Veritas Distributors
Wine distribution (B2B) · Michigan · 40+ years in business
The challenge
A 40-plus-year Michigan wine distributor needed its full catalog to be browsable the way buyers actually think, by where a wine comes from, who makes it, and which collection it belongs to. A flat product list could not express those relationships at catalog scale.
What was built
I modeled the entire catalog into a custom information architecture built on layered taxonomies, so a single wine can be discovered by origin, by winemaker, or by collection.
- Custom /region/ taxonomy spanning roughly 20 region pages across multiple continents.
- Winemaker /category/ taxonomy plus custom post types for individual wineries.
- Cross-linked discovery paths so buyers move between origin, winemaker, and collection views without dead ends.
- Deliberately no shopping cart, correct for a B2B distributor whose ordering happens through trade relationships, not checkout.
Named-winemaker, winery, and brand content shown on the site belongs to Veritas Distributors.
Result and proof
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