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Industry Insights

Simplify Your Operations, Consolidate Your Spend… And Ride the AI Wave

Encompass CEO Patrick Tickle on how platform consolidation and AI are reshaping value for distributors and suppliers

Industry Insights

Reflections from NBWA 2025: Our Momentum Continues and the AI Wave is Here and Accelerating!

Patrick Tickle, CEO of Encompass Technologies

Industry Insights

Co-Packing is Hard. We Made it Easier.

What once was a niche service has become a mainstream strategy for growth, allowing producers to monetize their operational expertise and excess capacity.

Case Studies

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

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

Industry Insights

The Generational Investment Cycle Is Here—It’s Great for the Industry and Encompass (and our record first half of the year)

Patrick Tickle, CEO of Encompass

Case Studies

How Radgonske gorice save 40 hours of work during each harvest month

Case study of the Harvest app, which wineries like "Radgonske gorice" have used to save a lot of time during the grape harvest. It'll allow you to acknowledge your biggest opportunities for reducing harvest data crunching, and improve the performance of grape pickers (workers).

How Wine by Sam's winemaker got back into the cellar with vintrace

Sam Plunkett's family was the first to plant vines in the region in 1968, and this kick-started the Strathbogie Ranges being recognized as an official Australian Wine Region.

Case Studies

Domnique Portet Winery talks about simplifying record-keeping and other benefits of going paperless

A fondness for Yarra Valley Cabernet Sauvignon led Dominique Portet to establish his own vineyard and winery in 2000. In pursuit of a suitable property in the Yarra Valley to plant Cabernet, he eventually settled on a site on the Maroondah Highway, about a five-minute drive west of the town of Healesville, which is now home to the Dominique Portet vineyard, winery, and cellar door.

Case Studies

Constellation manages multiple sites with powerful insights with the vintrace API and BI tools

vintrace features a powerful API, allowing customers to integrate with their existing BI (business intelligence) tools. The ability to integrate with your winery software via a RESTful API with existing reporting tools is a critical aspect in today’s winery business environment.

Case Studies

Bulk wine exporter, Weilong Wines, guide to zen during the Australian vintage

We caught up with Weilong Wines Winemaker and Cellar Manager Aaron Milne in the middle of the 2021 Australian vintage to see it in action. We expected to walk into the usual vintage chaos but what we found was quite the opposite.

Case Studies

How Becker manages “Texas sized” growth and complexity with vintrace

In Fredericksburg, Texas, Becker Vineyards has grown enormously since it released its 1500 cases in 1995. And even after 25 successful years, people still ask, "you make wine in Texas?"

Case Studies

vintrace gets Shannon Family of Wines' newly acquired facility ready for harvest in just one week

Harvest at Shannon Family of Wines is a monumental task requiring precision planning and execution. We interviewed Joy Merrilees, Vice President of Production for the Shannon Family of Wines based in Lake County, California, to understand how she juggles rapid expansion with their commitment to improved quality and sustainability.

Case Studies

How vintrace allows Sextant Wines to be in two (or more) places at once

Four brands. Two winemakers. Tracking from grape to bottle at two facilities.

Case Studies

From overwhelmed to organized: Vineyard 29’s first harvest with vintrace

Vineyard 29’s state-of-the-art winery and classic wine-making techniques have remained the key ingredients to the winery’s elegant, enjoyable wines since their inception in 1989.

Case Studies

Yards Brewing Company Leverages Connected ERP Software to Gain Data Visibility and Streamline Production Efficiency

“We knew production was being held back with what we had. It just wasn't working for us anymore. That was when we started the search for more sophisticated software.“ - Mauri Bartlett, Quality Assurance Manager, Yards Brewing Company

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