Archive for the ‘Wine Consumers’ Category
Wines & Vines Magazine has done a terrific job surveying the landscape of the relatively new "Flash Sale Wine Websites". These are deep discounters on the web that offer generally one wine for a limited amount of time at a significant discount. The Wines & Vines Articles, written by Paul Franson, identifies the largest of these sites along with some pretty interesting metrics surrounding average discount and traffic to the Flash Sale web sites. The big question surrounding Flash Sale…
"The largest selection of Italian wines under one roof anywhere in America." The "Roof" is the Waldorf-Astoria, the "anywhere" is New York City and the "selection" is VINO 2011: ITALIAN WINE WEEK. When I was called and asked to moderate a seminar panel for the Italian producers and wine marketers attending Vino 2011 next week, I jumped at the chance. Having been invited to attend this event before and sit on a seminar panel, I became well aware that the…
It's so rare that opponents of regulated consumer access to wine are so willing to demonstrate their ignorance, bias, hypocrisy and self serving intentions. Yet, thanks to Paul Mabray's VinTank interview with Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association President Craig Wolf we get more than a glimpse into these commonplace foibles. In the interest of clearing up fallacies, setting the record straight, correcting historical inaccuracies, and giving my readers a glimpse into the sometimes bizarre conclusions and positions of wine wholesalers…
There are many reasons why America is not the kind of nation and Americans not the kind of people that can be singled out as a "Wine Drinking Culture". You can look at our country's early religious experience or our proximity to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and the subsequent cheap rum it provided early on or the inability of traditional wine grapes to do well in the Colonies in the 18th Century or numerous other reasons. But I…
This week, upon being sworn in and taking over control of the House of Representatives, Republicans will take to the floor of the House to read the entire United States Constitution. What does this have to do with wine? Not much really, but the relationship between commerce and wine, and the way our Constitution sets up a single economic union, is important for us to be aware of. It's important particularly in 2011 since it is likely that one way…
