Afternoon Brief, December 28th

The Existential Crisis of Bordeaux's Small Grapegrowers: Protesters carried dead vines through the streets of Bordeaux, pleading for help as shrinking wine consumption in France and changes in China have left them facing ruin...

Napa, Calif. – Wineshipping and 24 Seven Enterprises which includes Pack n’ Ship Direct and Vin-Go, all industry leaders in direct to consumer (DTC) wine fulfillment solutions, today announced the completion of a business combination. The combined entity will be part of Wineshipping’s parent, DTC Logistics, and creates the nation’s largest alcohol beverage DTC logistics provider The new venture is a perfect fit combining complementary capabilities and expertise into a best-in-class partner providing DTC solutions to wine producers, retailers, e-commerce and wholesale companies. Through a combined national network of temperature-controlled locations in every region of the country, the new enterprise will have the capability to serve consumers with same-day delivery to major metropolitan areas and one to two-day ground delivery to all other locations. Eric Lewis, who joined Wineshipping in January 2020 from recent executive positions at Amazon, Google and Cas