Showing posts with label Trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trends. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Who Drinks Organic Wine?

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Organic wines have received a lot of media attention. But who is drinking organic wine? The previous blog post defines what organic wine is...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Tasting Fees: Many Wineries Are Getting It

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Tasting room fees have doubled since 2012. Tasting room traffic is way down. Coincidence?
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Premium Canned Wine

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Wine in cans started with a sweet, fruity, fizzy beverage in a can with a cute, colorful label on the outside. It's growing up and becom...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Is Overripe Over?

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By overripe, I mean the soft, lush, blockbuster fruity wines of California. By questioning if they are finished as a style, I mean they aren...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The Wine Sub-Culture

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Wine same customs have been around for many generations, and it seems almost impossible to change any of them. It's not all necessarily ...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

If We Lose Wineries During the Downturn

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California's wine industry experienced explosive growth in the 2010-2020 timeframe, adding roughly 1,500 wineries between 2010 and 2020 ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The Coming of Enhanced Wine Tourism

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Wine tourism has always meant visiting wineries, tasting wines, maybe buying, and moving on. Sometimes there might be a look at the wine pro...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Growth of White Wine

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White wines are in the midst of a boom cycle as U.S.sales surpassed red wines in 2024. That same year global white wine sales were up 3% whi...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

A Visual Look at the Wine Market

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A look at the wine market in a few graphs. Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It? Rod Stewart, 1971.
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Could This Be a Big Reason Why Wine Sales are Down?

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You've heard that wine sales are looking gloomy, and you've probably heard different reasons why. Younger consumers don't think ...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Phases of Wine Sales Going in the Crapper

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There are five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. So far with the wine business facing a downturn I've ...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Helping the Wine Industry

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  Wine consumption is down , and most are citing the cause is the belief that alcohol is bad for you in any quantity. The wine industry is s...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Another Reason the Wine Industry is in Trouble

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There are fewer people drinking, people drinking less, mostly for health reasons. Consumers have other options like craft beer and hard selt...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Is Wine Uncool?

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  There's plenty of talk as to why wine sales and wine consumption have tanked. U.S. drinking is way down, with a record low percentage ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Unsold Grapes, Vines Pulled Out

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It was a tough year for grape growers. Not just a cyclical "normal" tough year, but really tough. The following is taken from an ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Wine Trends By Decade

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There have been many  American wine trends over the years. It's not as though wine fashion was invented with that organic non-alcoholic ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

The Good Old Days of Wineries' Worries

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Wineries and the grape growers are worried. Yes, many small businesses have things to worry about. Grape growers are farmers so are always w...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Interesting Wine Trends

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 Below are a few graphs on trends in wine. The first three are from the American Assoc. of Wine Economists, a world-wide organization based...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Great Grape Migration

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As temperatures warm, vineyards will have to move. Premium grapes are very susceptible to temperature changes, as each variety operates in a...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The Small 2024 Calif Grape Crush

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Per the U.S. Dept of Agriculture ( USDA ), the 2024 California wine grape crush was the smallest in 25 years. Total crush size was 2.844 mil...