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Should You Ignore What Your Customers Want? The Great Winemakers Do.
Among French wines, Château Pétrus is legendary. Consumers pay over $1,000 for a single bottle. Talking with Christian Moueix, the owner and long-time winemaker of Pétrus, Kellogg’s Gregory Carpenter asked an innocent question: When crafting a wine, how do you think about the consumer?
The US Wine Industry in 2019 – Slowing but Steady, and Craving Innovation
After 24 years of continuous growth in wine consumption the US market slowed to only 1.2% in volume in 2018 (bw166). Despite this flattening of volume growth, dollar value still grew at a 3.7% suggesting that, though Americans may be drinking less, they desire higher quality wine and are spending more per bottle…
Discovering the Origin of Zinfandel
For decades, the origin of Zinfandel, the black-skinned grape that produces full-bodied, jammy red wines and several styles of rosé, was a mystery. Now painstaking work by wine researchers in Croatia and the United States have culminated in a landmark cuvée, to be released later this year, from grapes grown at Ridge Vineyards’ Lytton Springs property in Sonoma, California…
Rustic Fizz Takes Root in US
In the world of sparkling wine, not all that shimmers is Champagne. When it comes to getting bubbles in the bottle, many producers today are looking past the popular méthode champenoise and charmat (tank) methods and returning to sparkling wine production’s roots: the méthode ancestrale…
Hall Sues City of St. Helena, Demands Water for Mobile Home Park Site
Behind the Scenes of a Wine Competition
Young Winemakers Are Leveraging the Wisdom of New Mexico’s Winegrowing Founding Fathers
New York Grape Conference to Focus on Invasive Pests, Vine Management
Turn It Off: Why the Wine Industry Should Prioritise Dry Farming
Employees Buy Napa’s Intervine, Wine Supplier to Travel Industry
Republic National Distributing Company Releases Its 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Brochure
Australia Signs Wine Brexit Deal with UK
Social Influencers Hold the Key for NZ Wine Companies Eager to Enter the Asian Market
Millennials Are Talking but the Wine Industry Isn’t Listening
The Wine Narrative Is Slowly Changing – In a Bad Way
Donald Trump Triumphs at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
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