Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
Reason Magazine, a bastion of….reason….has released a video interview with Jerome Tuccille, the author of "Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market". It's pretty interesting. I've not read the book, but it sounds as though what we have here is a social history of the rise of American wine and the evolution of American culture told from the perspective of the rise of the Gallo via the Ernest and…
Yesterday, Inertia Beverage Group (a Wark Communications client) acquired the assets of New Vine, the Napa-based logistics firm specializing in delivering wine through a variety of methods. The current accumulation of press coverage of this event is listed below. BusinessWire: Inertia Beverage Group Statement on New Vine Acquisition San Francisco Business Times: IBG Nabs New Vine Logistics for $4.5 Million in Foreclosure Auction, By Chris Rauber Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Inertia Wines Auction for New Vine Assets, By Kevin McCallum…
I've been following direct shipment litigation now for well over a decade. At first I read briefs and decisions issued in the various cases across the country because clients of mine were helping push the issue forward. Reading not only legal briefs but also decisions and analyses of court decisions means learning another language if you are not a lawyer. And I am decided not a lawyer. Still, it's actually been something of a great intellectual pleasure for me to…
Over the years I've found myself in a position of asking my colleagues in the wine industry and folks in the hospitality industries to give me things. "Donations" they are called. Some people are better than others at doing the asking. I fall somewhere in the middle. In asking for wines, airline tickets, hotel rooms, memorabilia and other items, almost always for auctions, I have learned one thing: You get your best results when you tell the potential giver that…
The three-tier system of having a “distributor” in between the producer of wine and the wine retailer was put into place after prohibition to prevent the abuses associated with “tied houses” prior to prohibition. Unfortunately this system has merely served to duplicate the corruption that it was created to fix. Prior to prohibition, suppliers wielded so much power they could control retailers by threatening not to supply them. Retailers became “tied” to particular alcohol producers. The “tied” retailers were forced…
