Washington Wine Institute

08/04/2025

A New Benefit for Your Winery!

members now have access to exclusive news updates on wwi.wine. As a member, you can find WWI announcements, wine industry news, and more at the member homepage: https://www.wwi.wine/member-home/

Email [email protected] for your username and password.

08/01/2025

is here! The month-long celebration of Washington wine starts today. Join the celebration by sharing your wine story, adding your wine events to the WAugust calendar, and more.


Visit WAugust.com to find events near you!

07/31/2025

Work permits make it possible for immigrant workers to make essential contributions to the wine industry and put wine on your table. The staffing shortage is widespread, and filling these gaps gives struggling businesses around the country a fighting chance to stay open.

Congress is making decisions right now about the workers who keep our restaurants, hotels, bars, farms, and wineries thriving. Roll up your sleeves and join the movement to protect our teams and our industry's future.

Join us: bit.ly/seatthetable

07/25/2025

These types of studies are our industry's best protection as we face many legislative and regulatory challenges. Our lobbying team at the Washington Wine Institute will aggressively utilize this updated WA wine and American wine economic data to help us emphasize the level of importance our industry carries for our state and national economies. As Congress and our state legislature debate policy proposals that may help or harm our industry, we will consistently remind them of our impact with this updated data and infographics that really drive the point home.

A conversation with Jim Tresize, President of Wine America, highlights the importance of small family wine businesses across America, and their positive impact on the U.S. economy.

07/22/2025

This webinar series starts tomorrow! We hope to see you there. 😊🥂

Register Today for Washington Wine Institute & Washington Winegrowers Association webinars! These webinars will break down top WA winery licensing, permitting, and compliance issues with the goal of helping wineries better understand their license and make lawful operations easier to understand and implement! We'll also review recent legislation and rule changes.

◾️WSLCB webinar - Wednesday, July 23rd, 10 a.m.
◾️TTB webinar - Wednesday, July 30th, 10 a.m.

Registration is for both webinars. You only need to register once: https://www.wwi.wine/event/be-confident-be-compliant-ttb-wslcb-webinars/ -4970

07/17/2025

Starts Next Week! 📅Don't forget to sign up for the Washington Wine Institute and Washington Winegrowers Association webinar series, Be Confident, Be Compliant. WSLCB and TTB experts break down top WA winery licensing, permitting, and compliance issues with the goal of helping wineries better understand their license and make lawful operations easier to understand and implement. We'll also review recent legislation and rule changes.

Register here: https://www.wwi.wine/event/be-confident-be-compliant-ttb-wslcb-webinars/

WSLCB webinar - Wednesday, July 23rd, 10 a.m.
TTB webinar - Wednesday, July 30th, 10 a.m.

07/10/2025

Register Today! and are partnering to offer webinars that will break down top winery licensing, permitting, and compliance issues with the goal of helping WA wineries better understand their license and make lawful operations easier to understand and implement! We'll also review recent legislation and rule changes.

Snag your spot at the link in our bio!

07/10/2025

Register Today for Washington Wine Institute & Washington Winegrowers Association webinars! These webinars will break down top WA winery licensing, permitting, and compliance issues with the goal of helping wineries better understand their license and make lawful operations easier to understand and implement! We'll also review recent legislation and rule changes.

◾️WSLCB webinar - Wednesday, July 23rd, 10 a.m.
◾️TTB webinar - Wednesday, July 30th, 10 a.m.

Registration is for both webinars. You only need to register once: https://www.wwi.wine/event/be-confident-be-compliant-ttb-wslcb-webinars/ -4970

07/08/2025

You can find all of your business’s workers’ compensation information like rates, risk classes, and experience factor right on the front page of the L&I website.



Learn how to navigate the L&I Verify Tool with this quick segment from our Essentials for Business video series.



Using the Verify Tool link:

You can find all of your business’s workers’ compensation information like rates, risk classes, and experience factor right on the front page of the L&I webs...

04/24/2025

HB 2079 UPDATE

Thanks to a huge turnout from WA wineries and WA wine industry supporters across the state responding to our call to action to oppose HB 2079 the wine and beer tax increase bill, we are hearing from legislators that this bill will not move forward this year! However, while we are encouraged by this news, we remain fully focused on watching the bill’s status and will not hesitate to engage with lawmakers if needed.

A huge “THANK YOU” to every WA Wine Institute member and all WA wineries and supporters who took the time to write their state elected officials in opposition to HB 2079. We are as strong as we are united as one WA wine industry!

04/17/2025

HB 2079 Call to Action!

The WA State legislature has just introduced House Bill 2079 that increases our state's wine excise taxes. The Washington Wine Institute is leading the charge in opposition to this bill! This dramatic increase in our tax rate would hurt local wineries and grape growers, consumers, and will devestate an already struggling industry. Putting additional costs to doing business like this tax increase, will only decrease sales and may actually reduce potential revenue.

Have your voice heard in Olympia and help us push back on this harmful wine tax proposal!

READ MORE - https://www.wwi.wine/hb-2079-call-to-action/

Send Your HB 2079 Opposition Comments to Your State Senator and Reps - https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2079

This type of attack on our industry and our work in keeping you informed and engaged in what is happening at the state and local political/regulatory level is exactly why hundreds of Washington wineries, grape growers, regional wine associations, and more are Washington Wine Institute members.

If you are a WWI member in current standing, thank you! If you are not, we need you to join and help us continue to fight harmful proposals like this bill. Sign up to be a WWI member here https://www.wwi.wine/member-signup/

02/19/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for another productive Hill Climb.

⚖️Big day in Olympia yesterday!

Members of the board of the met with Washington State legislators to ask for their support for important pieces of legislation like developing a more sustainable tourism funding model, an industry-friendly bottle deposit program and more modern alcohol allowances, as well as asking for their opposition to a bill that would change the BAC from 0.08 to 0.05.

It was heartening to hear legislators express their strong support of our state’s wineries, recognizing the contributions we make to our local communities and economies.

It’s an honor for me to sit on the board of the Institute and represent on these important policy matters.

If you are also a supporter of the , hospitality and tourism industries, be sure to stay engaged on these critical issues, particularly the proposed BAC changes. We all want safer roads, but we also want smart policies that will actually solve the problem of repeat DUI offenders and those driving recklessly and at high BAC (