Afternoon Brief: Learn From the Best - Tap into the Minds Shaping the Future of Wine

Members of the wine industry seeking solutions to their most pressing problems will have a suite of experts providing insights, advice and answers to the industrys most complicated questions at the 13th Annual WIN Expo on December 4, 2025...

Afternoon Brief: Wine Institute Launches the Share Wine Co-Lab

Developed after more than a year of consumer research and creative collaboration, the platform offers wineries practical tools, expert insights and interactive learning opportunities to engage todays consumers in fresh, relevant and authentic ways...

Afternoon Brief: Distilled Spirits Council Statement on the Federal Government Shutdown

The federal government shutdown will have a significant and detrimental impact on the Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), the lead federal agency responsible for permitting, regulating and collecting taxes on distilled spirits...

Afternoon Brief, September 25

Afternoon Brief: Sonoma County Puts Wine Tax on Hold

Sonoma County Vintners have put on hold a plan to tax local wineries to create a special Wine Business Improvement District. The plan would tax Sonoma County wineries 1% on sales, using that money to market the region and its wines...

Afternoon Brief: Southern Glazer's in Legal Crosshairs at FTC

The Federal Trade Commission will sue Southern Glazers, the worlds biggest wine wholesaler, for illegal business practices that include charging small retailers higher prices than its biggest customers...

Afternoon Brief, March 6th

First-of-Its-Kind Industry-Wide Initiative Launches to Address Sexual Harassment in Beverage Alcohol and Hospitality: 86 Harassment is a free industry resource providing employers and employees with access to training, education, a confidential hotline, and prevention tools from industry experts...

Afternoon Brief, October 14th

Napa Lawsuit Plants Seeds of Doubt: A legal challenge to Napa's lawmakers hinges on the definition of the world "plant"...

Elizabeth Banks and Archer Roose Experience Their New Bubbly Rosé in the Metaverse—Sort of

BOSTON, Oct. 13, 2022 While seemingly every brand has been racing toward the new technological playground known as the metaverse, Archer Roose a leading canned wine company has []