Why branding could be behind falling wine consumption // US wine sales continue to decline

Could the lack of a branded approach to wine be behind falling consumption globally?

The annual Silicon Valley Bank's wine industry report reveals "near 0% value growth" and warns that "flash sales" and "increased discounts" will become more commonplace in the US.

There was a flurry of activity in California wine’s M&A sector to close out 2023, with prominent labels like Daou, Sonoma-Cutrer, and Rombauer changing hands in the second half of the year.

Wine consumers are getting older because the younger generations just don't like how it tastes.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, today released its 2024 State of the US Wine Industry Report.

Seth Kaufman, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented “The complexity of our business has resulted in a disproportionately high-cost base. To drive margin improvement and generate cash we need to simplify beyond our product offerings and fundamentally reconstruct our business model.

Yesterday, Wednesday 17 January, Ezio Rivella, one of Italy’s most famous consultant oenologists, passed away in Rome. He was 91 years old.

Terry Casteel, Co-Founder of Bethel Heights Vineyard, and a long-time leader in the Oregon wine industry, passed away on November 30, 2023.

For decades, the Venn Diagram intersection of the Latinx and the wine communities happened solely in the vineyard.

Bianco earlier served as executive director of Rogue Valley Vintners Association (RVVA). Southern Oregon's RVVA includes Bear Creek, Rogue, Applegate, and Illinois valleys, and Applegate Valley AVA. 

‘High quality non-alcoholic wine depends on two factors – high-quality grapes and a process to delicately remove the alcohol," stated Duncan Schouler,…

Making non-alcoholic wines is no easy feat, so how do wine producers go about crafting NA wines, and are we overthinking them?

A longtime proponent of taxes on beer and wine is now in charge of a state task force studying alcohol addiction and the cost to the state.

Shipping alcohol direct to consumers would undermine checks and balances that keep kids and communities safe, writes liquor retailer.

Here are the three major takeaways from Silicon Valley Bank's 2024 State of the U.S. Wine Industry report.

Across 21 licensed premises in England, removing the largest individual serving size of wine from the menu reduced the volume of wine sold, according to a new study publishing January 18th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Theresa Marteau of the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues.

Troubled California wine group Vintage Wine Estates is looking to offload certain assets and pare back its portfolio to focus on a smaller core of brands as it looks to stage a turnaround.

Foot traffic around the wine maker’s key US vineyards was mixed in December, according to the broker.