We are certainly living in different times—times that are difficult to predict and even harder to plan for. Challenges originating far outside our professional world are quickly impacting our day-to-day operations and, ultimately, your business. Throughout 2026, suppliers across the industry have...
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Expand Your Wine Brand with Rack & Riddle’s Canning & Bottling Solutions Full-Service Canning & Bottling Options At Rack & Riddle, we’re here to help bring your wine brands to life with our canning and bottling options for both sparkling and still wines. Whether you’re scaling up or just starting...
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The Political Tug-of-War The title of this post reflects the actions the Surgeon General is promoting. It's part of a long-term, well-thought-out, and well-funded campaign against consuming alcohol - any amount of alcohol. The campaign runs circles around anyone wanting to point out the other...
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In our regular market update conversations with our global bulk brokerage partners, the concerns over the lack of consumer demand for value wine continues to increase in each region. The decreasing consumer sales dynamic has led to slow bulk wine markets for larger volumes of value wine regardless...
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As we continue to celebrate our 50th anniversary, we have been looking back at the history of the Turrentine Market Update Newsletter for previous analyses that also could apply today. Below is from a 2001 Newsletter that we feel resonates with the current conditions: A thousand brands have a...
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Preserving the Montado: A Commitment to Biodiversity and Culture On this International Day of Forests, we celebrate the Montado, one of the world's most precious and biodiverse ecosystems. This unique landscape, found in southern Portugal and other Mediterranean regions, showcases a harmonious...
Read MoreAfternoon Brief, April 29th

Labor Department Sets Sweeping New H-2A Foreign Guestworker Rule: The U.S. Department of Labor has adopted a new rule it said will protect foreign seasonal farmworkers from being abused, imposing sweeping regulations the head of an agricultural employers association called "offensive."...
Afternoon Brief, March 19th

Should SVB Continue to Produce the Annual DtC Report?: Silicon Valley Bank goes to great lengths and costs to provide this report to the industry gratis. Still, it's a partnership with you: Without survey responses, they can't produce this industry resource...


