SVB on Wine

  The Annual Wine Conditions Survey will close this Friday. Thus far over 300 of your fellow wineries have participated from across t...

    I always love this time of year. Harvest is winding down for many and past mid-point for everyone. Fermentation is moving throu...

  I'd like to get your thoughts and comments on something.   As most know, each year I author the SVB State of the Wine Industr...

  On occasion I get suggestions about something on which to blog. I really appreciate the ideas and use them when I can. This past wee...

The Reward of Struggle "What is worth savoring that isn't worth toil. Is...

    I had a request from an industry friend who asked me to talk on this blog about the thought proc...

  I've been asked to help calculate a damage estimate of the losses of the Napa Wine Business Community which will then be used ...

The answer to the title this week is: It depends on how its done because the stakes are raised and if you screw...

Somewhere early in the year 2000 my mother-in-law was moving things out of a vacation home in Mariposa CA. I volunteered my help....

  Thirty-seven states have liberalized the 1970 Federal Controlled Substance Act with respect to marijuana use. Thirty-five now a...

  Can I have Seconds?   It's that time in the cycle again. We are between balanced and long on grape supply...

  While away on vacation the past few weeks, I've had some time to catch up on Dilbert which is a muse for all business revel...

  The Winter of Our Public Discontent     John Steinbeck Consistent with the farming traditions...

  Its been pretty amazing to see the changes in the wine business in the past 20 or so years. The ways in which the business is di...

    Over the last couple of months we've discussed some of the results from the SVB/WBM tasting room survey . There have been som...

This is the time of year when we all hold our breath. In California, some vines are flowering and some are about to. We are mostly out o...

Is Anyone Looking? The wine business is filled with hard-working owners who are passionate about their craft. Never has there been an in...

The psychology and dynamics of consumer choice is complex. Economists can make it even more complex but one of the theories that I...

“Today, our bodies are breaking down from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, depression and the cascade of health ills and...

Ridding the World of Melon Squeezers Melon Squeeezers One dark and stormy night (yes I used that one) ...early in my banking career in M...