SVB on Wine

  The answer to the blog title is the point of the Annual SVB Direct to Consumer Videocast, which is taking place this coming Wednesday, Jun...

The 2022 Direct to Consumer Survey Has Been Extended As of the scheduled closing date of Friday the 18th, we had a little over 400 responses...

  Selling Wine in a Pandemic What an insane past few years! But doesn't it feel wonderful to be moving into spring and at the same time ...

    Last week I had a call from a friend in the wine business asking for a meeting to discuss the Annual SVB State of the Wine Industry Repo...

We all became unusually preoccupied in the U.S.starting somewhere around March 15th, 2020. I don't know about you, but the picture above...

I have an announcement to make! That's always been a phrase that makes me nervous. People don't walk into the room and grab a bullho...

In the fall of each year, I pull apart the US Wine Industry into components and then analyze what's changed, review the trends, and make...

  SVB Wine Conditions Survey Problems are Opportunities Waiting for Solutions This is the last week to participate in the Annual SVB Winery ...

  How are we doing on the SVB Annual Winery Survey? I get the question all the time at survey time. Let me update you. With two weeks down a...

  Water Concern The Annual SVB Winery Conditions Survey has been open for one week  and will close on October 15th. We currently have about ...

Photo by Mohau Mannathoko I don't like it but... it's true. I might have missed on a prediction that I made.  Starting in January of...

The Report Fifteen hundred people signed up to watch the 2021 Silicon Valley Bank Annual Direct to Consumer Videocast held on May 25th, wher...

       How do you sell wine in a Pandemic? That was the question asked in middle-March 2020 as the industry, country, and world awoke to dis...

Opportunity Knocks Ebullience!  That's a word we haven't heard much in the past year. But I predict that's only the start. You m...

    Let's Never have Another Year like 2020 I opened the 2021 SVB State of the Industry Report with this line: "2020 will go down ...

    The Case to be Made for a Party   At the end of Prohibition in the U.S. the consumption of wine as measured, slowly grew until war was d...

      We're All Glad that Year is Over 2020 will go down as the year in which we answered the heretofore rhetorical question - What else...

  This is the opening photo from the 20th Annual SVB State of the Industry Report where we begin with a reflection; not on our industry, bu...

While the unprecedented impacts of the Pandemic and wildfires have rightfully absorbed the attention of the media and industry participants,...

Spring, Summer, Fall, Planning  Winter is a time for planning - and do we ever need to plan! But where do we start?  Are we oversupplied sti...