Best Wine Club Management Software for Wineries (2026 Quick Guide) Your wine club is likely your most predictable DTC revenue stream. Members buy on schedule. They purchase more outside of shipments. They refer friends. According to Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the U.S. Wine Industry Report, direct-to-consumer revenue, particularly wine clubs, remains one of the most controllable and margin-protective channels for wineries. Yet many wineries are still running their wine club: Manually Across disconnected systems On software not built for winery operations That friction quietly costs money every week. What Wine Club Software Should Actually Do in 2026 At minimum, your system should: 1. Increase retention Flexible club levels and shipment schedules Clear, automated member benefits Customization options that members value 2. Reduce revenue leakage Automated expired card updater Clean billing workflows Fewer manual errors 3. Speed up tasting room enrollment POS-connected s

With more than 15 years of financial acumen housed in a team of 20 professionals that includes seven licensed CPA’s steeped in wine industry know-how, the Allen Wine Group (AWG) is the premiere CPA firm poised to take the global wine business to the next level. “We work in only one industry: wine,” confirms founder and managing partner Timothy Allen. “Most of our employees worked at a winery before coming to AWG, which gives us the rare experience of being on both sides of the desk. That unique understanding allows us to give our customers exactly what they need to succeed.” Allen Wine Group offers a comprehensive range of financial oversight services to wine industry businesses, specializing in: Fractional CFO and controller work Full-service accounting and bookkeeping Business advice & strategy Winery performance audits Winery compliance Income tax services Audit, review and compilation reports CPA-prepared financial statements Wine Industry CP

Confused or frustrated by the CA Grape Crush report?  Our webinar is this week on Tuesday, December 10th at 10am to show you specifics for completing it correctly! The webinar is The Do's and Don'ts for Filing the CA Grape Crush report. We'll cover showing you how to fill in some of the report's tabs, what are the most common mistakes to avoid when filing out your report, and show you how to know what version of the report your business qualifies for, the original or the EZ version. Plus - questions are welcomed and we will be recording the webinar in case you can't make it live. Click here for sign up info

The CA Grape Crush report is due on Jan 10th.  All CA wineries (= businesses that hold a type 02 ABC license!) must file this report each year. A couple years ago the CDFA created an EZ version of their scary report. Does your winery qualify to use this much simpler EZ version? That's the topic of a blog I wrote last year.  Take a look to find out. Does your winery qualify to use the EZ version of the CA Grape Crush report?

A great conversation with Carol Collison of the Small Fortune podcast. We discussed how I started and grew my business, & how I turned my years of working at wineries into offering compliance services and training to winery staff after learning it first hand myself! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-30-a-passion-for-winery-compliance-an-interview/id1704743265?i=1000669836998

Wineries are busy filling out a lot of "weigh tags" right now!  I have talked a lot over the years about the do's and don'ts around how to fill these out. A couple of years ago I shared a post about a group of 7 common mistakes being made on weigh tags. These came directly from a discussion I had with a former Deputy Sealer with the Napa County Ag Commissioners office.  Take a look here: https://winecompliancealliance.com/7-no-nos-on-weigh-tags/

Followed a load of just picked Sauv Blanc grapes this morning in Yountville. Harvest - the beginning of a wine's life also equals the beginning of its compliance!

Harvest 2024 is underway here in CA! There are a lot of specific details wineries need to track that are just specific to harvest! Details that the TTB requires. How is your confidence that you're tracking the details you need to? Take a look at our blog post from last year on just this harvest related compliance topic: How Confident are you about your TTB harvest records?

Interested in training specific to harvest compliance? How to track your grape receipts, fermentation details, gallons produced from fermentation as well as how to report all of that to the TTB?  Our course, TTB Winery Harvest Training covers all of that with real world explanations and examples. Plus questions are welcomed!  See full details and get signed up here: TTB Winery Harvest Compliance