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…
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Get Ready For Some Killer Bulk Wine
Given the recent musings here about how ugly the fine wine scene currently is (and is going to get), it feels refreshingly apt to today provide what might be a touch-of-grey silver lining to that (very) dark cloud. Intrepid friend of 1WD Bob Henry (thanks, Bob!) recently alerted me to a handful of news articles…
Things Are Going to Get Worse Before They Get Better (Thoughts on SipSource’s 2023 Wine Data)
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…
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…