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Sonoma Wineries Are Itching to Open Up Their Doors and Invite Back Visitors
May 6, 2020
The shelter-in-place order has been hard on wineries that rely on tasting room and on-premise sales as well as their front line allies, tasting room staff and waiters, who have been out of a job...
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Off-Premise Wine Sales Boom Weakening
April 8, 2020
The off-premise alcohol purchasing frenzie sparked by the pandemic lockdown peaked in the first full week, and wine sales were down -24% comparatively in the following week ending March 28, according to...
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Where Will Wine Sales Come from Next Month?
March 31, 2020
Despite wineries being shuttered and millions of people sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have not stopped buying wine, but have increasingly turned to other channels for their...
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Pandemic Alcohol Stock-Up Skews Toward Wine
March 25, 2020
Consumers have been stocking up in preparation for an extended COVID-19 pandemic and sheltering in place. Most of the purchases have of course been focused on perishables and toilet paper, but alcoholic...
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Corona Pandemic Boosts Alcohol Deliveries
March 18, 2020
Wineries, bars, and restaurants are closed across the world and people are staying home, but they still want their favorite drinks, and to get them, they are increasingly turning to delivery services...
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Coronavirus Again Exposes Fragility of Hospitality Driven Wine Business
March 16, 2020
In the beginning of March when the seriousness of the Coronavirus outbreak began to dawn on US Consumers, WineDirect noticed an immediate 22% volume decrease in weekend tasting room sales compared to the...
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Five New and Innovative Products from This Year’s Unified Trade Show
February 19, 2020
ASEV promised that this year’s Unified Wine & Grape Symposium was going to be big, and it was. The trade show stretched across four buildings at the Cal Expo plus an outdoor exhibit area. Even if you...
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Wine Is in Decline, but Sonoma Still Sees Growth and Opportunity
January 17, 2020
This year the Sonoma County Winegrowers’ annual Dollars and $ense meeting was held in conjunction with the Sonoma County Vintners, and Glenn Proctor, Board of Directors Chairman for the Sonoma County Winegrowers...
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Wineries Sue Insurers for $20 Million in Smoke Taint Losses
October 21, 2019
Kunde and Vintage Wine Estates (VWE) have filed suit against their insurers at Sonoma County Superior Court collectively seeking approximately $20 million in losses. The wineries claim their insurers wrongfully...
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Arming the Wine Industry for the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
August 29, 2019
Challenges are looming for the wine industry on multiple fronts; overall growth is flattening, new generations have a different relationship to alcohol, climate change and wildfires complicate winemaking,...
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