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COVID surge to extend at-home AlcBev consumption

Consumer Staples COVID-19 Tracker: Week 15, July 6, 2020 From Nik Modi (nik.modi@rbccm.com), RBC Capital Markets|Equity Research – US Beverages, Household Personal Care and Tobacco Analyst   “COVID Elasticity and Panic Buying II: While officials have not yet issued plans for returns to stay-at-home orders, there are rumblings of panic buying and pantry stocking in […]

July 6, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Constellation sells Mega Purple & other concentrate businesses to Vie-Del Co.

From Constellation Brands FORM 8-K — Filed June 30, 2020 “Effective June 24, 2020, Vie-Del Company agreed to acquire from Constellation Brands U.S. Operations, Inc. (“CBUSO”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Inc. (“Constellation”), CBUSO’s Mega Purple, Mega Red, MegaNatural, and Canandaigua Concentrate brands used in CBUSO’s concentrates and high-color concentrate business, and certain intellectual […]

July 1, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Spirits continue to lead wine and beer in Nielsen Off-Premise AlcBev sales

Overview: Nielsen COVID-19 insights and analysis Nielsen.com: COVID-19: Tracking the Impact on FMCG, Retail and Media Nielsen.com: How Americans are Shopping During COVID-19 Nielsen.com: Scenarios Beyond COVID-19: Rebound, Reboot, Reinvent Nielsen.com: Rebalancing the ‘COVID-19 Effect’ on Alcohol Sales Nielsen CGA: COVID-19: Measuring the On Premise Impact   Unless otherwise noted, all trends below are for […]

July 1, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Spirits still lead growth in Nielsen Off-Premise data; Non-West Coast wineries lead DTC growth

Unless otherwise noted, all trends below are for dollar sales within Nielsen U.S. off-premise channels for the one-week period ending 6/13/20 compared to the same week in 2019. We continue to remind our readers that we are only measuring some specific off premise channels, and that the impact of the health crisis on sales is […]

June 24, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Lew lost his shirt at the Vino Casino and no longer buys wine he hasn’t previously tasted and likes

  Lew has not been posting new wines here lately because he’s finally done spending money on wine he does not like. That’s because the house always wins at the Vino Casino.   Over the past 5 years, Lew has attempted to find wines at retail that he has not tried before and that he […]

June 17, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

COVID boost in off-premise alcohol sales were expected to slow by now, but are still booming.

NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, all trends below are for dollar sales within Nielsen U.S. off-premise channels for the one-week period ending 6/6/20 compared to the same week in 2019. We continue to remind our readers that we are only measuring some specific off premise channels, and that the impact of the health crisis on sales […]

June 16, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Off-premise wine growth must maintain 22% growth rates to offset the on-premise losses = Nielsen

From Nielsen:   On-premise wine consumption is up 30.8% in dollar sales even for the latest 12-week time frame when COVID-19 heavily impacted consumer behavior, According to Nielsen. The increase is for the week ending March 7 the week ending May 23 this year in aggregate from in-store retail measurement.   Under a full lockdown […]

June 3, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Sonoma County puts a target on all its wineries by not identifying the one reporting 14 employees testing positive for COVID-19

  Sonoma County Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase has said that 14 employees at an unidentified Sonoma County winery had positive for COVID-19. In a May 29 article, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat quoted Mase: “I can tell you there’s a winery that’s involved, there are 14 persons that are positive in that winery and […]

June 1, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Sullivan Rutherford Estate outlines transition to new management team and revived emphasis on quality and preservation of winery history

Sullivan Rutherford Estate is pleased to announce the latest developments at the historic Napa Valley estate, founded in 1972. Since acquiring the property in early-2018, Juan Pablo Torres Padilla, Managing Partner, has quietly assembled one of the valley’s most impressive leadership groups, which includes General Manager Joshua Lowell, Estate Director Lisa Barker-Mullen, Vineyard Manager Mike […]

May 28, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Nielsen: Big wineries grab 70% of COVID sales – Table and sparkling wine continue off-premise surge – DtC average price declines

Source Nielsen, U.S. off-premise channels, reflecting the week ending May 16, 2020. For the latest 11-week time frame when COVID-19 heavily impacted consumer behavior (from the week ending 3/7/20 through the week ending 5/16/20), we’ve seen the following change in dollar sales in aggregate (from our in-store retail measurement):   Total alcohol: +27% Beer/FMB/cider: +21.7% […]

May 28, 2020 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More