Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
What’s the argument for allowing wineries to sell direct to retailers and restaurateurs, a privilege that wine industries across the country are losing as wholesalers convince legislators to pull this privilege? It’s all summed up HERE pretty nicely in an editorial from The Daily Press in Virginia, a state whose wineries have lost that right one month ago. As for the downside of losing this right to sell directly to retailers and restaurants: "If this policy continues, some of the…
Over at the day job side of my life, we are looking to fill out our database of Wine PR types. In essence we are looking for folk who have some experience in wine public relations or some experience in PR/marketing/communications and a knowledge of wine that might recommend them as potential independent contractors or even, down the road, as hires. Here’s the kind of person we want to talk to: -You can write, write well, and write fairly quickly….
I’ve been saving this post for today because it really is a “Friday-kind-of-blog-post” subject. I think I’ve discovered my favorite winery website: Carlo Rossi. You will likely recall Carlo Rossi from your youth or from the grocery store or drug store aisle where you got to pick up your margarita mix. Carlo Rossi is a jug wine producer owned by E and J Gallo. They put wine in big 4 liter jugs. They produce wines like “Paisano”, “Rhine”, “Chablis”, “Sangria”…
The Hypergigantitholic (that’s a technical term in the wine industry meaning "BIG") wine company known a Constellation seems to find itself in a bit of an embarrassing situation down in Australia. According to reports, in an attempt to influence sales trials at a dining chain that was testing the popularity of a couple Constellation brands before adding them to their list, Constellation told their employees to go to these restaurants and buy the wine in order to "maximize volumes" during…
Amy Lillard produces what I think might be the most entertaining winery blog on the Internet. There’s nothing really ground breaking about her "La Gramiere" Blog. But it is entertaining as hell. I think what makes it so is that in her posts you can actually read a sub plot of real giddiness. Amy and her Husband Matt recently bought a vineyard in the Rhone and set about making wine. Her blog chronicles their introduction, as it were, to the…
