Meeting Wine Standards with a Registered Wine Standards Management Plan (WSMP).
The Wine Act requires most winemakers to have a wine standards management plan which demonstrates how you are complying with the standards and requirements of the Wine Act. AsureQuality, as an approved Certification Body for WSMPs can help you with this.
why do you need A wsmp?
You must submit a wine standards management plan to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) before you make any wine intended for trade or retail sale.
Winemakers are exempt from the requirement to register a wine standards management plan if they make less than 10,000 litres of wine each year and all their wine is sold in New Zealand.
AsureQuality Capability
AsureQuality is recognised to manage and supply functions and activities under the Wine Act 2003 and our auditors are recognised under the Wine Act to undertake verification activities.
The WSMP covers
A wine standards management plan is made up of several documents:
- Wine standards management plan outline
- Approved wine standards management plan code of practice (or the winemaker’s own programme that has been independently evaluated). There are two approved wine standards management codes of practice – one for grape wine and one for fruit wine, cider and mead.
- Generic HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) plan
- Winery site plan
- Your own records and documents
Steps to gaining WSMP certification
- Apply a WSMP Code of Practice to your winery
- Sign up AsureQuality as your verifier
- Fill in your WSMP details - outline and application form
- Send in your WSMP for registration
- Get verified
For more information visit the NZFSA website
