For California wine-grape growers selling to wineries: Wine-Grape Crush-Payment Verification verifies a grower's winery payment against the grower's weigh tags and the contract formula — the district-average price adjusted by Brix, with deduction caps enforced — inside the nine-month complaint window. The district-average figure and the formula are the grower's own entries from their contract and cited source; no prices or terms are invented, and the check is arithmetic against the grower's own records — not legal advice.
How it works
- Start the contract record — winery, variety, and district, with the formula entered from the grower's own agreement: the district-average price with its source note, the grower's Brix adjustment rule, deduction caps, and delivery date; the product never invents a price or a term
- The complaint-window clock starts — the nine-month complaint deadline is computed from the entered delivery date and counts down
- Enter the weigh tags — tons and Brix per load, entered by the grower; document intake for weigh tags and winery statements is not built, so records enter only as the grower's own entries; the ton-weighted average Brix is worked out
- Enter the winery payment as it was stated
- The check runs — the expected price per ton is recomputed independently from the entered formula, expected gross and net are compared against what was paid, the payment statement is checked line by line, and deductions are checked against the entered caps
- Every variance is cited to the contract term or weigh-tag record it rests on, the complaint-window board is ranked by days left, and a printable shortfall packet shows the recomputation step by step; the product files no complaint with anyone and contacts no winery
The contract record — your own formula, your own district-average entry
Each contract carries its own record: winery, variety, and district, with the formula entered from the grower's own agreement — the district-average price with its source note, the grower's Brix adjustment rule, deduction caps, and delivery date. The district-average figure and the formula are the grower's own entries from their contract and cited source — Wine-Grape Crush-Payment Verification never invents a price or a term, and a record holds exactly what the grower entered.
From the entered delivery date, the product computes the nine-month complaint deadline and counts down to it. That clock runs from the grower's own entered dates and terms.
- Winery
- Variety
- District
- District-average price, entered from the grower's own agreement, with its source note
- The grower's Brix adjustment rule, entered from their own agreement
- Deduction caps
- Delivery date
Weigh tags and the winery payment — entered by the grower
Against that contract record, the grower's weigh tags are entered: tons and Brix per load, from which the ton-weighted average Brix is worked out. The winery payment is then entered as it was stated.
Document intake for weigh tags and winery statements is not built, so records enter only as the grower's own entries. No weigh tag or winery statement is read in on its own.
- Weigh tags — tons and Brix per load
- Ton-weighted average Brix
- The winery payment, entered as it was stated
The check — arithmetic against your own records, not legal advice
The expected price per ton is recomputed independently from the entered formula — the entered district-average figure adjusted by the entered Brix rule. Expected gross and expected net are then compared against what was paid, and deductions are checked against the caps the grower entered.
The winery's payment statement is checked line by line. Every variance is cited to the contract term or weigh-tag record it rests on — cited, not just flagged. A line that agrees is not listed as a variance.
The check is arithmetic against the grower's own records. It is not legal advice: it shows where the entered numbers disagree, with the citation for each disagreement, and it makes no ruling about what a contract means.
- Expected price per ton, recomputed independently from the entered formula
- Expected gross against what was paid
- Expected net against what was paid
- Deductions checked against the entered caps
- Every variance cited to its contract term or weigh-tag record
Your entries only — no district-average data of its own
No prices or terms are invented in Wine-Grape Crush-Payment Verification. The product has no live district-average data feed of its own and contains no district-average figure of its own: the only district-average figure in a check is the one the grower entered from their own contract, with its source note, exactly as described above.
Nothing is pulled in from any winery, any market, or any published source by the product. If a price, a term, or a number is not in the grower's own entries, it is not in the check.
The complaint-window clock and the shortfall packet — tracked for you, filed nowhere
The complaint-window board is ranked by days left on the nine-month clock, so the check closest to its deadline stands first. When the numbers disagree, the product assembles a printable shortfall packet with the recomputation shown step by step and every variance cited to its contract term or weigh-tag record.
The packet is assembled for the grower — the product files no complaint with anyone, contacts no winery, does not submit anything on the grower's behalf, and does not negotiate with any winery. What the grower does with the packet and the clock is the grower's own decision.
Where it stands — the honest state
Wine-Grape Crush-Payment Verification is forming its first grower pilot group now. The door below is a grower pilot application — applying starts a pilot conversation; it does not create an account, and it is not a sign-up for a running service.
There is no live district-average data source connected to the product. The district-average figure in any check is the grower's own entry from their contract and cited source, as described above.
Document intake for weigh tags and winery statements is not built. Records enter as the grower's own entries today — the grower enters their contract formula, their weigh tags, and the winery payment as stated, as described above. No weigh tag or winery statement is read in on its own.
The product files no complaint with anyone and contacts no winery. No outcome is promised: the check and the packet promise no corrected payment, no successful complaint, and no recovered money — they show the arithmetic and the citations, and nothing more.
No price has been set. A price range exists in our market research as a hypothesis; it has not been validated and it has not been decided, so no price is shown here and there is nothing to buy on this page.
Grower pilot application
This is a grower pilot application — an application to join Wine-Grape Crush-Payment Verification's first grower pilot group, not an account sign-up and not a purchase. Tell us who to reach, your vineyard or operation, and how many tons you crush per season. If you like, tell us how many winery buyers you sell to, and how you check crush payments today. We will be in touch about the pilot group.