Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2025: Heidi Bridenhagen — Opening Doors for Women in Wine
By Laura Ness Wisconsin-born Heidi Bridenhagens already distinguished wine career had its genesis in a happy confluence of circumstance. While growing
Afternoon Brief, March 19th
Should SVB Continue to Produce the Annual DtC Report?: Silicon Valley Bank goes to great lengths and costs to provide this report to the industry gratis. Still, it's a partnership with you: Without survey responses, they can't produce this industry resource...
Afternoon Brief, July 26th
Breakthru Beverage Founder Rocky Wirtz Dies: Rocky Wirtz, co-chairman and founder of US distributor Breakthru Beverage Group and owner of ice hockey team Chicago Blackhawks, has died at the age of 70...
Afternoon Brief, January 20th
DTC Symposium Recap: Engaging the Future: The 2023 Direct to Consumer Wine Symposium, which took place Jan. 18-19, was a forward looking affair featuring panel discussions and data presentations focused on future opportunities for the wine industry — and, of course, DTC, in particular...
Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2023: Steve Myers — Working Toward Gender Equity in the Wine Industry
By Laurie Wachter Steve Myers radiates creative energy in a way any artist would recognize. It’s an energy that connects disparate ideas and turns them into tangible solutions; that […]