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The Value of Experience by Steve Fredricks  Over the past five decades, we have experienced and recorded numerous market cycles, enabling us to guide our clients in navigating fluctuating conditions with effective strategies. With today's challenging marketplace, the value of our experience is particularly crucial.  As we mark our 50 years in business, we remain steadfast in delivering the most precise and timely market information on bulk wine and grapes supply and demand. We draw from extensive active listings, recent deals, and years of navigating the complexities and emotions of market cycles to help you make informed decisions.  While this season may continue to be a slow market, we encourage you to adopt a realistic approach and make tough decisions on supply, so you are ready to capitalize on opportunities as they arise.  In this newsletter, we provide in-depth analysis on the bulk wine and grape markets for key varieties and regions. Our coverage include

Last January’s California Report stated: “Probably the biggest question mark over the wine industry in 2022 is: How high will inflation go and if/when will it have an impact on consumer confidence?” The fact that, 12 months on, there are still no definitive answers to these questions highlights what a difficult year 2022 was to read, as the upside of a return to some normality post-pandemic clashed with the downsides of the pandemic’s considerable economic hangover and the global impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.  Messy and sometimes contradictory data injected further wariness into bulk wine and grape markets struggling to gain forward visibility, the former especially. Outside the perennially in-demand appellations, buyers were pricesensitive as input costs rose and preferred to move forward conservatively (wary of ending up with more supply than needed if consumer demand pulled back) while considering the full array of sourcing choices (wary of supp

This year, more than normal, August and the start of September felt like a holding period while the Northern Hemisphere harvests commenced and their likely respective sizes are assessed. The slowness of the bulk market in many countries – persisting for 2-3 months, brought about by the inflationary picture in key markets, perhaps too a lag in the shipping of already-contracted volumes – suggested only crops significantly down from their averages would stimulate activity. We have seen something of that in California, where an already light crop was hit by a week of extreme temperatures at the start of September.  Europe, however, has remained largely unmoved, as the crops in France, Spain and Italy appear to be coming in below their averages but not significantly so. Red wine carryover is large in Europe and across the world. Whites are in healthier supplydemand balance, and the Languedoc’s bulk campaign for the white varietals kicked off early and quickly as many

As I wrote in our last WIN newsletter entry, we’ve received many wonderfully affirming comments from designers with whom I, and my team at Global Package, have worked over the years. This time I’d like to feature Tina Carpenter, founder and principal of Carpenter Creative. Here are some of Tina’s thoughts, in her own words:        “I met Erica when I moved with my husband, who is a winemaker, from Chicago, Illinois to Napa over 20 years ago. She was working with Saver Glass at the time and I had just started with Colonna Farrell Design. While I was mostly responsible for timelines and logistics, I watched her unrelenting attention to detail at every step of the process.             “Since starting my own design studio, Carpenter Creative, in 2002, Erica and I have worked together on a dozen or so projects. One project, which is still underway, has been one of the most complex I’ve ever worked on, with

The bulk market globally can be characterised as slow, even for what is a traditionally slow time of year when the Northern Hemisphere summer holidays are is in full swing. As well as there being few buyers, some already-acquired wine is being put back on the market by those who no longer need it; these wines are sometimes picked up quickly by an alternative buyer, sometimes not. The reappearance of inventory is potentially symptomatic of a range of factors – problematic shipping; dry goods such as bottles being in short supply and/or high in price; a real or projected slowdown in consumer sales as annual inflation rates remain high.  The inflation rate in the US fell in July, from 9.1% to 8.5%, as a decline in fuel prices offset a continued rise in grocery prices. Hopefully this a sign of inflation starting to cool, but in many other markets fuel prices and energy bills are projected to continue rising for the rest of the year. In the UK, the Bank of England expects inflati