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Wine tastings are an interesting phenomenon. As the winery rep behind the table at a trade tasting (where wineries and wine shops come to try and hopefully buy our wine), it is very serious work, talking about the wines and gathering lead information on each account to follow up on later. If the tasting is well attended, then time flies and I leave with a stack of business cards and a bunch of new contacts to follow up with.

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Things I Love/Hate about Wine Tastings

One wouldn’t know it from my latest rants, but there are some things about my job that I really enjoy. We have been working on a massive “un-labeling” project for the last month

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Something nice for a change

Let me start this off on a POSITIVE note, so that all my blogs don’t seem like insane industry rants.

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It Kills Me

Our Office here at the winery is comprised of all women—and 1 token male (my dad). There are

Sorry about all my distributor ranting lately—but I just get so frustrated sometimes with how this business works. I feel like as the little, family owned and operated supplier that we sometimes

In recent months, we have changed distributor partners in a number of states. The reasons are many, which I won’t get into.

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Just don’t lie

As any winery that does a majority of their business via the wholesale channel will tell you, business is tough. The number of wholesalers is shrinking due to consolidation while the number of wineries and brands continues to grow (there are over 6,000 wineries just in California now, did you know that?) The Clos LaChance brand has been growing continuously, however not as fast as we would like. The grapes are here, we have to pick them.

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The demise of our private label business?which leads to our kick ass sale this weekend

Last week, Blake Gray wrote a blog about exactly why Amazon.com pulled out completely of wine sales. It got me thinking about the long road that Amazon has gone through to come to this point. I first remember hearing about this well over a year ago….

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Amazon.com out of wine

Ugh, i just have to post this because it is so unbelievably frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, I love distributors

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Ranting