Tag: Kim Badenfort
Building a New Winery with Deep Roots in Paso Robles
The success of Paso Robles wine is a community effort according to David Parrish, owner of Parrish Family Vineyards, who has been growing grapes...
CK Mondavi: Rebrand and Doing Business in the Biggest Bracket
Packaging has to two purposes, to protect the product and to sell the product. The second part is more elusive, but no less important...
Preconceptions Still a Problem for East Coast Wines
The quality of wine produced in the Eastern U.S. continues its upward trajectory, but wineries still struggle with consumer perception and their doubts about the quality.
Buying Brand Only and Building on an Asset Light Wine Business
News of large mergers or acquisitions in the wine industry seem to arrive at an increasing clip, and those involving large swaths of land...
U.S. Producers Betting on Rosé and Challenging French Dominance
“Is it on? Yes, it’s definitely on. Pink is trending; it’s a heavy trending thing, and I don’t see it going away at all,”...
New Company Breaks Barriers to Distribution for Small Producers
Consolidation continues to make distributors bigger and fewer while the number of producers grow with new small producers enter the market. The vast majority...
How Napa Valley Plays to Its Strengths and Nurtures the Roots...
It’s Cabernet season in the Napa Valley. Cabernet season is a marketing program like wine month or international day in that it tells...
French Wine Capitalizing on U.S. Drinking Trends
Major trends in the U.S. wine market including premiumization, sparkling wine, and rosé play to the strengths of French wine leading to a 14.2%...
What Cans Can Do for Wine
Cans represent a very small segment of the overall wine category, but it’s growing rapidly, and there are good reasons that key industry players are making moves or at least keeping tabs on it.
Not Just a Celebrity Wine; John Legend’s LVE in Harmony with...
Every actor, musician, and television personality seems to be getting their own brand of wine or spirits these days, but do they bring anything...
Five New and Interesting Products from the Unified Trade Show
Even if you went to Unified and spent two days on its massive trade show floor with seven hundred plus exhibitors spread out over...
The Sparkling Winemakers’ Choice for a New Year’s Toast
We asked a few sparkling winemakers to share their wine recommendations for celebrating the new year, one of their own wines, and one from...
Free Flow Wines Sparkles with Innovation on Tap and Beyond the...
Free Flow Wines saw the rising popularity of sparkling wines and the category’s particular challenges for delivering an optimal by the glass experience as...
What the Winemakers Are Drinking at Thanksgiving
We asked a few winemakers to share two wine recommendations for Thanksgiving, one of their own wines, and one from another winery, because one...
A Scary Invention
He is president of Hot Foot America, inventor of the WINnovation Award winning Fright Kite, and has worked with bird control for decades excluding...
