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...
July 23, 2024
Is It Possible to Create Effective Age Restrictions for Alcohol Marketing Online? - The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) has teamed up with Google, Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok and...
October 19, 2022
Treasury Wine Estates Announces Completion of Château Lanessan Acquisition: Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE), one of the world’s leading premium wine companies, today confirmed the completion of its majority...
January 11, 2022
Rabobank: Alcohol E-Commerce Sales Surpass $6 Billion in 2021, Will Continue to Grow: U.S. online alcohol sales reached $6.1 billion in 2021 with more growth expected in 2022, according to a report based...
January 11, 2022
Report finds online alcohol sales grew 131% since 2019, easily outpacing overall food and beverage
11 January – NEW YORK — U.S. online alcohol sales reached $6.1 billion in 2021 with more growth...
May 7, 2021
A New Napa Vintner Just Made an Ambitious $10 Million Rutherford Winery Purchase: Suzanne Deal Booth is building a sizeable Napa estate with the historic Bella Oaks Vineyard...
May 4, 2021
A new Rabobank report notes the slow pace of M&A deals with smaller wineries to date in 2021, due to a massive difference in valuation expectations between buyers and sellers. Sellers view the recent...
February 17, 2021
Tennessee Legislators Aim to Limit Winery Direct Shipping Sales: Lawmakers propose banning winery direct shipping through fulfillment houses, which handle logistics for small wineries; federal court upholds...
December 21, 2020
By Elizabeth Hans McCrone
We’re all familiar with the saying that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” but for an industry that was turned on its head this last year by the ravages of Covid-19,...
October 26, 2020
Can California’s Top Wine Region Survive the Era of Megafire?: As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43 billion industry is uncertain...
October 22, 2020
Napa County Farm Bureau Releases Fire Prevention Policy and Legislative Recommendations: The Napa County Farm Bureau today released Fire Prevention Policy and Legislative Recommendations based of off extensive...
October 21, 2020
Agribusiness Researcher and Economist Leads Team to Serve Rabobank and Rabo Agrifinance Clients
NEW YORK (Oct. 21, 2020) – Rabobank has appointed veteran food and agribusiness research analyst and...
April 9, 2020
Will COVID-19 Change Online Wine Forever?: Rabobank beverage analyst Bourcard Nesin argues that the impact of the pandemic on buying habits will be a lasting one...
July 16, 2019
Wasps May Save California Vineyards from ‘Invasion’ by Chinese Fly: Researchers are concerned about the potential spread of the spotted lanternfly, which first showed up in the US in Pennsylvania five...
May 7, 2019
How Women’s Sexuality Is Used to Sell Wine: What should I wear to work? It may sound innocuous, but this loaded question was at the heart of a lively and controversial panel discussion that closed out...
March 18, 2019
Move positions bank for substantial growth in U.S. food and agriculture lending
St. Louis, Mo. (March 15, 2019) – Today, Rabobank announced that it will transfer the food and agriculture loan portfolio...














