January 13, 2021
20th annual report indicates changes to wine sales in a post-COVID world NAPA, Calif. – January 13, 2021 –– Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors,...
January 11, 2021
Wine's Bubble Yet to Burst: After a surprisingly good year for the wine industry, what comes next..?
January 4, 2021
Mondavi’s Judd Wallenbrock Predicts a Premium Year in 2021: It’s apparent in speaking with Judd Wallenbrock, CEO of C. Mondavi & Family (parent company to Charles Krug), that he is highly optimistic about...
January 14, 2020
Oversupply of Premium Wine, Slower Sales Growth to Spur Discount Brands, Says Silicon Valley Bank Forecast: It used to be enough for U.S. wineries to make great wine and find ways to get it into the hands...
December 17, 2019
Wine Institute applauds today's vote in the House of Representatives to extend federal excise tax benefits for all wineries and urges the Senate to ensure this legislation becomes law ...
October 24, 2019
Fast-Moving Wildfire Ignites in Northern California Wine Country, Prompting Evacuations: A fast-moving wildfire aided by powerful winds in Northern California's wine country has prompted mandatory evacuation...
October 18, 2019
From Tariffs to Cannabis, Napa Valley Vintners Take on New Challenges: Formed 75 years ago this month, the Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) trade group now includes 550 wineries representing 99% of Napa Valley...
September 11, 2019
Why X Marks the Spot for Selling Wine - Generation X, the most infamously pilloried and self-deprecating population cohort the world has known since it started naming generations, may finally get its due...
May 28, 2019
Purple Wine + Spirits Seeks Sizable Change to West Sonoma County Winery: At a time when a number of North Coast vintners have been trying to get permission to expand how much wine they can produce, Purple...
April 29, 2019
Turning a Critical Eye on Wine Critics: One of the frequent digs made in the Cabernet-infused cock pit of the bad old days (the Robert Parker bulletin board in the mid-noughties) was that, while the likes...