Winery health isn’t defined by one metric. It’s a reflection of how well a winery performs across three key dimensions: financial resilience, operational excellence, and cultural strength. Every year, InnoVint surveys hundreds of winery professionals to understand what truly drives a healthy winery. In the 2025 State of Winery Health Report, our statistical analysis confirmed that all three dimensions matter, but financial performance stands out as the clearest signal of overall business health. Profitability, sales growth, and pricing confidence consistently separate the strongest wineries from those struggling to keep pace. But the story doesn’t end there. Operational practices, technology adoption, and team culture all play vital roles in supporting long-term success. What Does “Winery Health” Mean in 2025? At its core, winery health represents a winery’s ability to stay profitable, efficient, and resilient — even as the industry faces

How confident are you that your production plans are aligned with your sales goals? In a market defined by shifting consumer trends, climate variability, and cost pressures, winery leaders are rethinking how to balance what they make with what they can sell. In a new framework developed by winery operations consultant Andrea Savaiano, wineries can follow a clear, repeatable 6-step process to bring supply and demand back into balance. This practical approach helps winery teams: Forecast more accurately and confidently Map inventory against sales velocity Identify long or short SKUs before it’s too late Make smarter production and sales planning decisions Why It Matters Supply and demand misalignment is one of the biggest sources of wasted resources and lost revenue in the wine industry. This 6-step framework helps wineries turn reactive decision-making into a proactive strategy and ultimately connect production planning to financial health. 👉🏼 See the full framework here

The Missing Link Between Production and Sales When you’re involved with wine inventory and sales, a few nagging questions can keep you up at night… "Did we get our excise tax payment right this month?" or "Was that library wine really still available?" or "Did we ship enough wine to our warehouse for wine club processing?" These are tough questions to answer if your case goods inventory isn’t reliable. It's not uncommon for a few cases of wine to fall through the cracks. In a warehouse with dozens of SKUs, dark corners can hide inventory from the team—leading to missed sales, overpaid taxes, or incorrect wine club shipments when outdated spreadsheets are the only source of truth. “What's unique about the wine industry is the diversity of its sales channels,” explains Ashley Leonard, CEO and Co-Founder of InnoVint. "You're selling direct to the consumer a few different ways, occasionally direct to t

InnoVint’s new inventory management product, SUPPLY, is now available to all wineries, bringing real-time visibility, compliance confidence, and operational clarity to case goods management. Wineries Deserve Better Than Spreadsheets Inventory shouldn’t be a guessing game. But for many wineries, that’s exactly what it is. There is no reliable, shared, real-time view. Spreadsheets live in different places and are populated by teams chasing down numbers over email, text, or cellar conversations. Tracking bonded vs. taxpaid inventory is messy. Manual logs and delayed data make it easy to miss a movement, overpay taxes, or introduce errors into TTB filings. At the end of the day, no one has a clear answer to the most important question: “What do we actually have available to sell?” InnoVint SUPPLY replaces all of that with one intuitive system designed specifically for wineries. It brings clarity, control, and confidence to inventory management. What InnoVint

Having an accurate case goods inventory count at all times is critical to successful winery management, yet many still rely on manual, outdated spreadsheets that only get periodically updated. This makes inventory reconciliation frustrating, compliance reporting difficult, and doesn’t provide a clear view of what’s available to sell to inform demand and the sales team. At InnoVint, we believe wineries need a smarter, more connected way to manage inventory. One that integrates seamlessly with production, sales, and financial operations. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce SUPPLY, InnoVint’s case goods inventory management solution and the newest cornerstone of our vision for a fully integrated winery operating system. The InnoVint Vision: An End-to-End Winery Operating System For years, wineries have been forced to manage different parts of their business using disconnected tools. Vineyard data, winemaking data, inventory tracking, and associated costs

First, let’s all agree: being a winemaker isn’t a walk in the park.  It’s a profession that requires a nuanced balance of art and science, tenderness and grit, lengthy independent work, and highly social engagements. From the cellar’s depths to the head of the table at a winemaker dinner, the responsibilities are vast and diverse.  That being said, for the sake of this piece, we’re focusing on the actual winemaking workflow in the cellar and the fundamentals that define you and your role. There are a few “hot buttons” or frustrations that all winemakers experience from time to time. Our internal team of winemakers has endured them. Our clients have endured them.  We can almost guarantee you’ll relate to most if not all of this pressure point list. So let’s get into it! In this post:  Missing barrels Curious aroma identification Last-minute fruit capacity planning Running out of supplies Scattered (or lack of) d