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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Sometime early next year, the federal government should conclude its investigation into whether some imported glass wine bottles are being sold at ...
Silicon Valley Bank’s annual Direct to Consumer report cites
growing visitation numbers and declining DtC volume sales
By Jeff Siegel
Rob McMillan
The news is mixed in Silicon Valley Bank’s 2024...
