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Innovation, Optimism, and the Road Ahead: Reflections from AWITC 2025

Joshua Abra, Co-founder of vintrace recaps his time at AWITC

"No News is Good News" – Modern Harvest Success at Silver Oak – Part Two

Silver Oak’s first harvest using vintrace Wine Cloud streamlined data entry, enhanced real-time team collaboration, and simplified compliance. “The lack of feedback is a good sign. When people are unhappy, they let you know.”

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Case Study: Silver Oak’s Move to vintrace - Part One

Silver Oak’s in-depth evaluation of winery management software led them to adopt vintrace to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and maximize growth potential.

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Leading the Industry with Precision and Progress: A Model of Success with R.H. Barringer Distributing

R.H. Barringer Distributing is a leading North Carolina beverage distributor that has achieved significant levels of operational efficiency and strategic growth with Encompass.

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Antinori Napa Valley’s transition from Winemaker’s Database to vintrace led to significant time savings and less stress during harvest

“It was a huge weight lifted. We’re much more efficient. We got more done, and it was a lot less stressful,” said Marla Caroll, Winemaker at Antinori Napa Valley, regarding the switch to vintrace.

vintrace makes VQA and CFIA compliance faster for Colio Estate Wines across their portfolio of table, sparkling and flavoured wines

Colio Estate Wines is a 600,000-case winery located on the southwestern tip of Ontario Canada, producing a wide range of table, sparkling, flavoured wines and icewine under Colio brands Bricklayer's and Girls' Night Out. Head winemaker Allison Christ and her small team have their hands full, keeping track of 40 different finished wines annually, with most of their vineyards a four-hour drive away.

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vintrace's "new school" technology helps L’Ecole 41 keep producing superior "old school" wines

"vintrace made it very easy to navigate and visualize my cellar. It's opened up time for us to do more winemaking things instead of data entry." - Marcus Rafanelli, Winemaker, L'Ecole 41, Walla Walla, Washington

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vintrace’s Data Migration and Training Made Langtry Farms' Transition So Easy

Langtry Farms in Guenoc Valley, California. crushes about 3000 tons in a typical harvest. Named after Lily Langtry, the British-American actress who owned the property in the 19th century, the winery produces wines under the Langtry and Lily’s Collection labels, and does some custom crush as well. Melissa Hackett is their Assistant Winemaker, having worked a dozen harvests in Washington and California prior to joining the Langtry team at the end of 2020.

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vintrace lets Arrington Vineyards plan a complicated harvest and turns an audit from the TTB into NBD (No Big Deal)

Located about 30 miles south of Nashville, Arrington Vineyards has been producing award-winning wines since 2007. The winery has grown into a 25,000 case operation bottling 20 different wines annually.

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GrapeLink and vintrace exceed customers' expectations by integrating in record time

Striving to deliver exceptional service is at the core of every business. At vintrace, we take our customers' experience and feedback seriously, which is how we discovered an integration opportunity with GrapeLink.

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Upgrading from pen and paper to real-time digital data entry - Union Wine Co's. seventh harvest with vintrace

Union Wine Company in Oregon's Willamette Valley is quite the success story. In just 15 years, they have grown from a startup to a nearly 500,000 case (7,000 ton) operation, making wines under the Alchemist, Kings Ridge, and Underwood brands.

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Tech and the boutique winery, an interview with Martin Siebert of Tokar Estate

Most mornings you can find Martin Siebert walking the vineyards at Tokar Estate in the Yarra Valley. He’s recognisable by the Indiana Jones-style fedora he wears rain or shine, and the impressively white t-shirt.

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Tasmanian Vintners’ trace and track grapes easily from crushing to finished product

Located in the outer Hobart suburb of Cambridge, the contract wine facility Tasmanian Vintners’ is responsible for approximately 30 boutique wine brands — a significant percentage of Tasmania’s total finished wine production by volume.

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Phantom Creek Estates. Data is a winery’s asset

In 2016, Phantom Creek Estates created a small, state-of-the-art, super-premium winery in Oliver, British Columbia. Karin Grosstessner-Hain, Phantom Creek’s Winemaker, explains that to consistently make great wines, it is imperative to know everything about the wine from vineyard to bottle. The wine’s data is inseparable from the wine itself—it is what instructs and guides winemakers (and their successors) to maintain and improve quality from year to year. A data collection system needs to be in place with the first vintage in order to have a baseline for future vintages, which is what led Phantom Creek to vintrace.

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