The Year In Charting Wine
There are many ways to reflect on the year (2016) in wine. No doubt, those various views will be explored as the year comes to an end and as 2016 data sets of various types become available in the new...
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Wine Stuff I’m looking forward to in 2017
The 2015 Pinots From Oregon An extremely early vintage that should be fascinating to taste. I’m looking forward to an array of differently styled Pinots from Oregon that should be hitting he market...
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The Wineries’ Betrayal of Consumers
Back in the day, from around the year 2,000 to 2010, wineries across the country understood perfectly that, given the chance, the wholesale tier would screw them, attempt to make their lives more...
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Could It Be More Than Sexism?: Women in Wine
I don’t know how to assess the status of women in the wine industry. But that doesn’t mean I ought not consider it. This is also the perspective that James Lawrence clung to when he wrote, “Wine, Women...
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Wine Shipping Report Reveals Industry Transformation
The recently release of the ShipCompliant/Wines & Vines 2017 Direct Shipping Report shows an American wine industry that actively exploited the near fully legal landscape for direct to consumer...
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The Two Wine Industries: Separate and Distinct
It is becoming abundantly clear that there exist today in the United States two very distinct and separately operating wine industries. One, the larger of the two, is dedicated to selling relatively...
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Turning Wine Fantasy Into Wine Reality
The wine industry and wine consumers should take careful note of the fact that in a Wine Spectator article about the sharp increase in winery to consumer shipments in 2016, writers Lexi Williams and...
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Embrace the “Cute Kitten Theory” of Wine
As much as I like Rosé and as much as I like pretty pictures, I question this statement reported by Meininger’s Wine Business International recounting a seminar held recently at Vinisud 2017 in...
View ArticleHallelujah —The Texas Wine Miracle — Legal Edition
Sometimes, out of nowhere, a lawmaker in a state does something audacious and profoundly beneficial to the consumers. That’s happened in Texas. A Texas lawmaker named Matt Rinaldi has authored a bill...
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The $124 Million Wine Fraud
“We can’t support that bill and it doesn’t matter that it’s a good bill for our members. If we do, the wholesalers will kill all the bills we are looking to pass this year.” This response, from the...
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Drinking and Driving—The Path to Wealth
Want to increase the size of your bank account? Consider drinking and driving. According to the annual Wealth Report: “Investment grade wine finally knocked classic cars off the winner’s podium in the...
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LibDib Cracks the Code of Modern Three Tier Alcohol Distribution
The most shocking thing about the new Liberation Distribution (LibDib) wholesale platform is that the idea to automate distribution of alcohol on a platform that invites everyone onboard apparently...
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A New (Modern) Framework for Regulating Alcohol
The American system of alcohol regulations is not merely broken, it has become a parody of the idea of control. What once was supposed to be a post-Prohibition system of regulations to assure the...
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Are Burgundy Wine Growers Cheating Terroir?
It’s being reported by the London Telegraph that the entire Burgundy wine region is set to be protected by a ” ‘hailstone shield’ to kill destructive storms that have blighted the famed wine growing...
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Women, Wine and Pay—Getting to the Bottom of the Issue
Why are women paid less than men? Are women in the wine industry paid less than men when they have similar positions and the same amount of experience? Wine Women, an organization with the mission of...
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Marijuana’s Impact on Wine Sale — Bad or Terrible?
If you make a living in the wine industry, how ought you feel about this headline: “A new study from OutCo and Monocle Research shows 51% of millennials in California will replace alcohol with...
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SPIRITED: The Right Match for the Evolution of the Craft Revolution
Today, the silos that once kept the beer, wine, spirits and cider categories separate entities have been smashed to pieces. Not only do we see wineries making cider, brewers making cider, wineries...
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Wine Wholesalers Announced that YOU Are the Enemy
There is a simple way of determining in the wine industry and any other industry or situations, who your opponents are: Line up potential opponents and ask them what they oppose. It’s direct, simple...
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Money, Power, Reputation and the Napa Valley Wine Auction
The most startling thing about the Napa Valley Auction, which happens this coming weekend, is the remarkable concentration of wealth it attracts. But this is what is required in order for the event to...
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Two Critical Tools For Wine Writers and Bloggers
Wine writers and wine bloggers who aspire to both understand and report on the business of wine can’t ignore the politics of wine. Few other businesses are so significantly defined by and impacted by...
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