Here’s what your wine shop customers might be reading this week, and what you can turn them on to. [level-members] Wine Spectator for 6/15/15 landed on our doorstep this week. Francis Ford Coppola makes the cover for his work to “resurrect a legendary wine.” Also on tap: top wines of South Africa, visiting Napa Valley, […]
Archive for May, 2015
Wine Shop Conversation Starters – 5/14/
May 14th, 2015Beacon Technology for Wine Sho
May 13th, 2015Like it or not, beacon technology is coming to retail. In fact, it’s already here for larger retailers, so it’s a matter of time before it trickles down to Main Street retailers like us. Here’s what you need to know. [level-members] First, it’s easier to explain what beacon technology does than what it is. Beacons […]
Wine Shop Delivery and Other Competitive Advantag
May 12th, 2015We’ve written in the past about Drizly and other businesses that are beginning to systematize on-demand delivery in local markets. If you’re not offering delivery, you should reconsider. [level-members] Drizly’s most recent expansion is into the Minneapolis twin-cities area. This is their 13th metropolitan region, so they’re not just sticking to the biggest of the […]
Domestic Wines Gain Ground That Imports are Losi
May 11th, 2015With harvests on the rise, particularly in California, US domestic wine is growing at the expense of imports, but that trend is not consistent across the industry. [level-members] Shanken News Daily reported that imports declined by nearly 6%, following the trend over most of the last half decade. (The data is from Impact Databank.) Still, […]
Food & Wine Pairings: Steak and Anything But Cabern
May 8th, 2015Since we were talking about steakhouses that are breaking with wine list traditions yesterday, we thought we’d do the same today for folks who might be dining at home. [level-members] For clients looking for great value, reds from Portugal’s Doura can be a nice alternative to pricey Napa cabernets. Syrah from California’s central coast fit […]
What Your Wine Shop Customers Are Reading – 5/7/
May 7th, 2015Should you be crushing your own ice? Can you become a wine expert in 30 minutes? And must you drink a giant cabernet with that big juicy steak? [level-members] Bon Appetit for May 2015 is the travel issue. About the only notable drinks-related content is a piece on crushing your own ice. OK, then. (And there’s […]
Brand Personality in Wine Shop Marketi
May 6th, 2015We’ve spoken in the past about carving out a niche for your shop with the goal of creating a personality or brand that insulates you from the brutality of competing on price and the painful reliance on location, location, location. [level-members] Not that price and location don’t matter, but if people only shop with you […]
Worth Reading for Wine Shop Owners: Retail Blo
May 5th, 2015We’re starting a new series today, which we’ll repeat monthly for the foreseeable future. In it, we will feature worthwhile blogs and other publications from around the web (and occasionally the print world) that are worth reading. We view our role as one of gathering the most valuable information available, we recognize that we can’t […]
Wine Industry News – Are Low-Alcohol Wines Really Bette
May 4th, 2015I’m also not usually a fan of the whole anti- high-alcohol wines rant; wines can be good or bad regardless of their alcohol content. Turns out I may be wrong, though. From the Yale Daily News we learn this: [level-members] Researchers at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language and Yale have discovered that […]
Unexpected Food & Wine Pairin
May 1st, 2015The NFL draft started yesterday, so it’s rather appropriate that I should be thinking of tailgating today. But NFL-style tailgating isn’t what I had in mind. I was thinking of early morning tailgating. [level-members] My daughter is rowing crew. The races are frequently very early in the morning. VERY early in the morning. And the […]