November 6, 2019
Premium (higher) pricing of wine is one way to display the quality associated with the wine. Before you decide to enter the premium pricing arena, get some opinions on what others think about your wine....
November 1, 2019
Tactics and Techniques Designed to Drive Demand for Your Brand: The Wine Industry Network (WIN) 3-Tier Wine Symposium last May was designed to help small to midsize wineries understand how to succeed in...
October 24, 2019
Mitigating for Smoke Exposure and Returning Value to Tainted Wine: That wildfires have become an annual summer ritual comes as no surprise to anyone. Not only are the numbers increasing – in 2017, there...
October 23, 2019
After having some customer service problems with large and small companies of late, I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog on customer service. Rather than start the piece by complaining about...
October 22, 2019
What to Expect When Cal Expo Hosts Unified Wine & Grape Symposium for 2020: With the move to the Cal Expo for the 2020 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium (UW&GS), both attendees and exhibitors might have questions...
October 21, 2019
Kunde and Vintage Wine Estates (VWE) have filed suit against their insurers at Sonoma County Superior Court collectively seeking approximately $20 million in losses. The wineries claim their insurers wrongfully...
October 16, 2019
The festive season is nearly upon us, the most critical trading time of the year for the wine business. Most restaurant outlets will expect November and December to be worth at least double their normal...
October 16, 2019
It’s easy to get stuck into ruts mentally. Many times, when we come up against something new or different, we may try to fit it into the structure for similar information that already exists in our brain....
October 10, 2019
“Turning the Tables – Interviewing the Interviewers” ” is a Q&A series profiling Wine Writers. KAREN MACNEIL is one of the foremost wine experts in the United States...
October 9, 2019
Discover:
What your customers are looking for.
What has stopped them from buying (from you or others) in the past.
According to Harvard Business Review: More than 50% of customer loyalty is based on...