Heavy hitters in the wine and marketing game come together in a new newsletter from Wine Marketer.
Chester, PA. March 28, 2008 – WineMarketer.com has recently started a newsletter that focuses on wine Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, and conventional Marketing. Industry professionals from both the wine and marketing worlds have signed on to be [...]

Consumer demand drives U.S. direct wine sales to record levels as more wineries than ever compete in a crowded market.
Windsor, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2008 - U.S. consumer direct wine sales reached record levels in 2007, according to the latest research results published today by wine marketing advisors, VinterActive LLC.
Based on their annual VinQuestâ„¢ survey [...]

PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - Burgundy producers have hiked their prices for the U.S. market by 10 to 20 percent over the past weeks due to the continued decline of the dollar, the president of the Burgundy wine association said on Thursday.
“We have been absorbing the dollar decline for the past few years. The producers [...]

Global Wine Consumption to Exceed 26.2 Billion Liters by 2010, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
The global wine market is currently witnessing steady consumption growth across most markets and wine sectors. Consumption in the global wine market is projected to exceed 26.2 billion liters by the year 2010, growing at a compounded [...]

FOSS has released OenoFoss, a new analyser providing instant quality control of grapes and wine.
The simple-to-use OenoFoss analyser meets a growing demand from wine producers for rapid and easy-to-obtain information in support of decisions such as when to pick grapes, how to control fermentation or when to bottle.
It will never replace human judgement, but now [...]

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered with the wreckage of previous failures.
Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer, whom it says will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new product selection” for its site. [...]

NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ — The continuing consumer interest in cocktails, super-premium spirits, fine wine and imported beer, and the apparent lack of price resistance among customers, pushed on-premise beverage alcohol sales to a modern high in 2006.
This and other insights about the way beer, wine, spirits and cocktails are sold and marketed in [...]

Visionaries from Mendocino County are looking to break down the walls between fine wine and craft beer in wine country. Don Barkley, a legend in U.S. craft brewing, left his post as master brewer at Ukiah-based Mendocino Brewing Co. in November and is preparing the inaugural releases this spring from a rare winery-brewery in south [...]

Wine 2.0: East meets West with reasonable Rieslings 
By Edward Deitch
Wine columnist
TODAY
It says something about the wine world in 2008 when that bottle you’re pouring tonight is based on the following: the owner of the winery is a California wine icon; the company is based in Portland, Oregon; most of the grapes are grown in southeastern Washington [...]

ST. HELENA, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ — SVB Silicon Valley Bank, a leading provider of commercial banking services to the premium wine industry, announced a series of invitation-only events to help its wine clients address their marketing and branding concerns. The series of events entitled, “A Conversation With … ,” will allow select SVB clients [...]

Chester, PA – ClassicWines.com has taken a tough stand against its largest client and removed all advertising for Wine.com from its popular online guide. The move is in response to Wine.com’s recent attempts to act as an independent policing body and subsequently limit competition in the burgeoning market of Internet wine sales.
“It is far easier [...]

The more wine costs, the more people enjoy it, regardless of how it tastes, a study by California researchers has found.
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology found that because people expect wines that cost more to be of higher quality, they trick themselves into believing the wines [...]

Constellation Wines U.S., a unit of giant Constellation Brands Inc., disclosed plans Tuesday to restructure by March 1, in part to integrate wineries recently acquired from Fortune Brands.
Many of its new and established wineries are located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Constellation (NYSE: STZ), the nation’s largest wine producer, completed its $885 million acquisition of [...]

Fine wine has beaten the FTSE 100 this year in investment terms as the value of bottles from Bordeaux clocked up gains of more than 90 per cent in the past 12 months.
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