Wine Industry
topic on 1 show · 7 statements across 3 episodes
7 statements about Wine Industry, every show
Expanding the Wine Market Requires Inexpensive Bridge Products From Beer
“You know, barefoot is a bridge between beer and wine, and if we want to increase the size of the wine industry, we have to have inexpensive, easy drinking wine so that people's first experience with wine will be a good one. And they're not going to get introdu…”
Direct-to-consumer club shipping allowed for wine remains illegal for spirits
“I could be a winery in Napa and have a, you know, a club in which I've got thousands and thousands of people that get wine. That's not legal for spirits.”
Robin McBride says the McBride Sisters brand is not for sale
“Our personal name is not for sale, so that's a little tricky, but also the brands that we create you know, each of those Brands has a very powerful message behind them, and like Andrea said, that don't belong to us necessarily. We see ourselves as the stewards…”
Andréa McBride John argues the wine industry historically ignored Black consumers
“And most importantly, I think, unfortunately, the wine industry has just really ignored black people when it comes to wine.”
Corporate partnerships proved too politically constrained to drive wine industry diversity
“If we were going to bridge this gender gap that happens in the wine industry, and Make the wine industry more inclusive, then we had to do that by ourselves. Because politically, within these strategic partnerships, it was just too difficult.”
Economic recessions shift wine consumption away from restaurants and toward home drinking
“It is, I don't want to say it's recession-proof because the channels in which you operate definitely play into when a recession hits, for sure, when it comes to the wine industry, but I would say for the most part you see that consumption lessens out in, in re…”