Tag: Amazon
Afternoon Brief, April 19
Wine Executives Debate the Promise and Peril of Millennial Wine Consumers: Top wine executives on Thursday offered differing views on the promise and peril of marketing wine to millennials, who are poised to overtake baby boomers this year as the largest generation in the United States...
Afternoon Brief, April 16
Duckhorn Wine CEO: Planning for Luxury Market After Boomers, Coping with New Napa County Regulations: Napa Valley-based Duckhorn Wine Company makes ultrapremium and luxury brands Decoy, Duckhorn, Goldeneye, Paraduxx, Migration, Canvasback from Washington state and Calera from the California Central Coast...
Afternoon Brief, February 27
Costco Beat Amazon on Internet Booze Sales: The American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which benchmarks customer satisfaction across multiple categories across the US economy, found the membership-based warehouse beat the online giant by one mark in its first entry in the list, clocking up 83 points, ahead of Amazons 82 (out of 100) ...
Afternoon Brief, February 6
Mary Ann Graf, Who Paved the Way for California Women Winemakers, Dies at 76: Mary Ann Graf, widely considered the first woman winemaker in California after Prohibition, died after a nearly three year battle with pancreatic cancer on Jan. 30. A representative of Graf's friends and family confirmed the news...
Afternoon Brief, July 18
Napa County Handling of Williamson Act Agricultural Land Contracts Draws Grand Jury Scrutiny
Napa County's grand jury says a decades-old program giving property tax breaks to agriculture land owners suffers from a lax of oversight and puts the county in the role of "subsidizing a lifestyle."
Afternoon Brief, June 29
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French Police Seize 10 Chinese-Owned Vineyards in Bordeaux
French financial police have seized 10 wineries in the Bordeaux...
Afternoon Brief, June 8
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High-End Growth Drives Domestic Sparkling Wine
As the total domestic sparkling wine category edges closer to the 11-million-case...
Afternoon Brief, January 31
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Expect a Rise in Wine Sales and Prices in 2018
According to the Wine Market Council, Nielsen and...
Afternoon Brief, January 3
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California Allows Drinks Producers to Pay for Taxi Rides Home
California has unanimously passed a bill that will...
Afternoon Brief, December 29
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Wine Industry Leader Claims Carmel Mayor Has Serially Sexually Harassed Her
The #MeToo movement has come to quaint...
Afternoon Brief, December 7
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New Company Rapidly Changing How 3-Tier Alcohol Distribution Happens
The vast majority of wineries in the US produce...
Afternoon Brief, November 27
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Competitors Circle Amazon's Wine Business
While Amazon has officially announced its exit from its online wine sales platform,...
Afternoon Brief, November 14
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Paul Hobbs Winery Buys Alexander Valley Vineyard
Silverado Investment and Management Company has sold vineyard property to Paul...
Afternoon Brief, September 18
Cabernet Underpins Double-Digit Sales Growth
August data show spike in domestic wine overall and continued expansion of direct shipments...
Afternoon Brief, September 14
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Silver Oak Owners Buy Oregon Vineyard from Dick Erath
The family behind Napa Valley's Silver Oak is the...