The Value of Experience by Steve Fredricks Over the past five decades, we have experienced and recorded numerous market cycles, enabling us to guide our clients in navigating fluctuating conditions with effective strategies. With today's challenging marketplace, the value of our experience is...

In many ways, the long-term visibility in the wine industry is cloudy at the moment. Retail sales trends are declining and difficult to interpret due to the upheaval of sales channels in recent years, increasing costs and unreliability of sourcing dry goods, many businesses are bracing for the...

Decision-making on the sourcing of bulk wine and grapes continues to get more complex and difficult. April frosts in the Lodi/Delta, and in other regions of California to a lesser extent, added another challenging variable to the year. As of now, it appears the reduction in supply due to the frost...

by Steve Fredricks We are now well past a relatively uneventful and smaller harvest, particularly in the North Coast, mask mandates have been lifted in most areas, and on-premise sales continue to rebound. Overall, the industry seems to be a taking a collective deep breath to assess the current...

by Steve Fredricks Excess Markets, Long-Term As we have been reporting for some time, the current excess market cycle had already slowed the bulk wine and grape markets well before the shelter-in-place orders. This time last year, most of the larger companies were in an oversupply position causing...