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Afternoon Brief, December 12th

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DRINKS Partners with Sovos to Offer a  Full-Service Solution for Wineries and Alcohol Retailers on Shopify: New partnership streamlines e-commerce alcohol sales, tax compliance and reporting by integrating the best-in-class solutions for alcohol merchants...

Afternoon Brief, December 11th

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The California Wine Industry Is Facing Unprecedented Challenges, Causing Many Winery Owners to Consider Acquisitions: Consolidation is nothing new for the wine industry, but the pace of change has accelerated in recent years as interest rates have risen, costs of labor and supplies have jumped, and demand for wine has softened...

Afternoon Brief, December 8th

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Additional Layoffs at Ste. Michelle Indicate On-Going Struggles: On December 6th, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates (SMWE), the largest winery in the Pacific Northwest, announced a substantial layoff. The layoffs impacted approximately 7% of the company’s staff...

Afternoon Brief, December 7th

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Why Napa Green’s Glyphosate Ban Is Such a Big Deal: Last month, Napa Green, a sustainable wine-growing certification for Napa Valley vineyards, announced that members must phase out the use of the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in popular weed killer Roundup...

Afternoon Brief, December 6th

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New Lawsuit Challenges Protectionist California Wine Distribution Law: The National Association of Wine Retailers announced its support today for a lawsuit challenging a discriminatory and protectionist California restriction on out-of-state wineries selling directly to California retailers and restaurants...

Afternoon Brief, December 5th

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AI Can Tell a Wine’s Vineyard with 100% Accuracy: AI may have just replaced another profession: wine tasters...

Afternoon Brief, December 4th

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Washington Winery Wants Answers as to Who Drained Thousands of Gallons of Wine Estimated at over $600K: Investigators have not made any arrests and have no suspect information...

Afternoon Brief, December 1

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NYC Wine Shop Faces Panicked Customers Who Fret Their Prized Vintages Are Lost or Sold:

Afternoon Brief, November 30

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US Ramps Up Wine Exports: American producers are finally starting to take the international wine market seriously and looking beyond their own borders...

Afternoon Brief, November 29

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Taiwan Firm Embroiled in Multi-Million Dollar Wine-Related Financial Fraud: Ten individuals have been indicted in Taiwan for allegedly defrauding investors of nearly 65 million, partly through a scheme involving a wine-themed investment fund...

Afternoon Brief, November 28

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 TRENDING STORY   Concern About Minimum Unit Pricing in France Concern has been raised by wine producers about setting a minimum price for alcohol in...

Afternoon Brief, November 27th

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‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Wine Labels to Be Destroyed: New European Commission guidelines concerning the labelling of wine bottles could result in a huge number of already printed labels being destroyed, according to the Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins (CEEV)...

Afternoon Brief, November 22nd

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Wine's Demand and Demography Dilemma: Instead of chasing the Millennial dollar, wineries should be taking care of older consumers...

Afternoon Brief, November 21st

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Angry French Winemakers Plan Mass Protest in Narbonne: Tension has been running high in southern France and winemakers are planning a major protest in Narbonne later this month over a crisis facing the industry...

Afternoon Brief, November 20th

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Extreme Weather and Falling Demand Are Pushing Wineries into the Red: High input costs and declining consumption are adding to the woes of small, independent wineries...