The New Rules of Wine Importing // Reyes Closes 11-Market Deal With RNDC, Dramatically Increasing Wine And Spirits Footprint

Wine importers are adapting to volatility with sharper logistics, closer partnerships, and tighter cash management.

Reyes Beverage Group has closed its previously announced acquisition of 11 markets from RNDC for an undisclosed sum. Shanken News Daily • M. Shanken Communications, Inc.

Ancient shipwreck off Italy with over 300 amphorae offers new clues about Mediterranean trade and Magna Graecia wine networks.

Demand is growing among regular wine drinkers for alternative wines – including natural, organic and sustainable products – but challenges include limited choice, negative value perceptions and a lack of engagement with older consumers.

The U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&A) business is yet another casualty of the worst wine slump in this country in 30 years.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is responding after invasive glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) insects were found on shipments of grapevines sold at select Costco locations in California between April 21 and May 21.

Another hectic week in the wine world sees debt woes, deregulation fallout and dodgy wines bedevilling the industry.

Jeroboams boss Matt Tipping remains “quietly optimistic” of hitting £40m in retail sales during the current, despite the cumulative impact – and speed – of the cost increases facing the industry, which will take an industry-wide response. 

Since Covid-19 took over the world in 2020, workplace culture, and in-office expectations, haven’t been the same.

I've spent more than three decades in the wine business, and one thing I've learned is that wine doesn't just compete against other wines.

The 2026 State of the U.S. Wine Industry report by Silicon Valley Bank says, “The older, wine-focused cohort is aging out, and younger adults aren’t replacing them at the same rate.”

From "harmful use" to "no safe level" in a decade: Tom Bruce-Gardyne looks at how the language of alcohol policy has shifted.

Three glasses of wine. Three lost days. One very telling podcast. Benjamin Jack on the wellness cult and the war on alcohol.

Oakville’s Patrick Foley Center for Grape Growing & Farmworker Education is expected to open in late 2027.

Commonwealth Wine School is bringing wine certification to the vineyard with the launch of WSET in the Vineyard..

As our Sam Cole-Johnson and 216 others prepare to take the MW exams next week, we look back at the very first exam, set in 1953.

After several sleepless nights at the end of March, when temperatures plummeted to -5°C, vineyards in Chablis are now showing encouraging signs.

The growing number of quality still wines from the famous chalky-white marine soils of Jerez are all but confirmed to achieve DO status, pending final approval from the EU.

The story of Opus One began in of the most remote islands in the world.

There are three main factors when it comes to valuing a fine wine.