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Dr. Kelley brings some fresh perspectives around wine marketing for smaller or family-owned operations, has provided us with a plethora of resources all available on our Show Notes, and created some reasonable action items for wineries to utilize today. Home / Podcasts / Season 2, Episode 8: Effective Wine Marketing with Dr. Kathy Kelley

The biggest news in the beverage-alcohol industry’s middle tier is getting bigger: Reyes Beverage Group (RBG) will acquire five additional markets from its rival, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC). VinePair has reviewed internal communications from the latter wholesaler describing the purchase, which is an expansion and revision of the previously announced exchange. RBG acknowledged VinePair’s …

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Noah Dorrance has been making wine in Sonoma for decades, and during that time he’s witnessed the industry change dramatically. When he started his first label, Banshee, in 2009, wine consumption was on the up (and kept rising), and wineries continued to boom through the early 2010s. Roughly 15 years later, things have shifted dramatically, …

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302: New Cover Crop Tool for Western Growers Cover crops play a critical role in building healthy, resilient soils in vineyards and agricultural systems. Sarah Light,…

In recent years, wineries across the world have been trying to reach younger generations. That’s the exact crowd that has caught on to Scribe Winery. Brothers Andrew and Adam Mariani founded Scribe in Sonoma in 2007. Since then, it has gained major traction with the media and hip West Coasters — as the San Francisco …

7 Things You Should Know About Scribe, Sonoma’s Cool-Kid Winery Read More »

 When it comes to the world’s most wanted Chardonnay, we look beyond Burgundy.

When we last checked in on the Good Ship BrewDog midway through last month, it was in rough seas. Leaking cash and drifting further from a long-promised public listing with each passing year, the Scottish craft brewery’s board hired a restructuring firm in January known for its mop-ups of General Motors, Enron, and the Bernie …

Everybody Got Burned in BrewDog’s Sell-Off. Will Tilray, Too? Read More »

A federal grand jury indicted five executives of the nation’s largest alcohol distributor, Southern Glazer’s, for allegedly bribing a California grocery store buyer.

Producers idle facilities, lay off workers and sell assets amid falling wine consumption and mounting financial pressures across the U.S.