Advertising (also see Marketing)
Bottle-Photography.Com specializes in creating high-quality images and animations of bottles, glasses, cans, etc.

Can Stock Photo (search for "wine") has over 14,000 inexpensive wine-themed photos to source for publications, presentations, website design, etc.

FotoSearch has over 95,000 wine-related stock images and graphics

Compliance
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ("TTB", US Treasury; to find information regarding specific state laws, use Google to search for "*state name* Alcohol Compliance".)

Beer and Wine Services, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in local, state, and federal compliance and offers a software package for interstate shipping

Compliance Service of America consults regarding local, state, and federal licensing and regulation for all levels of the alcoholic beverage industry, nationwide

Ship Compliant allows wineries to customize a FREE printable poster showing legal-to-ship states.

Consumer Issues & Organizations
International Standard Wine Number a timely idea and boon to both consumers and producers (especially for artisanal producers or esoteric appellations) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

n2vin home dispensing/preservation systems

Prooftag protection from counterfeiting

Finances & Reporting
Advanced Management Systems (AMS) wine industry integrated information systems to track, operate, and report everything from planting a vineyard to allocating bottles

Wine Industry Symposium - organization dedicated to developing financial business programs

Economics and Statistics
American Association of Wine Economists is a non-profit organization that publishes a journal; this link might also qualify in the Marketing category

California Wine Institute - Industry background and statistics.

DISCUS - The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States - excise tax and revenue information

Gomberg-Fredricson - consulting, monthly economic statistics and market analysis, historical data

National Association of Beverage Importers - monthly import statistics

Nielson - retail economic data

Simmons Market Research - demographic consumption surveys

UC Davis Cost and Return Studies - downloadable California regional info on costs and returns of establishing various types of vineyards

General Publications
Global Wine & Spirits

Practical Winery & Vineyard

Vineyard & Winery Management

Wine Business OnLine and Wine Business Monthly provides news and information for professionals in all aspects of the industry (subscription required for full access). RECOMMENDED

WineMaker Magazine

Wines & Vines is one of the oldest wine industry publications. Their website homepage has many categories of wine news that branch farther and delve deeper than mere wine consumption, always containing information of interest and amusement. The annual Wines & Vines Directory is the master rolodex for wine commerce in the US. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Insurance
Live Asset Insurance - insurance for vineyards

Legal
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ("TTB", US Treasury; to find information regarding specific state laws, use Google to search for "*state name* Alcohol Compliance".)

Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty is a law partnership specializing in the wine and hospitality industry

Richard M. Gahagan regulatory consultant for beverage alcohol, winery compliance

Hinman & Carmichael, Attorneys dedicated to making the world a safe place for fine wine.

K.C. Branch, Wine Law (San Luis Obispo)

Strike & Techel (San Francisco) alcoholic beverage law exclusively

Logistics and Order Fulfillment
eSkye - solutions, integration and outsourcing of beverage depletion data

FORT Systems - producer to consumer systems for eCommerce, logistics, and compliance, etc.

Inertia Beverage - solutions for direct sales & allocation management

Marketing Firms (also see our links to Trade Associations and Marketing Groups)

Academy of Wine Communications is a wine industry public relations firm

AgriDesigns are specialists in graphic and web site design for the agriculture industry

AWeber Communications offers a FREE (no "registration" or info required) downloadable "eMail Guide for Wineries"

Benson Marketing does wine industry-only Public Relations, Direct Marketing, Website Design, and Brand Consulting from their offices in Napa Valley and New York City.

Beverage Network

Cultivate Systems offer a package for winery-direct online sales

eSkye - solutions, integration and outsourcing of beverage depletion data

Intwine Marketing - multiple advertising & marketing services

J.A.M. PR specializes in marketing and public relations for wine

VinterActive provides wineries consumer-direct online sales research and solutions

WineryPro™ software for small winery sales and marketing management

Wine Direct Solutions offers information and commentary on many aspects of consumer-direct wine sales, provided by Walla Walla Community College Professor and Marketing Consultant Michele Rennie

Wines-Info provides information about the wine market in China.

Production Management & Operations
Green Wine Summit - sustainability development conference

Wine Industry Technology Symposium - annual interdisciplinary conference in Napa Valley

Politics
A few Distributor Megalo-glomerates have joined with Neo-Prohibitionist Inquisitors to spread propaganda and promote foul-smelling protectionist legislation; their agenda is pro-big business, anti-free enterprise and anti-consumer. Learn the truth and fight back with the links below.

Free the Grapes promotes interstate direct shipping, so that all consumers will have access to small-production wines.

Winegrape Growers of America serves as a communication link between growers in various states and lobbies Washington on behalf of their common issues.

Wine America, the National Association of American Wineries, is a lobbying and compliance support organization based in upstate New York.

Restaurant & Retail Operations
Beverage Handbooks targets on-sale, off-sale, and compliance segments of the industry

Cameron Publications directed to the hospitality trade

Oz Winebars commercial dispensing/preservation systems

Restaurant Report promotes better restaurant wine service HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Winery / Vineyard Real Estate
Bergman Euro-National (California)

Gomberg-Fredricson