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  • California wine sales flat, revenues off 3.2%

    April 8th, 2010

    CALIFORNIA — Despite an economy in which some wineries’ revenues were off by double-digits last year, California winery shipments to U.S. markets were nearly unchanged in volume, according to industry analyst figures released today. Yet aggressive discounting of wines to maintain that volume resulted in revenue from those shipments dipping 3.2 percent to $17.9 billion.

  • Winery Insider launches

    March 29th, 2010

    SONOMA – The first members-only private sale company focusing exclusively on wine launched last week. Tony and Danielle Westfall formed Winery Insider, www.wineryinsider.com, to offer members access to hundreds of wines from around the world at 40 percent to 80 percent off retail prices.

  • eWinery expands as industry seeks more direct sales

    February 1st, 2010

    NAPA — Wine e-commerce software developer and provider eWinery Solutions is expanding its headquarters to accommodate a 60 percent growth in revenue and 120 more winery clients in the past year.

  • Winery group seeks ‘Sonoma Co.’ label law

    February 1st, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – The Sonoma County Vintners trade group on Jan. 20 started a campaign to get state legislation that would require labels mentioning any viticultural area within the county to also include “Sonoma County.”

  • Imports help overall wine sales; end of ’09 better; slow recovery seen

    January 27th, 2010

    SACRAMENTO — Large scale importation of bulk and bottled wine helped boost total U.S. shipments by an estimated 2.1 percent last year, but wineries heavily impacted by shifting consumer demand may have to wait until 2011 for significant market improvement, an expert said at a major industry symposium here this morning.

  • Marketing minefield for wineries

    January 18th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — The industry has been looking to consumer product promotional know-how from outside the business for fresh ideas, particularly as producers of higher-end wine look to move slow-selling inventory in an economy with high unemployment and trimmed expense accounts.

  • Napa e-tailer creating destination shop

    January 18th, 2010

    NAPA VALLEY — Al Jabarin, owner of early e-tailer CalWine, sees the future of both Internet and retail sales of fine wine in providing a unique destination experience, so for his planned move closer to downtown Napa this summer he brought in expertise in blending marketing and space design.

  • 2010 Trends: High-end wineries go direct to offset on-premise slump

    January 4th, 2010

    NORTH COAST — North Coast makers of luxury wines are seeing some preliminary indications of growth in retail sales during the year-end holidays of a percentage point or two from the post-crash shopping slump of late 2008.

  • 2009 year of economy, energy

    January 4th, 2010

    It was a year dominated by a struggling economy that touched virtually everyone.

  • Wine: A little holiday bounce for wine sales; threshold for TCA lowered

    February 23rd, 2009

    Wine and spirits sales in grocery, drug and liquor stores enjoyed a “holiday bounce” in the four weeks ending Jan. 10, according to new figures from The Nielsen Co.

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