Tag: LVMH
Afternoon Brief, July 31st
DTC Market Trends Toward a Re-Balanced Standard: The direct-to-consumer wine market is still trying to figure out what the new normal looks like. Is it the pandemic’s hyper growth? Is it the pre-pandemic’s pretty good growth? Or is it something else entirely?
Mergers and Acquisitions Aren’t Stopping. But Could They Slow Down?
With the raising of interest rates by the Federal Reserve, one may wonder if the recent flurry of M&A can continue.
By Barbara Barielle
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Afternoon Brief, May 11
Wine Brand Equity Stabilising After Covid, But Yet to Fully Rebound: 2022 Wine Intelligence Global Wine Brand Power Index also Reveals that Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo Remain the Most Powerful Wine Brands Globally...
Afternoon Brief, May 20
When Wine Becomes Transformative: There's a new concept taking root in the wine industry: activist wines. Unlike traditional special bottlings produced for wine industry charity auctions and special events, activist wines serve a specific social purpose ...
Afternoon Brief, January 21
US Government Shutdown Hits Wine Hard: The longest partial government shutdown in US history is a buzz-kill. And not just for the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are missing their paychecks, but for the wine industry, which depends on a network of government entities to approve labels, imports and perform lab analysis...
Afternoon Brief, October 11
Who Leaked the Somms' Wine List? - This year's Master Sommelier Diploma Examination taste test has been controversially struck down amid suspicions of cheating by one of the Master Sommeliers overseeing the examination
Afternoon Brief, April 10
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Growers Sue Napa Winery for Rejecting Grapes Allegedly Tainted by Smoke
A Calistoga couple has filed suit against...
Afternoon Brief, March 5
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Two 'Second Acts' in the Napa Valley Wine Industry: The Araujo and Krupp Families
Napa Valley has changed....
Afternoon Brief, November 21
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Napa's Colgin Cellars Sells Majority Stake to French Luxury Titan LVMH
Colgin owners Ann Colgin and her husband,...
Afternoon Brief, October 10
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Sonoma and Napa Wineries Hit Hard by Wine Country Fires
As massive fires continued to burn in the...
Afternoon Brief, July 7
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Are Hand-Picked Grapes Better Than Machine-Harvested?
Marketers love to affix the word "hand" to imply artisan craftmanship behind...
Afternoon Brief, June 26
Breakthrough Napa Valley Conference Debuts in November:
ROOTSTOCK, a revolutionary conference designed for top quality grapegrowers, vineyard and winery owners, and winemakers worldwide, debuts November 13 at the Napa Expo Fairgrounds...