News and Press:
Miscellaneous quotes and facts
I spoke at the Petite Sirah conference at Foppiano Vineyards, on the topic of Petite Sirah supply and consumer perceptions. http://www.wine-blog.org/?p=156 This conference is organized annually by Foppiano and Diaz Communications for the P.S. I Love You trade organization, dedicated to educating trade and consumers about the unique qualities of Petite Sirah as a varietal. For more information, check http://www.psiloveyou.org/index.php . Incidentally, members have access to my charts and data from the conference.
Mary Baker at Dover Canyon always has interesting things to say about the wine business, so I'm pleased to be cited on her blog here: http://dovercanyon.typepad.com/dover_canyon/2007/06/make-benefit-gl.html
My comments in Wine Business Monthly on the new wave of 3L box business can be found here: http://www.winebusiness.com/ReferenceLibrary/webarticle.cfm?dataId=47589
Rich
Cartiere's Wine Market Report covered the release of CoreTrack #4, highlighting
the findings on global warming and consumer perceptions of Napa's "Old
Guard" vs. the top new cult wines. For more information check out www.winemarketreport.com.
Tom Wark's Wine Blog has some nice things to say about our Zinfandel research: http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2006/11/the_zinfandel_s.html
Cited by the Petite Sirah Advocacy Organization: http://www.psiloveyou.org/president.php
Zinfandel sales trends analyzed in Wine Business Monthly: http://www.winebusiness.com/ReferenceLibrary/webarticle.cfm?dataId=45727
http://www.restaurantnewsresource.com/article22576-Women_and_Wine__What_do_they_Really_Want__Statistical_Data_Defies__Pink_Marketing_.html
Restaurant News article about gender differences in wine drinking
http://www.zinfandel.org/about_zap/news/pr_fgr_0406.htm - fun
facts about Zinfandel from Full Glass Research
http://www.decanter.com/news/72611.html - Decanter article on
Wine Opinions survey on Parker and Spectator influence
Impact
of the Wine Industry in
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/02/01/b1.bz.wine.0201.p1.php?section=business
http://www.decanter.com/news/74672.html