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US Coronavirus Case Reports Haven’t Affected Consumer Sentiment…Yet

Source: Morning Consult

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Kunde, Vintage Wine Estates Continue Smoke Taint Insurance complaints as individual cases in Federal court

Kunde Winery and Vintage Wine Estates  (VWE) have renewed their battle with their insurance companies charging that valid claims for almost $20 million in smoke-tainted wines from 2017 were not covered. The two wine companies filed suit last fall in Sonoma County Superior Court against National Surety Corporation (Allianz), Certain Underwriters At Lloyd’s, London – Royal […]

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Venge Vineyards, 2016 Napa Valley Syrah, Stage Coach Vineyard Block I-4

I had to cure yesterday’s Miserable Monday, so I pulled my last bottle out of the cellar. Intensely well-behaved, balanced, with clarion notes of black cherry, currants and pomegranate. The reputation and greatness of this vineyard is in decline now that its new owners are substantially increasing the number of planted acres, moving to high-production […]

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Serving up the value in the DTC Flywheel: Create!

  The DTC Wine Vendor Flywheel (below) is put together by Paul Mabray with the help of Erica Gomez with the goal of helping wineries discover and navigate the crowded landscape of DTC wine vendors.   Its über-high-density of its information makes it hard to grasp all of the value — like having all four-courses […]

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CA, TX, NJ lead in Amazon facilities that can legalize its wine alcbev sales. 2 charts show you where and how many.

Source: CNBC Source: MWPVL NOTE: The MWPVL link (above) goes to 2 tables showing the full addresses of all AMZN warehouses on the United States and around the world.

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Disinformation for hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online

Source: Buzzfeed News

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2017 Venge Vineyards Petite Sirah Oso Vineyard (Calistoga/Napa Valley)

Bodacious with black cherry, super dark chocolate notes matched by a solid, perfectly balanced backbone of oak & tannins. Gigantic flavor explosion. WARNING: Not for the timid. Best Petite Sirah I have ever had. $75 at the winery. lp

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DTC: Bottles over $100 were up 15% by volume in 2019: Sovos

Source: Sovos (PDF)

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Wine DTC Hits Record $3.2 Billion in 2019 Amid Slowing Growth

NEWS RELEASE PR Newswire/January 22, 2020   Annual Sovos ShipCompliant Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shipping Report points to slowing channel growth despite prices reaching new highs.   BOSTON, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Wineries shipped more than $3.2 billion worth of wine directly to consumers in 2019, according to the latest Direct-to-Consumer (DtC) Wine Shipping Report from […]

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Consumers say brands are trying too hard to appear altruistic

Source: Morning Consult

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