Afternoon Brief: The 2025 Crop Was Down an Equivalent of 72 Million Cases from the Five-Year Average
Following the release of the Preliminary 2025 California Grape Crush Report, Turrentine Brokerage, the largest California grape and bulk wine brokerage company, has issued a market assessment characterizing the 2025 vintage as one of the most challenging for the wine industry since Prohibition...
Afternoon Brief: California Wine Month Highlights Sustainability and Innovation
While the industry faces headwinds with shifting consumer trends, international competition, and market challenges, Berge remains optimistic...
Afternoon Brief: Wine Could Escape Dietary Guidelines
The appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary could see dietary guidelines for wine scrapped...
Afternoon Brief: This Private Equity Company Is Quietly Becoming a Pacific Northwest Wine Powerhouse
Who is this new Seattle-based competitor scooping up winery after winery? And given the current climate of panic in the industry on the whole, whats driving them and whats the endgame?
Afternoon Brief: What Does California's Grape Oversupply Mean for the Trade?
There are a record number of premium grapes being offered on the cheap in California. But what does this mean for the wine trade?
Afternoon Brief, May 30th
Federal Judge Rules Provi’s Antitrust Case Against Southern Glazer’s and RNDC Will Proceed: Today, a federal judge ruled the antitrust complaint filed by Provi, the largest online marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry, against the nation’s two largest wine and spirits distributors, Southern Glazer’s Wines and Spirits (Southern) and Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), will move forward as the court denied a Motion to Dismiss “in its entirety” filed by the defendants...
Johnson Brothers Expands Relationship with Copper Cane
St. Paul, Minn. December 20, 2023 Johnson Brothers, family-owned and operated since 1953, is pleased to announce that it is expanding distribution of
Afternoon Brief, December 18th
British Man Accused of Swindling Nearly $100 Million in Wine Fraud Case Pleads Not Guilty : A British man accused of allegedly defrauding investors of nearly $100 million through a Ponzi-like scheme involving nonexistent luxury wines pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court on Saturday...