Afternoon Brief, June 25
TUESDAY, JUNE 25 TRENDING STORY Are Things Getting Better for the Wine Industry? SVB Says Yes — and No The news is mixed in Silicon Valley Bank’s 2024 Direct-to-Consumer […]
Afternoon Brief, June 7th
Bars and Nightclubs Beware! The Drug Testing Regime Starts on July 1st and You Must Be Ready: Starting July 1, 2024, holders of a Type 48 (bars and nightclubs that do not sell food) license issued by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) must be able to provide drug testing devices to customers, as stated in Business and Professions Code § 25624...
Afternoon Brief, June 3rd
Grim Reports Have the Wine Industry in Knots. But Should We Just Calm Down?: Lately, conversations within the wine industry have been punctuated with doom and gloom. Sales are erratic, the climate is unpredictable, overproduction is rampant and drinkers are hesitant to spend...
Napa Valley Auction Weekend Benefits Youth Mental Health
6/2/2024 – Saint Helena, CA – The annual Collective Napa Valley Auction Weekend, held May 31 to June 1 this year, once again demonstrated the Napa Valley wine industry’s commitment to […]
Bidding Now Open for Collective Napa Valley Barrel and Live Lots
5/28/2024 – Saint Helena, CA – Bidding has begun on barrel and live lots in the Collective Napa Valley Auction Weekend. The in-person auction experience is sold out. Wine enthusiasts can […]
Afternoon Brief, May 28th
US Wine Industry Fights Back with New Marketing Campaigns: It might feel like it's all gloom and doom in the wine industry right now, but two separate groups are creating positive energy around wine. Felicity Carter reports...
Afternoon Brief, February 26th
Napa Wine Auction Prices Plummet: Tumbling prices at a Napa trade auction are a sobering sign for the US wine industry...
Energy and Paddles High at Premiere Napa Valley 2024
2/24/2024 – Saint Helena, CA – The Napa Valley wine industry welcomed many longtime bidders and newcomers at Saturday’s live auction. As guests arrived, the bond between winemakers, trade partners and […]
Afternoon Brief: Abrupt Closure of San Francisco Wine Startup Leaves Customers with Thousands of Bottles Stuck in ?CloudCellar?
The offer was enticing: Pay $25 for a bottle of wine, and you might get upgraded to a bottle worth $100 or more. Better yet, the San Francisco tech company Underground Cellar promised: It would store your wine purchases up to 500 bottles for free in a CloudCellar, then ship them to you whenever you wanted...
Masseto Sets a New Sale Record
A sale of wines released directly from the estates cellarssurpasses the high estimate for a grand total of 376.625/$409,052. A bottle of the 2010