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Beverage competition heats up as America’s biggest wine consumers drink more beer & spirits

81% of the total wine consumed in the U.S. is  drunk by high-frequency wine drinkers — 33% of the market — according to the Wine Market Council. Those vital consumers are now drinking more beer and spirits. Source: Wine Market Council via 2015 Wine Industry Financial Symposium presentation: “How to use Wine Market Council Research […]

September 28, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Majestic: Angels angry over Naked Wines closing of Kenwood tasting room without warning

Naked Wines packed up its tasting room in Kenwood and quietly left town about three weeks ago. It failed to tell any of its “Angels” about the move, and that has not set well for those who stopped and found nothing Naked to taste. Since its opening, Naked Wines has shared a tasting room with  […]

September 28, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Here’s how mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic which is beating browser traffic. What? How?

Here’s how mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic which is beating browser traffic. What? How? Morgan Stanley uses comScore data To say the browser is winning comScore uses its own data To say apps are winning Whaaaaaaaaaaat? It’s not how big you are. It’s how you are big. Morgan Stanley focuses on […]

September 27, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Is the long decline in global wine consumption leveling off?

September 24, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Handcrafted Wines buys D’Vine Wine, Brindiamo Group Advising

NEWS RELEASE Sept. 24, 2014 Brindiamo Group a leader in beverage industry mergers and acquisitions, announced that Brindiamo served as exclusive advisors in the purchase of the D’Vine Wine business by Handcrafted Wines. D’Vine Wine is a family owned importer and distributor of fine wines with operations covering the state Oregon. Handcrafted distributes wine, spirits […]

September 24, 2015 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

San Joaquin Valley wine grape percent-production slide leveling off

September 23, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

The top 5 U.S. cities for alcohol beverage expenditures offers some surprises

September 22, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Premium & discount wine had epic clashes before higher-priced brands took the dominant lead

Source: Nik Modi, RBC Capital Markets – Presentation at Wine Industry Financial Symposium

September 22, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Email marketing beats just about everything for ROI

Source: Emarketer

September 20, 2015 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine.com’s patent troll lawsuit a potential problem for rest of industry

By virtue of having been around since the early days of Internet wine sales, Wine.com, Inc. has faced year after year of travails. It made huge progress back in April of this year when a Delaware chancery court approved Wine.com’s efforts to clean up all the shares, options, warrants and other financial instruments that had […]

September 20, 2015 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More