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Wish You Were Here: Notes from the 2024 Wine Sales Symposium
Insights from the 2024 Wine Sales Symposium, produced by Wine Industry Network (WIN) By Alexandra Russell and Laurie Wachter On Thursday, May 16, more than 300 attendees showed up for the 2024 Wine Sales...
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Wine Industry Sales Symposium (WISS) a Success
In-person event delivered actionable takeaways for attendees seeking to increase sales and make genuine customer connections. May 15, 2023 (Healdsburg, Calif.) – Last week’s Wine Industry Sales Symposium,...
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DTC Impact Report: Outreach and Inclusion Attract Younger Drinkers
The 2022 Direct-to-Consumer Impact Report offers a variety of key insights on trends and developments in tasting rooms and DtC over the last year. By Jeff Siegel   Is one of the solutions to wine’s...
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Where DTC Sales Are Slowing to a Trickle, Where They’re Surging — and Why
Two key reports on direct-to-consumer (DTC) wines sales have been released, and their findings make for fascinating — if, at times, alarming — reading.  By Kathleen Willcox    Sales growth...
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Turning the Tables on Cathy Huyghe
Cathy Huyghe Cathy Huyghe is a writer, entrepreneur and mindfulness proponent.  She writes about the business and politics of the wine industry in her column for Forbes online. It was during that...
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Wine's Most Inspiring People: Cathy Huyghe—Writer, Entrepreneur, Meditator
In the wine industry, the extreme is expected: sipping and spitting through hundreds of wines in a matter of hours, tastings in caves, scuba diving for wine. Successfully making and selling wine appears...
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Afternoon Brief, November 11
Sonoma County Studies Take Issue with Wine Industry’s Expansion, Scrutinizing Traffic, Events: Sonoma County wineries should bear the bulk of the responsibility for improving relations with rural neighbors,...
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Afternoon Brief, February 12
Napa County, Bremer Family Winery Reach Lawsuit Settlement: Napa County and Bremer Family Winery settled a lawsuit brought by the county against the winery over alleged permit and code violations, ending...
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Afternoon Brief, February 12
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Napa Grape Prices Up 11.5% Prices for red wine grapes from California rose 5.1% in 2017, compared to 2016, while white wine varieties dropped 3.6%...
Afternoon Brief January 10
Afternoon Brief, January 10
This will be a brief update, but given the widespread significant storm impacts expected later today I felt a quick post was in order…