Let’s be honest: There’s a certain magic to pouring wine in your own tasting room—the clink of glasses, the sunlight through the vines, the laughter echoing off the barrel room walls. But what if you could bottle that magic and uncork it anywhere in the world? Today’s top-performing wineries aren’t just waiting for guests to walk through their doors. They’re packing their corkscrews and passports, finding their biggest fans where they live, work, and play—from the next city over to the far side of the globe. Welcome to the golden age of wine roadshows—and, now, globetrotting wine adventures! Why Travel? Because Wine Is About Connection Wine is the ultimate connector. It brings people together and creates memories, whether it’s a backyard BBQ in Austin or a sunset dinner on the Amalfi Coast. Your most devoted club members and best customers crave those connections—and they’re hungry (and thirsty) for experiences that go b

Mitroff Consulting & Associates is pleased to announce the completion of the search for the CEO for our Client, Somerston Estate. Judd Wallenbrock accepted the position from an outstanding pool of candidates. Judd has a strong background in senior level executive roles for: Robert Mondavi, De Loach Vineyards, Michel-Schlumberger, Jessup Cellars, C. Mondavi & Family, and other well-known wineries. It was a pleasure working with Somerston and Judd on such an exciting opportunity. Judd’s leadership abilities make him well positioned to continue the success of the Somerston Estate and Priest Ranch wines.

Please join OrderPort for a complimentary Learn Event on Hiring and Retaining Talent.  It’s the time of the Great Resignation and the Quietly Quitting. Hiring good people and keeping them is harder than ever. If you can even find the right people, the cost of hiring and training is extremely high, so high turn-over is not what we want either. During this Learn Event we’ll take a deep dive into recruiting, onboarding, compensating, and training staff.  Tuesday, February 28th @ 10:00 am PST Presented by Liz Mercer GM, Judd’s Hill Winery & MicroCrush WISE Coach and Content Developer 

WINnovation Award Winner: RedChirp—Connecting Wine Brands with the Modern Consumer

The wine industry is constantly faced new trends, challenges, and the pressure to stay ahead of the competition. With that, comes the opportunity to innovate.  Each year Wine Industry Advisor recognizes five wine industry innovators—not just for their impressive ingenuity or technical advances—but because of how their product and/or service betters the North American wine […]

Text marketing platform RedChirp helps family winery Judd’s Hill engage prospects and customers to boost sales and loyalty. Text messaging delivers unrivaled immediacy, engagement, scalability, and results. Family-owned Judd’s Hill Winery has been making wine in Napa Valley for two generations, beginning with the release of its first Cabernet Sauvignon in 1989. To stay true to their personal, hands-on approach to winemaking, the Finkelstein family limits production to no more than 3,000 cases annually. Earning new and repeat customers in the competitive winemaking industry isn’t easy, especially when you’re a smaller winery with just a handful of people handling your sales and marketing efforts. Every investment has to deliver fast results without adding workload. Which is why Judd’s Hill Winery embraced text messaging platform RedChirp to help create and close more sales opportunities while also improving their customer loyalty and engagement. RedChirp&rs

Experts Answer—How Can the Wine Industry Engage ‘Digital Natives?’

This Expert Q & A features Rosa Noble, hospitality and DTC Manager for Judd’s Hill Winery & MicroCrush, and Ed Feuchuk, general manager of Farm Collective Napa Valley, who will be speaking at this year’s WIN Expo, scheduled for December 2, 9 am to 4 pm, at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif. […]

Oct 19th @ 10am PST on Zoom No one answers their phones anymore. It’s harder than ever to get email past spam filters. But everyone reads and responds to their text messages. It’s not just for friends and family anymore; 89% of consumers want to text with businesses too. We’ll cover the legalities to watch out for and share practical examples of how wineries like Hess Persson, Judd’s Hill, and others are using text messaging to connect with customers, save hours previously wasted on phone tag, and sell more wine.  Upgrade your customer experience by making it easier to connect with your customers via text through RedChirp's Commerce7 integration. Learn how the integration between RedChirp and Commerce7 saves time, reduces operational friction, and makes it easier to serve your customers as an effective team.  Register Now "We loved RedChirp even before the Commerce7 integration, but now we're even more excited because we can access t

How Judd’s Hill Wrangles its Micro Crush Clients and Drives Efficiency with Real-Time Technology Susie Dineen manages the cellar for over 150 winemakers at Judd’s Hill Micro Crush in Napa Valley. Hers is not an easy task, especially since most of her clients make a single barrel of wine at a time. She turned to the experts at Process2Wine for a software solution to help her manage this challenging cellar. Process2Wine cloud-based software coordinates and improves the entire winemaking process from planting the vineyard to managing the cellar inventory to shipping the bottles. The technology is designed to create efficiencies with real-time data and predictive recommendations. Anytime, anywhere access, even without an internet connection, makes the tool effective in or out of the cellar. “We are one of Process2Wine’s more complex clients,” says Dineen. “When they took us on, they didn’t realize what a crazy train it was. But their customer

Mondavi’s Judd Wallenbrock Predicts a Premium Year in 2021: It’s apparent in speaking with Judd Wallenbrock, CEO of C. Mondavi & Family (parent company to Charles Krug), that he is highly optimistic about the future of wine in 2021... The post Afternoon Brief, January 4th appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2021/01/04/afternoon-brief-1771?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=afternoon-brief-1771 Published Date:Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:12:13 +0000 

It’s apparent in speaking with Judd Wallenbrock, CEO of C. Mondavi & Family (parent company to Charles Krug), that he is highly optimistic about the future of wine in 2021... The post Mondavi’s Judd Wallenbrock Predicts a Premium Year in 2021 appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2021/01/04/judd-wallenbrock-predicts-premium-2021?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judd-wallenbrock-predicts-premium-2021 Published Date:Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:00:48 +0000