Afternoon Brief: Supreme Court Hands Wine Trade a Small Victory, but Trump Plots New Levies
The highest court in the US has ruled that sweeping import tariffs exceeded presidential authority, offering a brief reprieve for the global wine trade. The relief may be short-lived, however, as Donald Trump moves swiftly to impose fresh levies under a seldom-used 1974 trade law...
Afternoon Brief: Wine Market Council Tackles Domestic Wine Industry's Current Setbacks
This past April 2 at the 2025 Wine Market Council (WMC) Annual Research Conference and Members Meeting, held in the City of Napa, there were some illuminating discussions on the overall state of the American wine industry...
Afternoon Brief: Wine's Trumps Cheese in Tariff War
A US-France trade war next year seems likely, thanks to two recent events. One, you probably noticed: Donald Trump was elected US President. The other, you might not have...
Afternoon Brief: California Grapegrowers Race to Beat the Heat
Trucks full of wine grapes clogged roads all over northern California wine country this week as wineries raced to get their precious cargo into tanks before a brutal heatwave shriveled them to raisins...
Afternoon Brief, May 15th
Wine and Basketball: Brands Partner with the NBA and WNBA to Attract New Fans: Leveraging the decades-long link between basketball and wine to attract new consumers...
Prowine Singapore 2024: Platform for Industry Excellence
May 15th – ProWine Singapore 2024, the region’s leading trade fair for wines and spirits, concluded this year’s edition with a record-breaking 14,907 trade visitors, a significant increase of approximately […]
Afternoon Brief, May 7th
New Oklahoma Law Says Businesses No Longer Need to Check ID’s Before Serving Alcohol: Under the law, sellers can still be held responsible for selling or serving alcoholic beverages to a person under 21...
Afternoon Brief, April 23rd
Wine Industry Makes Sustainability Push with New Packaging Alliance: A new alliance of wine brands is launching a push for sustainable packaging solutions across the US wine industry...
Afternoon Brief, April 16th
Eleanor Coppola, Filmmaker Who Helped Rebuild Inglenook Winery's Legacy, Dies at 87: The artist, documentarian, author and vintner left her mark on Hollywood and Napa Valley...
Successful Third Staging of Prowine Mumbai
India moves into the focus of the wine and spirits industry December 11th - At the third staging of ProWine Mumbai in November 2023, 164 companies with