I believe we'll each update our own tasks, so I won't speak for the others except to say they're working on;
Liability Insurance
Label Design, label approval and regulations
Bottles, caps, corks
Software to run the business on.
My brief update is on Labellers.
Basically the Italians make a lot of the equipment, but the Australians have cornered the niche of labellers. I found quite a few models and even their respective manufacturers. It will come down to price in the end and what we think will work well.
There are two types - manual and semi-automatic, if you ignore the high end machinery. The labellers range from small production of up to 300 bottles and hour to a couple of thousand an hour then jump to something like 20,000 bottles an hour. Yes, well, quite.
Manual is a good start for us, but there is doubt on maintaining the accuracy of the placement of the rear label on the bottle as people tire or shift their position relevant to viewing the machine's guide that is used for alignment.
In fact, a French contraption, La Nantaise, seems to work well from its video, but they use a cute slight of hand to not show you how the rear label is not aligned with the front label. Their product is good but French bottles not sold here in the US do not have rear labels, so La Nantaise works for their front label only requirement but fails for us.
The Australian manufacturer of BenchMate is in contact with us. I don't see how he can ship it, customs cleared, cheaper than the US distributor, but we'll see.
And on Solicitor Licenses.
Another Form. But very simple. We need these to be able to sell our wine - or more precisely go out there and start marketing it, and offering it for sale.
The weird thing is that we have to write to ourselves outlining our sales duties, a copy of such communication to accompany the form.
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