Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Among the things I do every morning after the coffee is brewed is sit down and look through the various emails I receive the deliver aggregated wine news. Today, I opened the Wine Business Monthly Daily News Links email and saw these headlines: Wine Demand Outstripping Supply Forecast: Wine, grape prices to rise in 2012 Experts predict rebound in wine prices, plantings 2011 a vintage year for sales of California wine I then moved on to Wine Industry Insight's News…
Today in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes about the era of "average" being over: "Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius." He's correct, it seems to me. Looking just at the amazing tools now available to wine marketers that are ALSO FREE and you get…
If I'm not mistaken, we are seeing the development of a strong cultural aversion to the now notorious "1 Percent". Put another way, there appears to me to be a strong and still developing cultural and political zeitgeist that includes diminished respect, and even distaste, for financial elite, their demonstrations of wealth, their political power and the issues they care about. (Before someone mentions that I've used the term "zeitgeist" incorrectly by making observations of the present, rather than a…
In a recent post concerning New Jersey and the State of Direct Shipping, I concluded by writing, "There is a great deal to do across the country to make consumer interests paramount in the alcohol regulatory world." This kind of vague pronouncement doesn't actually layout the conditions that would result in a consumer-centric wine marketplace. I should have been much more clear. There are in fact a set of specific conditions that would reflect a consumer driven wine marketplace. What's…
With New Jersey passing direct shipping legislation on Monday and the governor only needing to sign it, really one more significant state exists where the wineries and significant numbers of wine consumers need to get direct shipping: Pennsylvania. Yet the New Jersey experience demonstrates all the various dynamics that are currently in place in the world of direct shipping politics. 1. The Minors Issue Is Played OutAlthough opponents to direct shipping will sometimes argue that Direct Shipping will lead to…
