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D-contract-winemaking Dictionary

Contract winemaking

Paying an established cellar to make wine under the client's label

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Plain meaning
Paying an established cellar to make wine under the client's label
How to use it
Start a wine brand with contract winemaking before building a cellar.
South African benchmark
Contract winemaking is common among new South African wine brands without their own cellars.
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M20
Calculate it
T-M20-04 Processing Margin
Library sources
LIB-A107, LIB-A108, LIB-P-Wine
See also
Bulk wine
Wine: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedWine: how the business runsSold bytonnes of grapes, litres of wine1Plant vines2Grow 3 years3Harvest4Cellar5Bottle or bulk wineZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Wine Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M20 Wine.