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January 23, 2025
Silicon Valley Bank’s annual State of the U.S. Wine Industry Report offers an in-depth look at the current struggles shaping today’s wine markets. By Jeff Siegel Perhaps the best news in Silicon Valley...
December 17, 2024
A new study targeted more than 1,500 consumers between ages 21 and 39, and included both wine and non-wine drinkers. By Jeff Siegel Could the future of the wine business rest with millennials as they get...
December 16, 2024
This government trade policy is a double-edged sword By Jeff Siegel Stuart Spencer, a winemaker and the executive director of the Lodi Winegrape Commission, is hardly an investigative journalist, the kind...
October 25, 2024
The “existential” threat of re-imposed European wine tariffs By Jeff Siegel Former President Donald Trump’s call for renewed tariffs on European wine if he’s elected president were met with a flurry of...
October 22, 2024
Waiting for your distributor to find the time and sales power to sell your wines is no longer good enough. By Jeff Siegel For years — decades, even — the relationship between a winery and its distributor...
September 26, 2024
Can marketing campaigns and positive press save the wine industry? Sometime next year, the Wine Institute will do something it hasn’t done in decades: launch a wine marketing campaign. “Wine Institute...
September 17, 2024
Is it any surprise that not enough people in the wine business noticed the anti-drinking efforts and tried to do something about them? Probably not. Over the last couple of years, the wine business has...
September 5, 2024
Today, estate planning must take into account options such as selling the property to a third party, a merger or acquisition, or even just closing it. By Jeff Siegel Succession and estate planning...
July 31, 2024
Much of the news at this year’s Wine Mark Council Direct-to-Consumer report was not especially new: Improved, though still lagging, tasting room visitor numbers
July 25, 2024
Sometime early next year, the federal government should conclude its investigation into whether some imported glass wine bottles are being sold at ...