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Here’s solid data showing that protectionist laws restricting grocery store wine, beer & spirits sales do absolutely nothing to reduce alcohol abuse

Read source link for more details: Washington Post

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Is premiumization of wine, beer and spirits being driven by the collapse of the American Middle Class? These 4 charts may be an omen.

Sources: Washington Post and the Pew Research Center Upper Income People Drink The Most Alcoholic Beverages Source: Gallup (this link also offers a lot more relevant demographics) Demand For Bargain Drinks Disappears With the Middle Class? Source: Rabobank

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Trade a bottle go to jail? That’s what the Calif ABC may have in mind if you use this new app.

If you — a private citizen without an alcoholic beverage license — want to exchange a bottle of your wine, spirits, craft beer or cider for another one offered by a like-minded (and equally unlicensed) private citizen, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control wants you to know they want to prosecute you.   And […]

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This map of the top 50 craft brewers shows their crazy concentration and the craft poverty of most flyover states.

Click this source link for the brewery key: Brewers Association

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China wine consumption to grow 3X faster than the #2 national consumer. This astonishing chart from Merrill Lynch shows you how far down the U.S. ranks. (Craft beer, anyone?)

Source: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch  

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Do you live in beer country or wine country? These maps will tell you.

Source: Washington Post

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Are you creepy or cool? Here’s what mobile customers think about your online site.

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Ron Rubin Appointed to Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation Board

NEWS RELEASE May 6, 2016 Sebastopol, CA – Ron Rubin, proprietor of The Rubin Family of Wines, has been appointed to the Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation Board of Directors.   Rubin joins the following Board Members:   John Balletto, Balletto Vineyards Kevin Barr, Redwood Empire Vineyard Management Duff Bevill, Bevill Vineyard Management Joe Dutton, […]

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Aggressively ordinary Italian, New Zealand wines dominate top 10 U.S, imports

Source: Impact

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These two charts show why your sales are doomed if you aren’t mobile ready

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