(Wines&Vines) - Each year, the Wine Industry Financial Symposium presents the results of a survey of wine industry executives conducted by Dr. Robert Smiley of the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management. Smiley shares the results of the study, completed with graduate research assistant Nicole Pedro, on Tuesday morning. Smiley and Pedro interviewed 24 executives—most of them winery leaders including Joseph Gallo of E. & J. Gallo and Jay Wright of Constellation Brands—but also a few others including Mel Dick of the major distributor Southern Wine & Spirits and William Deutsch of WJ Deutsch & Sons.