Tag: Constellation Brands
Afternoon Brief, October 6th
Napa Valley’s Fairwinds Estate Winery Sues Insurer Claiming Refusal to Pay Glass Fire Claim: Fairwinds Estate Winery says one of its insurers sold it a useless insurance policy shortly before the winery was destroyed by the 2020 Glass fire...
Afternoon Brief, August 20th
How Napa's Cakebread Winery Absolved Itself of Starting One of California's Most Destructive Fires: An electric fence at a vineyard was suspected of sparking the 2020 Glass Fire. So the winery commissioned its own investigation...
Mexicali Resiste Activist vs. Constellation Brands: Activists Demand Water Rights and...
Water rights activists threatened with false legal accusations for protesting U.S.-based multinational alcohol corporation Constellation Brands
MEXICALI, BAJA CALIFORNIA (August 4, 2021) - Mexicali Resiste,...
Afternoon Brief, July 30th
California Wine Country Rebuilds as Threats Persist: The drought in Northern California is severe, and the risk of fires remains high. But winemakers are trying to adapt to climate change...
Afternoon Brief, July 29th
New York Star Sommelier Arrested and Accused of Arson: Caleb Ganzer, wine director and co-owner of La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, allegedly set fire to outdoor dining spaces at other restaurants...
Afternoon Brief, June 30th
Goose Gap Is Washington’s 19th American Viticultural Area: Goose Gap is Washington’s newest American Viticultural Area (AVA). The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) will publish the final rule for Goose Gap AVA tomorrow, July 1, 2021, to officially define it as a designated wine grape-growing region...
Afternoon Brief, June 28th
How Unregulated Cannabis Is Threatening West Coast Wine Growers: Cannabis cultivation creates resource competition and could threaten tourism in wine country—but some argue that proper regulation could actually benefit premier regions...
Afternoon Brief, June 25th
NYC Restaurants Stuck with Thousands of Dollars in Unsold Wine as State Ends Takeout Alcohol Program: Some New York City restaurants have been selling bottled alcohol for the last 15 months. Now they have to clear their inventories in a day...
Afternoon Brief, June 21st
What Tourism Downturn? Napa Wineries Report off-the-Charts Demand for $500-Plus Tastings: Luxury experiences with limo rides and vintage airplane aerobatics are on the rise...
Afternoon Brief, June 10th
5th Annual Wine & Weed Symposium Opens Registration: After a hiatus in 2020, Wine Industry Network (WIN) is excited to announce that registration is open for the 5th Annual Wine & Weed Symposium, scheduled for August 5th, 2021 from 9 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa, CA...
Afternoon Brief, May 13th
Constellation Invests in Donae Burston’s La Fête du Rosé: The North American drinks giant deal for a piece of the growing Provence rosé brand is Constellation's first in a new commitment to invest $100 million in minority-owned businesses by 2030...
Afternoon Brief, April 16th
Controversy as Gallo Seeks East Coast Foothold: E & J Gallo is offering South Carolina legislators a $400 million investment slated to create at least 300 new jobs and give the wine giant a retail outpost on the East Coast...
Afternoon Brief, April 9th
Constellation’s Wine Premiumization Strategy Is Starting to Pay Off: Constellation’s STZ +0.2% sell-off of its lower-priced wine brands to E&J Gallo seems to be paying off in terms of promoting their “premiumization” strategy in the wine arena...
Afternoon Brief, April 8th
Four Women Say Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli, ‘Prince’ of Wine Country, Sexually Assaulted Them: In the summer of 2019, Rose Fumoso left her home in southern France to intern at a Sonoma County winery, where the 21-year-old greeted customers in the tasting room and assessed the ripeness of grapes from the vineyard. As the season wound down in September, a friend invited Fumoso to a party celebrating the end of harvest...
Afternoon Brief, April 7th
The Bollinger Family to Acquire Ponzi Vineyards: The Bollinger family, owners of iconic Champagne Bollinger in addition to four other historic estates in France, announce the upcoming acquisition of their first winery in the United States, with the purchase of Oregon’s famed Ponzi Vineyards...
