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Wine Distributors Forced to Eat Their Own Excrement
Monarch Beverage Company, one of Indiana’s largest wine and beer distributors, lost its appeal in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court said the state could bar beer and wine distributors from...
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Is the Southern-Glazers Wine Distributors Lawsuit Really A Surprise?
In a way, it’s shocking that a lawsuit and claims like this haven’t been filed before, given just Southern/Glazer’s target size. On the other hand, the claims of “unfair, unlawful, deceptive, and...
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It’s Official: Cannabis and Wine are a Poor Pairing
Cannabis and wine are alike only in the same way that wine is like carrots. Both are produced with plants. I’ve been inching toward this conclusion for quite some time. However, it took the experience...
View ArticleConfirmation Bias Distorts Understanding of Wine Industry
Robert Joseph writing in Meininger’s Wine Business International cogently reminds wine industry observers that the tendency toward unreliable reliance on confirmation bias is far too likely to skew our...
View ArticleA Tale of Crime, Greed, Stupidity and Excess in the Wine World
Among those arts and crafts that inspire possession by collectors and connoisseurs, wine is the only one that cannot be appreciated and experienced collectively. Wine also delivers the shortest period...
View ArticleWine and the Seduction of Drinkers
How can wine be an emotional trigger point for drinkers? How can it invoke emotion in its users that in turn provokes them to invest more time and money in the product and, potentially, a brand? These...
View Article14 Ways To Present Wine To Consumers
In a three-minute speech at the London Institute of Masters of Wine, reproduced at Decanter Magazine, Master of Wine Natasha Hughes warned her peers that by presenting, talking about and categorizing...
View ArticleJesus, Confucius, Mohammed, Buddha and Wine Wholesalers
America’s wine and spirit wholesalers are touting a new “economic impact study” (which they paid for), that shows American wine and spirit wholesalers are the most wonderful people ever—only slightly...
View ArticleThe Amazon Wine Store May Need To Shut Down — Or Change
Does AmazonWine need to disappear because it’s unlawful? Recall that the AmazonWine service is a departure for the behemoth retailer. Wine is not sold by Amazon. Instead, wineries pay what amounts to a...
View ArticleWine Wholesalers: It Looks A Lot Like Corruption
It’s sheer arrogance….and an abdication of the responsibility to make an argument. At a recent conference for alcohol beverage attorneys held in Portland earlier this month, a discussion ensued...
View ArticleA Little Hell Just Broke Loose in Napa Wine Country
A little bit of hell broke loose in Napa Valley recently. And the devil still seems to be on the loose. In 2016 a group of “environmentalists” who seem to be bent on rolling back the wine industry in...
View ArticleCannabis is Coming After the Wine Industry
The cannabis industry is coming after wine and alcohol. The Cannabis message du jour (and it’s likely to become the message du always) is that cannabis is better for you than alcohol. The claim is...
View ArticleKey To Wine Country Fire Recovery: Buying and Selling
Here in Napa wine country, I spent most of last week keeping an eye on the danger, checking in with vulnerable friends and clients and reading the Twitter feed of Sarah Stierch. But I was also exposed...
View ArticleSomersaulting Toward A Conflict Between Wine and Cannabis
There are certain things that, when they inadvertently catch my attention, waylay me and what I had planned on accomplishing doesn’t get done. An episode of The West Wing appears out of nowhere. A call...
View ArticleWith Amazon Wine Shut Down, Is Wine Woot Next?
The announcement yesterday that Amazon was shutting down its Amazon Wine marketplace on December 31 was no surprise. With its purchase of hundreds of retailer licenses via its Whole Foods purchase it...
View ArticleThe Exploitation of the Napa Fires Has Begun — Already
A lot has been learned in a short time since the massive fires hit wine country. We learned just how completely a community can pull together. We’ve learned how generous neighbors can be. But I have to...
View ArticleA Sure Proof Way To Sell More Wine To More Millennials
Want to attract millennials to your wine brand? The way to do so is simpler than you think: Make lower priced wines. I thought I’d bring up this important point in light of the most recent article on...
View ArticleApple’s War on Harmless Vice…Is Wine Next?
I found 5 different apps at the Apple App store that promote marijuana. I found 3 different Grand Theft Auto apps in the Apple App store that promote….well…everything. I found NarcoGuerra in the Apple...
View ArticleThe Thugs of the Wine Industry
Distributor consolidation in the wine industry —such as the latest between Republic-National and Breakthru — is beneficial to consumers who like their wine wet and with alcohol. This is the majority of...
View ArticleThe Evidence Is Piling Up: Cannabis is Bad For Wine
A new study reported in the Washington Post shows that legal marijuana sales are a key factor in reducing sales of alcohol: “Alcoholic beverage sales fell by 15 percent following the introduction of...
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