Archive for the 'Wine Sales' Category
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The Liquor Barn chain yesterday reversed itself and announced that it will resume buying products from state winemakers who advocate allowing wine sales at grocery stores.
Roger Leasor, president of Liquor Barn, which has three stores each in Louisville and Lexington, had said Tuesday that he would no longer buy from wineries that supported the grocers’ [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Washington, September 25 : The sales of Palin Syrah, a 100 percent organic wine from Chile, have dramatically plummeted in a San Francisco wine bar ever since Republican presidential hopeful John McCain named Sarah Palin to be his running mate.
Celine Guillou, a co-owner of the Yield Wine Bar, says that the wine used to be [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O), the largest global online retailer, plans to start selling U.S.-produced wine on its website within the United States by early October, wine industry insiders said on Wednesday.
Napa Valley Vintners, a nonprofit group representing 315 vintners in the famous California wine-producing region, has already begun to set up workshops for [...]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
German Wines a Particular Favorite Among U.S. Hospitality & Beverage Professionals and Americans Under 40
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — According to a recent survey by Wine Opinions, a research provider to the U.S. wine industry, Americans across multiple demographics frequently purchase and recommend German wines. The wines are particularly popular among wine importers and [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - They’re a nation of beer and whisky drinkers, but wine is fast becoming the tipple of choice for India’s growing ranks of young, affluent professionals who are quaffing down vintages and boosting the local industry.
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Bumper season boosts wine production
New Zealand’s wine industry is looking forward to increased sales, after a bumper season produced a surge in grape production this year. Â Â New Zealand Winegrowers chief Philip Gregan said nature had delivered a bounty in 2008, with 285,000 tonnes of grapes harvested, up 39% on last year. Â Â Gregan said [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Chester, PA - May 15, 2008 — Kasey Carpenter is known as “The Wine Mogul,” and he deals in the business of wine. There’s no shortage of wine fans in the U.S. (in fact, that number is growing every day), but few people really dig into the dollars and cents of how vino is produced. [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation Tuesday to allow Sunday beer sales at Gwinnett County’s new baseball stadium and to let Georgians buy wine over the Internet.
Perdue, who has helped kill legislation allowing Sunday package store sales of alcohol, also signed a measure letting limo companies sell alcohol.
Perdue signed the liquor bills, along with dozens [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The US wine market soared to an estimated $30bn (£15bn) in 2007, as consumption of premium wine continued to grow despite the faltering economy.
Over 300m nine-litre cases of domestic and imported wine were shipped into the US in 2007, a rise of 4% over 2006, according to the Gomberg-Fredrikson Report. At the same time, the [...]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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. [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
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 [...]
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