December 12, 2017
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy New Year, and if I have missed your specific holiday, please celebrate that as well. We are at the end of the year and now, it is time to look forward. The only real...
December 7, 2017
Cheryl Durzy with WINnovation Award, photo courtesy of North Bay Business Journal
The vast majority of wineries in the US produce less than 5,000 cases, and they’ve been essentially blocked from three-tier...
November 7, 2017
Five wine businesses awarded WINnovation Awards
Whether solving a problem or seizing an opportunity, these five wine industry suppliers used ingenuity and technology to develop innovative products and...
September 25, 2017
“There is an inherent David and Goliath dynamic in three-tier distribution,” says Brian Rosen, owner of BevStrat. “It is skewed toward the top 300 brands globally, and the top five distributors focus on...
April 12, 2017
In my role as National Spokesperson for Liberation Distribution I have been making the rounds at industry meetings and events for the last few months. I sit at the podium, microphone, or stage and...
April 5, 2017
From 1961 to 1989 the Berlin Wall cut off and divided West Berlin from East Berlin. In November of 1989 it came down and reunited a city, a county, and perhaps Europe. Why it was there and what it stood...
March 22, 2017
Consolidation continues to make distributors bigger and fewer while the number of producers grow with new small producers enter the market. The vast majority of wineries in the US produce less than 5,000...



