Tag: Silicon Valley Bank
Afternoon Brief, October 3
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Wine Enthusiast's 2017 Wine Star Award Winners
Eighteen years ago, the editors of Wine Enthusiast conceived an annual-award...
Afternoon Brief, September 25
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A Pathway to Wholesale Success for the Small Producer
"There is an inherent David and Goliath dynamic in...
Afternoon Brief, September 5
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SVB on Wine: Premium Wine Sales Decelerating
It's easy to tell people what they want to hear. It's...
Afternoon Brief, June 19
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Constellation Buys Napa Cabernet Star Schrader Cellars
Drinks giant Constellation Brands has purchased Napa Valley cult winery Schrader...
Afternoon Brief, May 30
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Lidl to Shake Up U.S. Wine Grocery Business
Will Lidl shake up the U.S. grocery store wine business...
Afternoon Brief, May 22
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Napa County Wineries Face More Permit Scrutiny
After two years of discussion, the Napa County Board of Supervisors...
Afternoon Brief, February 16
Powerful Friday Storm in Southern California; Warm & Wet Atmospheric River to Affect Oroville Dam Watershed Monday: California is currently experiencing one of its wettest winters on record. Precipitation has been especially remarkable across the Northern Sierra watersheds, where liquid equivalent (rain+melted snow) is presently above 200% of average...
Afternoon Brief, January 30
Is the Intelligent Vineyard the Future of Winegrape Growing?: Phil Asmundson is by no means a veteran viticulturist, but a half-dozen years ago, after watching his wife and business partner, Kim, augering soil samples, he recalls turning to her and saying, "No offense, but there's got to be a better way"...
Afternoon Brief, January 27
TCA Cork Tainted Wines Remain Low, but Screwcaps Stay Strong: Now that we've finished our annual look back at cork performance in Wine Spectator's Napa office blind tastings from the past year, it appears the incidence of cork taint has remained near last year's all-time low...
Afternoon Brief, January 23
Walt Ranch Approvals Head to Court: A judge will have the final word in Napa County's multi-year Walt Ranch hillside vineyard development battle...
Afternoon Brief, January 20
Sonoma Valley Vintners Alliance Prunes Away from Wine Country Weekend: While it is being billed as an amicable, beneficial parting of the ways, eyebrows raised in the wine industry yesterday when the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance announced at its annual members meeting that the trade organization will no longer co-own and co-operate the wildly successful Wine Country Weekend...
Afternoon Brief, January 19
Big Blends Take Over US Wine Lists: Restaurant wine sales in the United States are down and enormous wineries are starting to dominate wine lists, which could change the way people learn about wine...
Silicon Valley Bank Predicts Consumers Will Pay Slightly More for U.S....
Premium Wine Sales Predicted to Grow Between 10 to 14 Percent
ST. HELENA, Calif. – January 18, 2017 – Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) released its...
Afternoon Brief, January 6
Napa Valley Vintner Debbie Lewis Dies at 72: Debbie Lewis was a perfect fit for wine. She grew up on a farm in California's Central Valley and worked in wine retail at one point. Later she married race-car driver Randy Lewis and managed his career for more than a decade...
Afternoon Brief, January 4
Silicon Valley Bank 2017 State of the Industry Report: Most of the wine business has already developed their strategic plans for 2017 and is starting to execute. The plans had to be put together using history as a guide, laced with a hint of a best guess. That's just the way this family owned industry has to roll...
