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Lewis Perdue is an entrepreneur, technologist, scientist, professor, author, publisher, journalist, and outdoorsman. Click here for more on Lew. Email Lew at: lewis[dot]perdue[at]wineindustryinsight[dot]com

COVID-19 may be hammering winery tasting room sales says WineDirect data

  The Novel Coronavirus looks as if it’s having  a substantial impact on winery tasting room sales.   According to Adrienne Stillman, Marketing Director for WineDirect, “Over the past weekend, we observed a 22% decrease in tasting room sales by volume compared to last month. This confirms the anecdotes we’ve been hearing from wineries: that […]

March 10, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Coronavirus will clobber tourism, shave nearly half a point off US GDP – will zero it out if lockdown needed

Source: Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company  in a study done for Visit California Full study at this link

March 10, 2020 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

This U.S. Wine production chart shows just how dominant California is

Source: American Association of Wine Economists

March 10, 2020 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Consumers find reviewer descriptions unhelpful for wine selection

March 10, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Gallo #3 as Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo dominate global power brand list

Source: Wine Intelligence via Harpers

March 9, 2020 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Advertising integrity issues still plague Wine Business Monthly as email to advertisers fails to address concerns raised by media buyers, ad agencies and auditors

NOTE: The author of this article, Lewis Perdue, is an award-winning investigative journalist, and has worked in a senior position with J. Walter Thompson advertising, and as a managing director with MSLGROUP/Publicis. He has taught journalism and communications as a member of the regular faculties at Cornell University and UCLA. He is the founder of […]

March 8, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Can the US Wine Market Regain Its Momentum?

 Source: Rabobank Wine Quarterly Q1 “Tariffs, trade agreements, and the coronavirus outbreak have shaped global trade in recent months,” according to Stephen Rannekleiv, global Strategist Beverages at Rabobank. “Hopefully, the latter will be contained quickly, but lost demand from the period will not be recovered. Tariffs and trade disputes are here to stay, and although […]

March 6, 2020 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Consumer sentiment is handling Coronavirus a lot better than the stock markets (so far)

Source: Morning Consult

March 6, 2020 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Integrated Beverage Group Acquires Oregon’s Ransom Wine Co. & Distillery

NEWS IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 5, 2020 Purchase Introduces Award-Winning Crafts Spirits to IBG’s Portfolio and Diversifies Wine Offerings   Denver, CO, March 5, 2020 – Integrated Beverage Group (IBG) announced today that it has acquired Ransom Wine Co. & Distillery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in partnership with Ransom Founder, Tad Seestedt. An award-winning producer of […]

March 5, 2020 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More

TerrAvion partners with Cloud Agronomics to deliver advanced agricultural insights to growers and ag businesses

NEWS RELEASE March 3, 2020   San Leandro, CA: Cloud Agronomics is TerrAvion’s latest partner offering next-generation agricultural insights on crop performance that changes the way the industry looks at crop yields, pricing, and other critical agrarian business decisions. TerrAvion’s imagery program provides a professional platform strategically located across the United States for Cloud Agronomics’ […]

March 5, 2020 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More