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...