SVB on Wine

     I'm not dead yet! Fear of the unknown is a real thing. I think it's a self-protection response. Fear puts all of your senses on...

  MORPHEUS:   You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.   You take the red...

Processing Those who've read this blog before may notice the headline slide has changed from  SVB on Wine  to Rob McMillan on Wine . I k...

  Register here for the videocast, replay, presentation deck, and copy of this year's report. Within the 2022 SVB State of the Wine Ind...

  We are so close to meeting the participation goal in the Annual SVB Wine Industry Survey but are still about 10% short of the responses we...

  We've created a Sentiment Index and have run with the idea in our State of the Industry Report for the last 6 years, gaining some inte...

There is one week remaining to participate in the Annual State of the Industry. This annual effort is an industry partnership. SVB provides ...

  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...