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Afternoon Brief, May 19th
2022 Sonoma County Wine Auction Announces Vintner and Chef Honorees: Sonoma County Vintners Foundation is thrilled to announce Jean-Charles Boisset as Vintner Honoree and Dustin Valette as Chef Honoree for the 2022 Sonoma County Wine Auction (SCWA)...
Afternoon Brief, April 28th
Champagne Nukes Its Own Vineyards: Champagne's backstep from its own environmental principles is playing out in its vineyards, which increasingly resemble a nuclear wasteland...
Afternoon Brief, April 27th
Wine Trade Faces Supply Chain, War Fallout After Record Year - OIV: Supply chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine could curb global wine trade after it rebounded last year to a record level as countries eased coronavirus-related restrictions, international wine body OIV said on Wednesday...
DTC Crackdown: Understand State Laws to Avoid Entanglement
There could well be a silver lining in the number of states that have stepped up enforcement of direct to consumer (DTC) shipping regulations....
DTC Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
By fully understanding what kind of DTC markets are out there, and the different regulatory rules for each, wineries can position themselves to succeed...
Afternoon Brief, April 11th
Napa County Wineries Sued Over Website Accessibility Call for More Clear Compliance Terms: Dozens of Napa County wineries have been sued for website accessibility non-compliance in the last year, causing frustration and confusion for the businesses hit with the lawsuits...
Afternoon Brief, March 28th
Using Alternative Yeasts to Replace Sulfites in Wines: New research shows that non-Saccharomyces yeasts could be an effective way to cut sulfur dioxide use in the cellar—and even the vineyard...
Afternoon Brief, February 28th
California Growers Left High and Dry: Farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley got some bad news this week when they learned they will get 0 percent of the water this year normally expected from the federal Central Valley Project...
The Next Normal—DtC Shipping Reverts to Pre-Pandemic Predictions
—Alexandra Russell
The 2022 Direct to Consumer Wine Shipping Report has been released, and the industry is likely breathing a collective sigh of relief. The...
Afternoon Brief, January 25th
One of the World's Largest Wine Industry Events Begins in Sacramento—With No Wine Tastings: One of the largest wine industry trade shows in the world began Tuesday in Sacramento. But a key feature of the festivities will be largely missing: wine tasting...
Expert Inspection of the Executive Order Promoting Competition in American Economy
Last year's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy caused a great deal of buzz within the beverage alcohol industry. However, for...
Afternoon Brief, January 12th
The Wine Industry Pledged to Improve Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity—Has Anything Changed?: In 2020, several critical events caused the wine industry to reckon with the underrepresentation and mistreatment of marginalized groups in all sectors of the trade. The industry found itself under intense scrutiny from within and without...
Afternoon Brief, December 30th
What Are the Future Digital Technology Trends In Wine? New OIV Study Reveals Answers: Robots in the vineyards, AI wine critics, and block chain 4x4QR codes to track wine and provide transparency to consumers. These are just a few of the topics that were presented by a panel of wine technology experts as part of a recent 2021 OIV study...
Afternoon Brief, December 27th
After Four Harrowing Years of Smoke and Fires, Bay Area Wineries Rejoice in a ‘Normal’ Harvest: Bay Area winemakers will remember 2021 as the year without wildfires. In sharp contrast to the last several years, no Wine Country estates were destroyed, no Cabernet grapes tainted by smoke, no fermentations abandoned in the wake of an emergency evacuation order...
DtC Expert Analysis: Lessons Learned in 2021, Predictions for 2022
Looking back at 2021, there's been many—even if subtle—shifts in the beverage alcohol direct-to-consumer (DtC) space. More states are opening options for DtC shipping,...