Case Study: Martine’s Wines achieves streamlined compliance and faster time-to-market with Sovos ShipCompliant

Martine’s Wines Streamlines Compliance with Sovos ShipCompliant

Martine’s Wines Importer & Wholesaler, a Novato-based importer distributing to more than 40 states, faced a major compliance overhaul after an ownership change that required 500+ new COLAs, new licenses across 40 states, and extensive state-by-state product registrations. To replace a tangled, manual system and centralize compliance, Martine’s Wines turned to Sovos ShipCompliant, deploying ShipCompliant 3‑Tier and Market Ready.

Sovos ShipCompliant provided a centralized database, automated registration workflows, a cloud “filing cabinet,” and a state and federal law library, instantly populating forms, pulling COLAs from the TTB, and collating complete filing packages. As a result, Martine’s Wines shortened time to market, can find license renewals and recent registrations in seconds, improved distributor collaboration, and shifted from reactive to proactive compliance—allowing the company to focus on selling wine while maintaining a reliable compliance history thanks to Sovos ShipCompliant.

Martine’s Wines

Kate Laughlin

Vice President