Five Lessons From The Business Of Fine Wine // Sweden’s Alcohol Monopoly Loses Legal Battle With E-Retailer

Sometimes the most valuable lessons come from unlikely places.

Sweden’s retailing monopoly on alcohol was dealt a legal blow with a Supreme Court ruling that may pave the way for foreign online retailers to sell beverages to the Nordic country.

This year’s State of the Industry report on the U.S. wine and spirits markets highlights how ready-to-drink cocktails and canned wine have benefited the categories.

Wine faces a threat it may not see coming around the corner. The unholy alliance of the trial lawyer bar and overzealous government bureaucrats threatens serious damage to the industry’s future. The good news is a lot of this can be defeated if the wine interest wakes up and decides it’s time to fight.

Press Release - Wine Future 2023 will explore threats to the industry from without and within, and potential solutions and mitigations.

Premiumisation was the buzz word of 2022, but the upward trajectory of the trend is slowing, as cost-of-living pressures take their toll.

Should the law be changed to enable the Postal Service to deliver alcohol? Learn the pros and cons and how this change could impact you.

View Paul Egan Dolan III's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

I never gave much thought to gender early in my career. I was grateful to walk along a path paved by so many remarkable women before me, whose vast contributions were instrumental in the shaping of the modern wine industry.

Wine growers are always nervous in spring. They feel the excitement of a new vintage as the vines bud, push shoots, flower and set their clusters to produce the year’s crop.

Around 10 years ago, prescribed burns were a rarity and often used for training purposes for firefighters in Sonoma Valley. How the Nuns Fire in 2017 caused forest management practices to evolve.

The spotted lanternfly, an exotic sap-feeding insect that damages crops and plants, has...

The project was presented during Enoforum Italia 2023. The main goal is to develop new vineyard management systems that can solve some of the most important problems of hillside viticulture in Emilia.

No/Low: The Australian federal government has awarded a grant of almost A$3m (£1.6m) designed to boost quality and innovation within the burgeoning market.

In the middle of the Grand River Valley, Ohio wine country is a hidden gem. Drive down the long driveway along the densely wooded perimeter of the Grand River and find a specialty winery.

Fine wine markets fell by 0.83% in June, according to the Cult Wines Global Index, as part of an ongoing correction in the wake of the extended rally that stretched from mid-2020 to the end of 2022.

The fine wine market in Q2 2023 report analyses all major Liv-ex indices and provides a brief summary of the market in the context of ongoing macro-trends.

We’ve compiled the data from over 450 shops in 2022 and one thing that continues to come up as an opportunity for the industry as a whole is capturing the Referral Source

“All too often, we as marketeers working in and with wine businesses don't do ourselves any favours. We don’t demonstrate the value marketing can bring.” Lulie Halstead follows up her debut article on The Buyer in which she questioned the role of marketing within the wine industry and why so much of it fails…