Expert Editorial
A Strategic Event Management Study of California Wineries
Wine businesses are well aware of the value in event hosting and festival participation for marketing their wine. While tasting rooms provide a direct-to-consumer avenue of distribution, strategic event...
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#SauvBlancDay or Everyday: Around the World with Sauvignon Blanc
By Chris Sawyer When the annual International Sauvignon Blanc Day (aka #sauvblancday via social media) takes place on Friday, May 3, there so many so many things to celebrate. In French, sauvignon means...
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Navigating Smoke Taint and Other Disasters: Wine Manufacturing Strategies to Turn “Noise” into a Rock Opera
Smoke, drought, rain, and other flavor-altering events are what separate the winemakers from the wine masters.A single harvest impacted by mold, smoke, or other faults can take down a vineyard or a farm...
Letters to the editor
Wine Will Never Fall Into the New Tobacco Trap
A title of an article appearing in the March 28, 2019 issue of The Spectator by Christopher Snowden, “The Campaign to Make Alcohol ‘The New Tobacco’”, seems to be more than a shot across the bow of all...
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5 Tips for Networking at Industry Events for Wine and Spirits Professionals
By Juliana Colangelo, West Coast Director, Colangelo & Partners From annual events like Wine Spectator’s Top 100 and Whiskey Fest to weekly trade tasting groups and regional seminars, there is no...
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How Can Wineries Reach Millennials? Personal Experience & Shipping Convenience
The “delivery economy” has upended consumer expectations for seamless at-home consumption. Younger buyers, particularly Millennials, now anticipate that businesses will cater to their desire for on-demand...
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Turning Technical Mountains into Molehills
Here are five tips to help you successfully undertake your winery’s next technical project and turn that mountain into a molehill.
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How Wineries Can Support Their Restaurant Customers: Tools of the Trade
Wineries, boost your sales by building a strong restaurant connection & by improving your customer service. Here’s how you do it. There is a very good reason for wineries to support their restaurant...
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Resonating Brand Authenticity
“We are a small, family-owned winery producing award-winning wines from our *estate vineyard/top vineyards) in our region.” This is true. You have heard or read this before. Maybe it’s on your Home page,...
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Does Wine Need a Nudge Toward Innovation?
There seems to be more discussion taking place within the wine industry pertaining to possible plateauing or even a pullback in U.S. wine consumption. Many propositions are offered as to why there may...