Tag: John Cifelli
COVID-19 Restrictions Pushes East Coast Wineries Toward Reservation-Only Business Model
With tasting rooms and most wholesale accounts closed, wineries up and down the East Coast limped along early the COVID-19 pandemic, surviving on some combination of wine clubs, online sales, and curbside pickup through the slower spring months...
Grape Shortage Exacerbated as Growing Demand Collides with Bad Weather and...
Kevin Atticks, the longtime executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, has seen a rapid growth of wineries in his state and others around it the last 10 years. It’s a business model that continues to outpace vineyards, which cover 800 acres across Maryland with another 100 new acres not yet producing.