For many of us, harvest is at the edge of beginning. As I am a firm believer in preparing for a successful harvest, I want to review a few tools available through dgwinemaking.com as à la carte purchases. Details for purchasing these lessons is at the bottom of this post. Creative Wine Styles for Hybrid […]
COVID-19 Mitigation: Harvest Preparation
As COVID-19 continues to affect many regions across the U.S., winery operations may want to tackle planning for extra precautions to minimize the infection and spread of the virus within the production space. As we discussed previously, planning before infection becomes imminent is advantageous to employers. Harvest operations have the primary advantage of typically taking […]
Free Winery Information System (WIS) Webinar Registration Open
Have you been questioning how to transfer your hard record keeping files into something more digital? Are you at a point where digitizing your systems may be more efficient? Have you felt that your operation is too small to get into the digital age? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will […]
The “Sip & Swirl” Offers a Taste of Something New for Wine Drinkers
Too much of wine has been focused on brands, wine snobbery, and making consumers feel small for their wine choices. Denise Gardner Winemaking is offering a new, virtual platform about wine that is none of these things. What is the Sip & Swirl from DG Winemaking? Many of my long-time readers, supporters, and blog followers […]
COVID-19 Mitigation: Bottling Operations
Wine bottling, canning, or packaging can be one operational space that can be difficult for employees to maintain a 6-foot distance from one another. This is due to the assembly line format that is often set up during packaging operations. Below, we’ll explore some options available to wineries to better adapt bottling and packaging operations […]
COVID-19 Mitigation: Start Harvest Preparation Early
For most of my clients, I encourage them to get into a harvest mindset in July. Clients in southern parts of the U.S. often must start thinking about harvest in April and May. But with the advent of COVID-19 causing disruptions to our daily lives and business operations, I would encourage wineries to start planning, […]
