Looks like things are going to get (even) worse for the global wine industry before they get better. My friend Jeff Siegel recently reported on wineindustryadvisor.com about the release of 2023 wine sales data from SipSource (owned by the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association), in a piece titled More Bad News: SipSource Report Pulls No…
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Why I’m (Mostly) Not Talking About the Silicon Valley Bank 2024 State of the Wine Industry Report
I’ve been getting some inquires privately suggesting that I should be talking about the recently-released State of the Wine Industry 2024 report by Silicon Valley Bank. But I don’t want to talk about it. It’s been covered in almost breaking news style across the wine biz since its release, and going into detail about it…
F*ck AI (Thoughts On the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Wine)
In an as-yet unpublished OpEd style piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy tentatively titled “Is AI Coming For Your Wine Job?”, I discuss some possible futures in the wine world based on the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). But now, just after I penned that article, AI can successfully identify Bordelais terroir 100% of the…
What the Wine Business Needs to Hear (or “Holy F–king Sh-t! Bruce F–king Dickinson!!”)
As I (swipe-)type this (on a cellphone in a hotel in Portugal), we’ve just finished up an extremely enlightening, successful, and engaging Wine Future 2023 conference in Coimbra. You’ll be hearing much, much more about the various important messages that the conference keynote speeches and panel discussions had for those fortunate enough to attend this…