SVB on Wine

Following the takeover of Silicon Valley Bank by the FDIC on March 10th, I found myself needing to take a break from watching the news for s...

Without greater participation this last week, there will be no SVB Direct to Consumer Report produced this year. It's always difficult t...

For those following closely, you will notice that I've changed the headline slide back from Rob McMillan on Wine, to the prior blog titl...

  Photo by  Maksym Kaharlytskyi  on  Unsplash During the SVB meltdown last month, I wrote each of the first three weeks regarding the ordeal...

     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'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...

  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...

  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...

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

  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 ...