Harvest moves quickly. Once fruit begins arriving, winery teams are focused on receiving grapes, tracking lots, managing fermentation and keeping production moving.
That is not the ideal time to discover that your weight tags are missing required information, your harvest work orders are incomplete or your team is unsure how harvest activity will eventually be reported on the TTB 5120.17.
TTB harvest compliance begins before the first load of grapes arrives and continues well after fermentation.
Wine Compliance Alliance created its TTB Winery Harvest Training course to help winery professionals understand the entire process—from gathering fruit-source information before harvest to documenting fermentation and reporting production after harvest is complete.
The course answers practical questions such as:
What grape and fruit-source information must be collected?
What information needs to appear on a weight tag?
How should harvest activity work orders be designed and completed?
How are grape deliveries reported on the TTB 5120.17?
How should crushing, pressing and fermentation activity be documented?
What does “produced by fermentation” mean?
How do harvest records support appellation and other wine-label claims?
Participants receive step-by-step instruction covering the pre-harvest, active-harvest and post-harvest stages of federal compliance.
The training includes:
14 instructional videos
Real-world examples of weight tags and harvest work orders
Three knowledge-review quizzes
A certificate of completion
Live Q&A opportunities with course creator Ann Reynolds
Access to recordings of the Q&A sessions
Unlimited access to revisit the course each harvest
This course was developed by winery professionals with decades of hands-on harvest experience. The instruction is based not only on regulatory requirements, but on the reality of weighing grape deliveries, tracking production activity and translating harvest records into accurate TTB reports.
It is ideal for employees who are new to winery compliance, team members who only work with these records once a year, and wineries that want a more consistent process before harvest begins.
Do not wait until the winery is at its busiest to determine whether your harvest records and reporting procedures are complete.
Enroll in TTB Winery Harvest Training for $1,797 and give your team a practical resource they can return to before, during and after every harvest.
Learn more and enroll through the Winery Compliance Training Academy at winecompliancealliance.com/training.