Tag: Kevin Atticks

Groundbreaking multipurpose facility set to enhance the state’s wine industry. By Paul Vigna About a decade ago, Keith Miller, CEO of Maryland’s Montgomery County Revenue Authority...

Wine industry veteran Kevin Atticks steps into a new role. By Paul Vigna   Kevin Atticks worked for several decades on behalf of Maryland wineries and grape...

January 17th - (ANNAPOLIS, MD) - Grow & Fortify founder & CEO, Kevin Atticks, has announced his departure from the company to accept a...

Joe Fiola is the University of Maryland extension specialist for viticulture and small fruit, his office parked out in the hills near Frederick ...

Kevin Atticks, the longtime executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, has seen a rapid growth of wineries in his state and others around it the last 10 years. It’s a business model that continues to outpace vineyards, which cover 800 acres across Maryland with another 100 new acres not yet producing.

The $220 billion economic impact of the U.S. wine industry revealed in WineAmerica’s recent study has grabbed headlines in the media, but the target audience for the information is much narrower, it’s the lawmakers in Congress and state legislatures across the nation who preside over the arcane and fragmented regulations of the alcohol industry.