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Services Offered

Ensuring Product Quality, Safety, Legality and Authenticity

Grape to Shelf Consulting are focused on maintaining product quality whilst also ensuring the product is safe, legal, and its authenticity can be demonstrated throughout the supply chain. Some of the ways we do this include:

  • Carrying out third party production and packaging site audits, pre audits, and internal audits
  • Reviewing compliance to due diligence requirements to demonstrate product safety.
  • Writing and reviewing Good Practice procedures and record keeping.
  • Internal audits for BRCGS Food & BRCGS Agents and Brokers.
  • Supporting HACCP teams and reviewing HACCP plans.
  • Root cause analysis to identify product quality and safety issues and implementation of corrective action plans.
  • Product handling for bulk shipping and packaging at destination.
  • Product shelf life optimisation.
  • Packaging format reviews.
Flexi-tank unloading
Flexi-tank unloading

Wine Production, Bulk Shipping and Packaging of Wine

We have extensive experience of all stages of wine production, bulk shipping, and wine packaging. Particular areas of expertise include:

  • Wine preparation, and loading procedures for bulk shipping in Flexi-tanks, ISO's, Tankers, and smaller containers.
  • Quality issues affecting bulk wine shipments.
  • Quality and safety issues during wine packaging.
  • Wine quality and shelf life optimisation.
  • Sustainability considerations during production.

We have worked with a range of packaging formats including:

  • Glass bottles
  • Bag in Box / Pouches
  • Cans
  • PET
  • TetraPak
  • Other alternative packaging
Services Offered

Project Work

We have on going contracts with many clients involving audits and due diligence work but also carry out more specific project work. These might be around attaining BRCGS certification but increasingly are around sustainable issues such as sustainable packaging choices and sustainable considerations in supply chains. 

For example, we carried out a series of reports for a client on the opportunities and limitations of glass light-weighting for still and sparkling wine. 

If you have a project you'd like help with please contact us to see if we can help. We love a challenge!

Services Offered

Training and Support

At Grape to Shelf Consulting  we believe that sharing (and growing), our knowledge is important. Technical Managers within wine businesses often work independently and not as part of a team and there can be limited opportunities to share knowledge, discuss issues, or to be trained by other team members. 

Having the opportunity to discuss problems, emerging issues, and wider industry challenges with someone outside of the business, may not only be helpful for Technical Managers, it may also benefit the business as a whole. 

The wine industry needs people with good technical knowledge. It's important to ensure knowledge is current, learning ongoing and that experience is shared. Grape to Shelf Consulting can assist by offering training and or support on a regular or ad hoc basis.