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Afternoon Brief, February 11th
Overview of 2020 US Wine Market Stats and 10 Hot Wine Trends for 2021: Though the US wine market endured a very bumpy ride in 2020, with many dire predictions of loss and doom due to the pandemic and wildfires, now that the numbers are in, the results are not that dismal...
Afternoon Brief, February 10th
Preliminary 2020 Winegrape Crush Report is 3.404 Million Tons: The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2020 has been released...
Afternoon Brief, February 9th
Five New Products from Unified’s Virtual Trade Show Floor: Every year new and innovative products are introduced at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium...
WIN Insiders with Enoforum USA: Gianni Trioli
By Stacy Briscoe
Enoforum, the European wine industry's largest technical-scientific conference is coming to the US for the first time this May. The event, scheduled for May...
Intent and Purpose
Rosé wine shouldn’t just be the “extra” bottle you pull out when you and your friends decide to keep going...
Five New Products from Unified’s Virtual Trade Show Floor
Every year new and innovative products are introduced at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium...
Afternoon Brief, February 8th
Southern Glazer’s Signs Agreement to Acquire Epic Wines & Spirits: Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer’s)—the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol—today announced that it has signed a national distribution agreement with Foley Family Wines (FFW), a family-owned and operated producer and marketer of luxury wines...
Afternoon Brief, February 5th
Online Boom Behind Uber's Drinks Push: The implications of Uber's takeover of Drizly could be huge for retailers – and consumers...
Afternoon Brief, February 4th
Vintage Wine Estates, One of the Fastest Growing U.S. Wine Producers, to Become a Public Company: Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Vintage Wine Estates, one of the fastest growing U.S. wine producers with an industry leading direct-to-customer platform, announced today a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in VWE becoming a publicly traded company...
Afternoon Brief, February 3rd
Big Names, Big Bottles for Napa Auction: With its main fundraiser postponed by the pandemic, Napa Valley Vintners is running an online library auction starting next week that includes one of the most impressive group of Napa auction wines ever assembled...
A Winning Partnership
In September 2020, Sangiacomo Family Wines’ 2018 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay became only the second white wine to ever take top honors at the prestigious Press Democrat North Coast Wine Challenge (in 2015, Roche Winery & Vineyards’ 2013 Reserve Chardonnay from Carneros won the title)...
The Fladgate Partnership Announces: Taylor Fladgate 1961 Single Harvest Port Limited Edition
Take a Trip Back in Time with This Unparalleled 60-Year-Old Vintage Port
NEW YORK, February 3, 2021 – With the new release of Taylor Fladgate’s 1961 Single...
Afternoon Brief, February 2nd
Uber to Buy Alcohol Delivery Start-up Drizly for $1.1 Billion: Uber has made a major move in the growing market for on-demand delivery of wines, beer and spirits by agreeing to buy start-up firm Drizly in the US in a deal worth $1.1 Billion...
Afternoon Brief, February 1st
Direct Shipping from Wineries to US Homes Hit New Highs in 2020, but Restrictive State Law Limits New Jersey to Nation’s Lowest Growth: No doubt spurred by pandemic-induced limits on travel, dining and shopping, shipments of wine direct from U.S. wineries to consumers in 2020 experienced the largest recorded single year growth ever — but New Jersey consumers barely participated, due to a needlessly restrictive state law...
Afternoon Brief, January 29th
Bad Year Turns Good for California: It's been a year to forget, but the future looks brighter for grapegrowers...
