Bouchaine Vineyards Chooses Conformia WinePRO System; Napa Winery to Implement WinePRO for 2003 Harvest.

Business Editors/Wine Writers/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2003

Conformia Software Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to regulated, process-oriented industries, today announced that Bouchaine Vineyards has chosen to implement its web-based Conformia WinePRO solution. Bouchaine will use WinePRO to ease the winemaking process and in turn more efficiently utilize the staff's time.

WinePRO covers the complete wine production process from crush through bottling with solution modules and has powerful forward and reverse traceability for single click "vine-to-bottle" blend analysis and 702 form reporting. WinePRO's advanced tank maps provide winemakers with a near real-time overview into their wineries.

"We've evaluated all the other existing commercial solutions and none of them were comparable to the WinePRO software solution from Conformia," said Michael Richmond, General Manager for Bouchaine Vineyards. "We are thrilled to be replacing our existing PC software solution, PC Blend, with the web-based WinePRO which is superior in every facet. We're anxious to see it improve our overall wine production management, costing, and ability to provide our monthly audits in real-time."

Conformia has developed the web-based WinePRO in both an "enterprise" form for larger/distributed wineries and a hosted version for small/medium wineries. Bouchaine Vineyards will implement the hosted version of WinePRO and take advantage of the low total cost of ownership associated with a web-browser based system.

"Our production is becoming more complex as we produce wine under the Bouchaine label, in addition to the wines that are custom crushed at our facility," said Tim Dolven, winemaker for Bouchaine Vineyards. "WinePRO will give my staff and I production information when we need it, freeing up a lot of the time we currently spend on the paper chase process. WinePRO's user interface and overall usability will make tracking each lot and barrel that much easier, not to mention how simple it is to navigate and enter and extract information."

WinePRO assists the art of wine production with a managed, well-documented process, which can be standardized across multiple wineries of a corporation. Winemakers can drive all wine production activities from receiving grapes to creating blends for bottling through WinePRO. They can plan production by targeting blends to products and optimizing the availability of all required resources like equipment, additives and people. Cellar and Lab personnel have clear visibility of upcoming activities, allowing them to plan and execute their tasks accordingly. WinePRO generates the TTB Form 702 for a user-defined period based on the activities in the period.

"The fact that Bouchaine evaluated all of the existing solutions in the market and decided to go with WinePRO speaks volumes about the quality and efficiency of WinePRO," said Joe Prang, CEO of Conformia. "Bouchaine Vineyards is going to enjoy a whole new level of visibility into the production process and in near real-time."

Bouchaine, like all of Conformia customers, are given access to Conformia's configurability, training programs, and multi-shift support services.

The Conformia Beverage Alcohol Solutions Team spent over 22 months working onsite with wineries--ranging from small (10,000 case producing wineries) to large (10,000,000 case producing wineries)--to drive product requirements for WinePRO. WinePRO is based on over 30 person years of extensive research and development into winemaking, production, and regulatory best practices. The web-based WinePRO is developed completely on up to date components and a scalable technology base. It is written in Java, running on industry standard relational databases, and conforms to J2EE standards.

About Conformia Software Inc.

Conformia develops Enterprise Conformance Management (ECM) Solutions for heavily regulated, process-oriented industries which enable companies to simultaneously meet production performance and compliance goals. For the wine industry vertical, Conformia's WinePRO solution improves product quality and integrity; enhances blend visibility and traceability; decreases costs; and reduces non-compliance risks. The company was founded in July 2000, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.conformia.com.