Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
For those of us that believe Californian wines have tended toward the overly extracted, alcoholic and bombastic over the past decade or so, there is always the hope that the tide will turn; that the pendulum will swing in the other direction toward more restraint and balance. We are looking for signs. I found a promising sign. Such a sign is likely to come from someone who tastes lots of wine and who also has noticed the tendency (rush?) toward…
I recall the day when I thanked God for the inherent prudishness of the Federal Government. It was that prudishness that delivered to me one of my favorite experiences as a wine publicist. Alas, it seems these days the Feds don’t have time to protect the sensibilities of wine drinkers from "offensive" images on wine labels. It must have been around 1991 when working at a PR agency, I was assigned to work on the Clos Pegase account. It was…
Wine Business Monthly’s Cyril Penn reports in the San Francisco Chronicle that we are buying more expensive wines than in the past. For the record, in this calculation "expensive" equates to $15 and a above. Without seeming like a snob, which I realize is hard at times for me, that doesn’t strike me as "expensive". However, in the overall scheme of things (that "scheme" being what most people tend to spend on wine) $15 is "expensive". According to Cyril’s reading…
News is out that the MKF Research Study on the American Wine Industry demonstrates that wine and grapes contribute more than $162 Billion to the American economy. Pretty staggering! There is so much interesting information in this report it’s hard to really talk about it all. So I want to focus on one piece of interesting information: Between 2000 and 2005 the number of wineries in the United States increase from 2,904 to 4,929: A 70% INCREASE in the number…
Wow…Talk about Niche Wine Blogging! How about a wine blog run by a recruiter for the wine industry about jobs and working in the wine industry? That’s what Amy Gardner of Wine Talent has slowly (and quietly) started up at blog she calls "Career Advice In the Wine Industry". I’ve never met Amy, but her embarking on creating a blog on careers in wine and working in the wine industry is brilliant, necessary and likely to bring her business down…
