March, 25, 2012 Club W Hits $1 Million In Annualized Revenue In 12 Weeks

(Techcrunch) - If you love old Vitamin W as much as I do, you’ll be pleased to note that folks who are disrupting the staid old wine industry are doing well. Case in point: Club W just announced they’re on track to sell $1 million worth of wine this year, based on current annualized revenue. ...

March, 25, 2012 iWineMaker iPhone app is launched to assist home and professional wine makers

(QRCodepress) - iWineMaker, a new iPhone app, is now available at the iTunes Store to provide home and professional winemakers of conventional and organic wines with additional assistance with their calculations. This application provides these winemakers with a powerful mobile tool that will hel...

March, 25, 2012 Can wine become an American habit? (Fortune, 1934)

(CNNMoney) - Can wine become a national habit? Several people, not altogether disinterestedly, have set out to make it one. But even in the world's greatest grape-growing country, there are many obstacles. Fine sleet beat a painful tattoo against the windows of the Manhattan apartment in which Mr. P...

March, 24, 2012 Alcohol Marketers are Turning to Social Media

(Thenextweb) - Under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission, alcohol advertising has become a legal minefield. Backed by statistical analysis correlating the influence of different mediums on different age groups, television spots and print advertisements are subject to a breadth of restrictions ...

March, 24, 2012 Vinitaly International 2012: A Special Focus on the U.S. and Chinese Markets

(PRWEB) - In 2011, the Italian wine industry continued to lead the Agri-Food sector abroad, with exports accounting for over 4 billion euros. In total, more than 10 billion euros of turnover and an increase of 13% in exports since 2010. Despite the crisis, the Italian wine industry continues to do t...

March, 24, 2012 Greek winemakers keep glass half full

(IOL) - At a first glance, the crowded tables outside Greece's restaurants might make you wonder about the economic crisis, but a closer look will reveal that customers are opting to forgo fine bottled wine for cheap tipple to save a bit of cash. The country's debt crisis means many Greeks can no...

March, 24, 2012 Liquid Economic Indicators: The Wine Debacle

With the European Union going into recession, possibly, with the US growing, but not enough, with China booming, or crashing, and with Japan languishing, the worldwide economic picture is confusing. Debt crises have been swept under the rug by voluminous money-printing, directly or indirectly, steri...

March, 24, 2012 US: Making the Mondavi Legacy New Again

(WSJ) - Fitzgerald's remark about there being no second acts in American lives is so good, one almost hates to cite counter examples, but Robert Mondavi founded the winery that made him famous at the age of 53, after a successful career at Charles Krug. His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert ...