Tag: Wine Market Council
Afternoon Brief June 10
A surprising market for North Coast wine grapes: The current market for California's North Coast wine grapes is like nothing Brian Clements, vice president of Turrentine Brokerage, Novato, Calif. has seen in 25 years of matching sellers with buyers...
Wine Market Council Issues Their First $10,000 Wine Research Grant to...
Under the grant Johnston will research how Millennials respond to traditional and less traditional wine packaging and he will present his findings at the...
Afternoon Brief, April 1
Brown orders California's first mandatory water restrictions: 'It's a different world': Gov. Jerry Brown, standing on a patch of brown grass in the Sierra Nevada that is usually covered with several feet of snow at this time of year, on Wednesday announced the first mandatory water restrictions in California history...
Afternoon Brief, February 13
Among Treasury Wine Estates' key initiatives in the U.S. market in recent months has been a renewed emphasis on the $10-$20 price area, a strategy that is now yielding growth on several of its main brands...
Afternoon Brief, February 12
Canada's agriculture minister is threatening tariffs on California wine if the U.S. doesn't repeal restrictive meat-labeling laws costing Canadian farmers billions...
Wine Market Council Releases 2014 Consumer Consumption Habits
Wine Market Council, the non-profit association of grape growers, wine producers, importers, distributors and other affiliated wine businesses, has compiled relevant research available to any journalists covering wine consumption.
Afternoon Brief, February 11
The Wine Market Council presented their 10th annual report on U.S. wine consumer trends...
What Are Consumers Drinking And Where Are They Buying It From?
The Wine Market Council provided the company’s 10th annual presentation on U.S. wine consumer trends. Here are some of the highlights from the presentation.
According...
Afternoon Brief, February 9
While sales of wine retailing for more than $9 or $10 a bottle in the U.S. are growing rapidly, sales of lower-priced wine, considered a gateway for new consumers, are buckling under strong competition from other alcoholic beverages...
Afternoon Brief, December 18
Scarcity Sends California Vineyard Prices Soaring: A local real estate expert says the price per acre in Napa could reach Burgundy levels within a generation. Napa Valley will see vineyards sell for $1 million per acre in the next 30 years, a local expert predicts...
Wine Market Council Announces its Tenth Annual Consumer Research Conferences Including...
Guest speakers, Eric Asimov and Jon Bonné, will join John Gillespie of Wine Market Council and Danny Brager of Nielsen’s Beverage Alcohol Practice to...
Afternoon Brief, December 10
Silicon Valley Bank Annual Wine Conditions Survey Results: 82% of wineries reported overall financial health of "good" or better for 2014. This is up 7% over the previous year. This trend is expected to continue as the grapes from three strong harvests (2012,2013, and 2014) make their way into the market...
Wine Market Council Elects Constellation Brands’ Dale Stratton as Board of...
St. Helena, CA, December 10, 2014 — Wine Market Council announced today that Dale Stratton, Vice President of Strategic Insights for the Wine &...
Afternoon Brief: November 7
And the best wine retailer in America is?:
In my travels and lectures I am often asked, and by often I mean many times a day, who I feel the best retailer in U.S. is, and should distributor X and supplier Y sell their wines/ spirits/crafts there?...
Afternoon Brief, November 3
Wine Spectator to Unveil Top 100 Wines of 2014:
After tasting more than 18,000 wines from vineyards around the globe, the editors at Wine Spectator are set to release their much-anticipated list of the Top 100 Wines of 2014...
