Yet more bad news for the wine biz: European wines and spirits are now trapped under a 15% U.S. tariff—with no exemption in sight. Kick us while we’re down, why don’t ya?!? Despite impassioned lobbying by France and Italy, Washington has held firm against carving out wine and spirits from this tariff sweep. Those of…
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California Wine’s No Good, Very Bad Month
As sunny California is still reeling from having to accept that the Philadelphia Eagles are conclusively, unarguably the greatest team in the NFL at the moment, even more bad news has hit the state’s wine industry—and, by extension, the USA’s wine industry (which California production volume dominates almost as much as the Birds dominated the…
We Told You So (Wine Media’s Day of Reckoning Is Here, and Can We Fix It?)
“I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless… Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it’s here.” — Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War I once described my friend and wine/tech-intersection guru Paul Mabray as the Steve Rogers to my Tony Stark….
More Proof That the DtC Underage Drinking Argument Is Bullsh*t
Last week, you might have missed a brief butt important article titled Direct-to-Consumer Shipping and Underage Consumption, penned by Alex Koral, Regulatory General Counsel for Sovos ShipCompliant, and published on WineBusiness.com. In his pithy write-up, Koral touched on a topic that has been a nettle up my wine-sniffing schnoz for at least the last 14…