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July 26, 2026 · GetDiscoverable.io
A plain-English guide by COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar at GetDiscoverable.io: six fixable checks to become the winery an AI assistant names when a buyer asks for a wine.
July 23, 2026 · Wine Business
A bylined Insight & Opinion column by COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar in Wine Business: for twenty years, getting found meant ranking on Google — now a buyer is just as likely to ask ChatGPT. The six-step fix for becoming the winery an AI names, from crawler access and machine-readable text to one consistent name and structured data.
July 22, 2026 · Craft Spirits Magazine
A bylined field guide by COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar in Craft Spirits Magazine on why so many TTB label rejections come down to the back label — where the mandatory statements (the government health warning, alcohol content, net contents, and name and address) live — and how to get them right before you submit.
July 19, 2026 · GetDiscoverable.io
By COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar at GetDiscoverable.io: what separates the wineries an AI assistant names by name from the ones it never mentions — machine-readable text, one consistent name, structured data, open crawler access — and how to fix it.
June 9, 2026 · Craft Spirits Magazine
A bylined field guide by COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar in Craft Spirits Magazine, the American Craft Spirits Association’s publication, on which label claims clear TTB review and which get rejected — from age statements and “distilled by” vs. “bottled by” attribution to “handmade,” geographic terms like Kentucky bourbon, and health and low-carb claims.
May 28, 2026 · Wine Business
A bylined analysis by COLAClear founder Zillah Bahar in WineBusiness.com on the gap between what US importers file with TTB and what actually sells: Eastern European wine drew 1,638 TTB label approvals in 2025 even as import volumes fell 74 percent, per BW166 depletion data.
May 4, 2026
COLAClear, an automated label compliance pre-screening tool for U.S. wine and spirits producers, has launched its public beta. The application reads front and back label artwork, cross-references it against the full text of 27 CFR Parts 4, 5, and 16, and returns a structured pass / review / fail report in seconds — with a citation to the specific regulation behind every flag.
Featured in: Wine Business · Wine Industry Advisor (May 4, 2026)