August Member Tips
August 11, 2025
The Certification Advisory Committee is meeting this month to review inspection reports and make determinations on 2025 SIP Certified eligibility.
You'll receive your notice via email from sip-app-no-reply@sipcertified.org. Please check your spam folder if you don't receive anything by Friday, August 22nd.
If the end of the month comes and you still haven't seen your notice, please reach out to whitney@vineyardteam.org.
Know Your SIP
How to Certify Your Wine
Any wine made with at least 85% SIP Certified fruit — estate or purchased — can apply to use the logo on the bottle.
Whether you sell your grapes or wine in bulk or bottle your own, certification shows your commitment to sustainability and can help move your product.
Click here to see how it's done.
Mark Your Calendar
SEP 22 | Invoice Payments Due
Certification is finalized upon payment of certification fees.
Please make checks out to Vineyard Team.
Checks made out to SIP Certified will be returned with a request to reissue.
NOV 30 | Maintain Your Practices
The 2025 certification periods runs through November 30, 2025.
Maintain your SIP Certified sustainable practices through then to uphold your certification.
DEC 01 | Renew SIP Certified
The 2026 certification periods begins on December 1, 2025.
Renew your certification by clicking the green renew button (available later this year).
DEC 05 |Year-Ends Are Due
Turn in your Year-Ends by December 5, 2025.
Here's what's due:
- Vineyards
- 9.1.2 PURs (June/July - Nov)
- Chapter 14
- Wineries
- 11.3.4 Noise Testing (every 3 years)
Keep Learning
Online Course: Tell Your Sustainable Story
Free & Only 30 Minutes
Does your team know what it means to be SIP Certified?
This course will help them learn:
- What sustainability means in the wine industry
- How SIP Certified members practice sustainability
- How to talk about sustainability with your customers
278: Fungicide Resistance in Powdery and Downy Mildew: 10 Years of Vineyard Research
Ismail Ahmed Ismail, South Australian Research and Development Institute
Fungicide resistance in powdery and downy mildew is a growing challenge in Australian vineyards.
Listen in to learn about:
- A decade-long national study on fungicide resistance in Australian vineyards
- How spore trapping is being made practical and affordable
- The use of phenotyping and genotyping to detect resistance
- Why monitoring fungal populations is critical for sustainable disease management across FRAC groups
- Listen In -
What's Up at Vineyard Team?
You're Changing Lives!
Read the 2025 Impact Report
Since 2015, your support has helped us invest over $436,000 in college scholarships for the children of California’s vineyard and winery workers. These students are breaking new ground—98% are the first in their families to attend college.
The road isn’t easy. 33% of first-generation students drop out within three years. Many face challenges like limited guidance, financial pressure, and the emotional weight of leaving family behind.
That’s why this scholarship does more than cover tuition—it also provides mentorship, helping students stay on track and build a future rooted in service and leadership.
Take a look at what we accomplished together last year!
Thank you for your continued support.