Why this matters
Wine Australia administers the Register of Protected GIs and the Label Integrity Programme (LIP) under the Australian Grape and Wine Authority Act 2013. Every claim you make on a label — vintage, variety, GI — has to be traceable through your records. A failed LIP audit can void export approvals and stop bottles at the dock. Cepaos keeps the chain from vineyard block to bottling line ready for inspection.
Prerequisites
- Wine Australia licence number entered in Settings > Compliance > AU.
- Vineyard blocks tagged with GI (region, zone or sub-region from the Register).
- Harvest and crush records with grape variety, tonnes and source block.
- Bottling records linked back to the source blend.
Step by step
1. Open the GI dashboard
From the sidebar, go to Compliance > Wine Australia > GI Register. You'll see every active wine with its claimed GI and the live 85% threshold check.
2. Verify the 85% rule
For a single-GI claim, at least 85% of the grapes in the blend must come from that GI. Cepaos pulls block-level tonnes from your harvest log and calculates the blend percentage automatically. Any wine sitting under 85% is flagged red.
3. Verify vintage and variety claims
The same 85% threshold applies to vintage and variety. The dashboard shows three columns — GI, vintage, variety — each with the calculated percentage and a pass/fail tag.
4. Lock the LIP record
When the blend is final, click Lock LIP record. Cepaos snapshots the source breakdown so subsequent reblends create a new audit trail rather than mutating the locked one.
5. Generate the audit pack
Click Export LIP pack. The PDF lists every input lot, source block, GI, vintage and variety percentages, with hyperlinks to the underlying movements in the cellar book.
FAQ
Do I need to register every GI claim with Wine Australia?
Label claims aren't registered individually, but you must hold supporting records for at least seven years. Cepaos retains the LIP snapshot for the full retention period.
What happens if Wine Australia changes a GI boundary?
Cepaos receives the updated boundary via the periodic Register sync. Existing locked records stay snapshotted to the boundary in force at the time of the claim.