that growth, we acquired Watermark Labels in February 2020.
Today, Trysk is the gold standard for labels and packaging across all industries in the United States and Canada.
Business Email: mlaszlo@clarkhill.com
Clark Hill serves as counsel to wineries and wine-related businesses, including U.S. and international wineries, importers, distributors, and retailers. Our wine and alcohol industry team offers full-service compliance and regulatory representation, including TTB and state wine permits and licensing, shipping permits, etc. We advise clients in a wide array of business transactions, including distribution agreements, direct-to-consumer, winemaker agreements, custom crush agreements, leases, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, franchise issues, production agreements, transportation and logistics and many others.
In addition, we routinely serve as outside general counsel to our wine clients, assisting with everyday business matters such as business formation, re-organization, expansion, regulatory, environmental, water law, labor and employment, trademark, litigation, and general business counseling.
At Clark Hill, our value proposition is simple. We offer our clients an exceptional team, dedicated to the delivery of outstanding service. With 29 locations and more than 700 lawyers spanning the United States, Ireland, and Mexico, we partner with our clients to help them reach and exceed their business goals. Please visit the firm's website at http://www.clarkhill.com.
Clark Hill. Simply Smarter.
Business Email: jbliesner@tlwins.com
Insurance for wineries throughout Washington State
Winery and vineyard owners have unique needs that require specialized insurance solutions. Jennifer Bliesner, Vice President and Partner of Terril, Lewis & Wilke Insurance is one of only two agents in the state of Washington to represent three distinct winery insurance programs. These programs offer specialized coverage not found on typical policies, such as wine or grapes in transit, wine leakage, and contamination coverage. Large or small, the unique risks confronted by vintners require customized insurance solutions. Let Jennifer Bliesner of Terril, Lewis & Wilke Insurance, Inc. provide a solution for your insurance needs.
Business Email rachel@northwestwineaccounting.com
Small business accounting service you can count on. We operate 100% virtually. That means that we can serve clients located anywhere. However, North Central Washington is our home and most of our clients are local to the area. It helps that we know the industries, the vendors, the economic climate, and, yes, lots of the people!
Northwest Wine Accounting is excited to announce its new focus as a specialized accounting firm, dedicated solely to the unique financial needs of the wine industry. Founded in 2017 by CPA Rachel Smith, the business was formerly known as Books on Point. The firm has pivoted to focus exclusively on the wine industry.
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