Here's What Works

 

Lot Traceability and Quality Assurance to Reduce Risk

July 2018
 
by Andy Starr
 

You bottled 1,000 cases of 2016 Chardonnay over two days. Near the end of the run, your sterile filter plugs, with about 80 cases left to bottle. You grumble about using another expensive filter cartridge. You have an eight-person bottling crew waiting around, so you rush the filter preparation process and skip bubble testing. Three months later, you learn that you've had a few customer complaints of cloudy wine that's also a little fizzy. You're worried that you have a giant problem and might need to recall the entire vintage from the market and your warehouse.

 

 
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