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Afternoon Brief, February 24th
Napa's Duckhorn Files Papers to Go Public with Stock Offering: The growing premium wine company, which owns brands from Decoy to Kosta Browne, made a preliminary filing with the SEC to raise capital through an IPO...
Afternoon Brief, February 23rd
Sonoma County Winery Event Permit Meeting Leaves Vintners Frustrated with Process: Last Thursday’s virtual forum organized by Sonoma County’s Permit Sonoma to ostensibly open up conversation about event permitting for wineries in Sonoma County, had over 200 stakeholders taking time out to participate, but many vintners felt it was a charade...
Afternoon Brief, February 22nd
The Data: Wine DtC Shipments and Off-Premise Retail (January 2020 Special Report): The wine market is in greater flux than ever as producers, retailers and consumers navigate the impacts of a global pandemic. Keeping a pulse on marketplace data has never been so important given these shifting dynamics...
Afternoon Brief, February 19th
Announcing Celebrity Line-Up for Wine Future 2021: During each day’s 15 minute break Wine Future 2021 will feature live and recorded entertainment coordinated by Dan Nicholl, host of South Africa’s The Dan Nicholl Show and the successful Dan Really Likes Wine series...
Afternoon Brief, February 18th
US Courts Deliver Body Blows to Wine: Courts in the US have delivered decisions that will frustrate those who want free trade in wine...
Afternoon Brief, February 17th
Tennessee Legislators Aim to Limit Winery Direct Shipping Sales: Lawmakers propose banning winery direct shipping through fulfillment houses, which handle logistics for small wineries; federal court upholds Missouri ban on out-of-state wine merchants...
Afternoon Brief, February 16th
Pandemic, Northern California Fires Could Complicate Wine Business Financing, Lenders Say: Second-generation vintner Hugh Davies is disappointed he didn’t hit last year’s business performance goals for Schramsberg Vineyards in upper Napa Valley...
Afternoon Brief, February 15th
Wine List Secrets Revealed: Last week Bill Rancic hosted an online event held by the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) intended for wineries to learn about how they might use the three-tier system to get their wines in restaurants...
Afternoon Brief, February 12th
USTR Announces No Revisions in Airbus Tariffs: Is the Tumbler, Goblet, and Pint Half-empty or Half-Full?: The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced in a Notice for publication in the Federal Register on February 12, 2021, that it would propose no revisions to the existing retaliatory tariffs on goods from the EU in the Airbus trade dispute...
Afternoon Brief, February 11th
Overview of 2020 US Wine Market Stats and 10 Hot Wine Trends for 2021: Though the US wine market endured a very bumpy ride in 2020, with many dire predictions of loss and doom due to the pandemic and wildfires, now that the numbers are in, the results are not that dismal...
Afternoon Brief, February 10th
Preliminary 2020 Winegrape Crush Report is 3.404 Million Tons: The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2020 has been released...
Afternoon Brief, February 9th
Five New Products from Unified’s Virtual Trade Show Floor: Every year new and innovative products are introduced at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium...
WIN Insiders with Enoforum USA: Gianni Trioli
By Stacy Briscoe
Enoforum, the European wine industry's largest technical-scientific conference is coming to the US for the first time this May. The event, scheduled for May...
Five New Products from Unified’s Virtual Trade Show Floor
Every year new and innovative products are introduced at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium...
Afternoon Brief, February 8th
Southern Glazer’s Signs Agreement to Acquire Epic Wines & Spirits: Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer’s)—the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol—today announced that it has signed a national distribution agreement with Foley Family Wines (FFW), a family-owned and operated producer and marketer of luxury wines...
