Winemaker’s Database

What Winemaker’s Database does

Winemaker's Database (WMDB) was a cloud-based winery production and vineyard management software company serving the wine industry. Founded approximately in 1992, it tracked wine production operations from grape to bottle, covering vineyard data, crush, fermentation, aging, lab work, bottling, inventory, and compliance reporting. The platform historically served a long-tenured customer base of small-to-mid-sized wineries, with some users remaining on the system for multi-decade periods, indicating meaningful operational embedding in production workflows.

Following its 2022 acquisition by Encompass Technologies, WMDB was integrated into the vintrace division, which the parent describes as the wine industry's most widely used production software. The legacy WMDB customer base has been migrated onto vintrace, consolidating the company's footprint inside Encompass's broader beverage software ecosystem. The original co-founders, Jim and Emily Vahl, departed following the acquisition, and the entity now operates as a division rather than as an independent vendor. The combined vintrace/WMDB platform is offered alongside Encompass distribution, ordering, and reporting modules, including AI-augmented EncompassIQ features (ApIQ, OrderIQ, ReportingIQ).

The business model is subscription-based SaaS sold to wineries on a multi-year contract basis, distributed across a fragmented customer base of thousands of wineries globally. The company is privately held, headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and operates with 11-50 employees. No public revenue figures have been disclosed.

Name

Winemaker’s Database

Legal name

Winemaker's Database

Website

https://wmdb.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Winemaker's Database is a cloud-based winery production software platform tracking operations from grape to bottle, now operating as part of Encompass Technologies' vintrace division following its 2022 acquisition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Gatos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Subscriptions: Cloud-based winery management software provided on a subscription basis to wineries and wine producers for wine production and vineyard management operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Winemaker's Database (WMDB) is a cloud-based winery management software package that integrates all aspects of the winemaking process from grape receipt to final bottled product. Founded in 1992 and acquired by Encompass Technologies/vintrace in 2022, WMDB customers now operate within the vintrace Wine Cloud platform, which provides Winery Management, Vineyard Management, vintrace Mobile, and the wineadds Calculator to track operations from grape to bottle.

Product overview

Winemaker's Database (WMDB) is now part of the Encompass/vintrace ecosystem. WMDB was acquired by Encompass Technologies in 2022 after nearly three decades serving the wine industry. The current product portfolio centers on vintrace Wine Cloud, a cloud-based winery management platform consisting of Winery Management, Vineyard Management, and vintrace Mobile modules for end-to-end grape-to-bottle tracking. vintrace is integrated with the broader Encompass Cloud platform which offers AI-native capabilities through EncompassIQ including ApIQ (API), OrderIQ (order optimization), and ReportingIQ (analytics), plus additional distribution add-ons. Customer support for WMDB legacy products is available via [email protected] and +1 831-465-8310.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• vintrace Wine Cloud Cloud-based winery management software that helps winemakers track and manage their operations from grape to bottle, now offered to WMDB customers as the successor platform.
• Winery Management Software Wine production software for managing the winemaking process, inventory, production, and sales operations from grape processing to bottling, designed for wineries and wine producers.
• Vineyard Management Software Vineyard management software for tracking and managing vineyard operations, grape sourcing, and vineyard-to-winery data flow, intended for wine producers and viticulturists.
• vintrace Mobile Real-time mobile application providing up-to-date winery operation information, enabling winemaking teams to access production data from anywhere.
• wineadds Calculator Specialized calculator tool for wine production additive calculations, designed for winemakers needing precise additive dosing during wine production.
• EncompassIQ AI-native platform built for the beverage industry, providing integrated AI capabilities for distribution intelligence available to Encompass/vintrace customers.
• The Winemaker's Database (WMDB) Legacy wine industry database software that provided nearly three decades of dedicated service to winemakers before being acquired by Encompass/vintrace in 2022; legacy customers are now supported during migration to vintrace.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Encompass Technologies / vintracecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022In 2022, WMDB joined the Encompass Technologies family and its winery management software division vintrace. The Vahls selected Encompass/vintrace for their commitment to long-term success of the wine industry and their reputation across the broader beverage market. This transition marked a new chapter after nearly 30 years of dedicated service, with Encompass/vintrace positioned to nurture enduring partnerships and continue advancing winery operations.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Viticult: Cloud winery management platform offering wine production, vineyard, and compliance tools. A direct competitor to vintrace targeting small-to-mid wineries with similar subscription-based SaaS delivery.
• InnoVint: Cloud-based winery production software focused on mobile-first workflows from grape intake to bottling. Competes directly with vintrace/WMDB for the same winery customers with similar grape-to-bottle functionality.
• Orion Wine Software: Long-standing provider of winery POS, production, and inventory software. Comparable legacy competitor to vintrace/WMDB in the wine production software category with an overlapping customer base of US wineries.
• AMS Winery Software: Winery management and accounting software vendor serving small and mid-sized wineries. Direct peer with comparable production-tracking and vineyard-management functionality sold to similar US winery customers.

Emerging players

• eVineyard: Vineyard-focused management platform with precision viticulture and task management tools. Adjacent competitor to vintrace's Vineyard Management module, overlapping on vineyard operations rather than full winery production.
• BCB Solutions: Wine club management and ecommerce vendor serving small and mid-sized US wineries. Complementary rather than fully overlapping, addressing winery customer-relationship workflows vintrace does not focus on.
• Commerce7: Wine DTC and ecommerce platform with wine club, POS, and online sales functionality. Adjacent competitor targeting the same winery customers on the sales/club side rather than the production side vintrace addresses.
• Ekos: Brewery production and inventory management SaaS with growing adjacency into other craft beverage categories. Comparable production-tracking SaaS in a parallel beverage vertical with overlapping cloud-native software architecture.

Broad incumbents

• Encompass Technologies: Parent company of vintrace/WMDB, offering a broad beverage cloud platform spanning distribution, production, retail, and AI. The acquired parent provides resources and ecosystem reach that WMDB alone could not access.

Others

• ShipCompliant (Sovos): Regulatory compliance and excise-tax automation for beverage alcohol producers. Enabling peer often integrated alongside winery production software like vintrace to handle shipping and tax compliance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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