Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Winebid.com remains one of the surviving early dotcom wine ventures. It survived for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it presents a business model that is so perfectly suited to the Internet.Their most recent achievement is pretty cool. They just finished having Apex Wine Cellar install a 100,000 bottle Malaysian Mahogany racking system in their temperature controlled warehouse in Napa. 100,000 bottles. As you can see from the photos, that’s a pretty cool thing. What’s…
Can you trust a wine retailer’s recommendation? They are, after all, in the business of selling wine and one presumes that a wine they have on their shelves can’t be ignored, let alone dissed by them. This is the question at the heart of a very interesting story in the LA Times by Jerry Hirsch that focuses on Wilfred Wong, Beverage & More’s Online Cellarmaster and the person who reviews wines exclusively for BevMo and who’s reviews and ratings show…
John Gavin, best known as the author of Quaffability Blog and popular web designer to the wineries is on a roll with two new and innovative websites that wine lovers probably should be aware of. WEB TASTING ROOM It’s a video blog. It’s a source of excellent deals. It’s a message direct from the winemaker. What John has done here is create not just a web site the provides access to good deals on wines, but gives you much deeper…
I missed the Unified Symposium this year, and I’m worse off for it. It’s an important event. However, I did read the news coming out of the Symposium about the state of my beloved California wine industry. All good news. All GREAT News! For example: "Industry experts assessed the industry at the 2008 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento Jan. 30 with a dizzying array of charts, tables and graphs. The data show a healthy and thriving market for…
It is most often the case that single individuals are the cause of change or the inspiration for change in (and the evolution of) the wine industry. This is not unique to the wine business. However, it must also be noted that associations, organizations and, yes, CONSORTIUMS can and have pushed issues forward, and caused significant change in this industry. The California Wine Institute, Family Winemakers of California, Wine America, AWARE (for those of you who remember this group), Specialty…
