Wine Entrepreneur Network

08/29/2012

New Chattanooga Wine and Cheese bar. http://www.nooga.com/156979/wine-and-cheese-bar-brix-nouveau-opens-thursday/

Wine and cheese bar Brix Nouveau opens Thursday

08/13/2012

Now Pouring at Fashion Site Vente-Privee: Online Wine http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-12/now-pouring-at-fashion-site-vente-privee-online-wine.html

Jacques-Antoine Granjon has made millions selling high fashion at cut-rate prices online. Now, the French entrepreneur with a rock-star-like image, who recently appeared with Iggy Pop in a promotional video, wants to do the same with wine.

05/22/2012

North Highland DC office wine club inaugural event is only in 2 days. Will talk about wine futures and taste vertical selection of Leoville-Barton from 1982 to 2009 with few select guests. Can't wait.

05/14/2012

Wines Targeting Women Are Long on Legs, Short on Flavor
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-14/wines-targeting-women-are-long-on-legs-short-on-flavor.html

Freud struggled to find an answer to the question “What does a woman want?” Ninety-odd years later, some in the wine industry think they know.

05/01/2012

Daily deals have all the right flavours for wine entrepreneur

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/startup/daily-deals-have-all-the-right-flavours-for-wine-entrepreneur-20120430-1xuby.html

05/01/2012

After cupcakes wines, now Jellybean Wines...what's next to impress millenials? http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9458576.htm

OFFbeat Brands has launched Jellybean Wines, a new line of internationally sourced varietal wines produced in an approachable, fruit-forward style designed to appeal to the “sweet spot” of Millennial and Generation X consumers.

04/17/2012

'SHARK TANK' Returns With a Wine Entrepreneur Who Dared to Turn Down the Sharks Twice! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shark-tank-returns-with-an-entrepreneur-who-dared-to-turn-down-the-sharks-twice-2012-04-16

04/12/2012

One of the reasons I love America: the sky is the limit....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U

A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad's used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine's Scholarsh...

03/29/2012

Can wine become an American habit? (Fortune, 1934) http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/03/25/american-wine-fortune-1934/

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a feature from 1934 on the U.S. wine industry (original headline:

03/20/2012

The Profiles of Social Media People in the Wine Industry http://www.vintank.com/2012/03/the-profiles-of-social-media-people-in-the-wine-industry/

We’ve had the privilege to see the wine industry evolve over three years in the usage of social media. We have now reached the point where social media has penetrated enough of the market to start assessing how it is being used and by whom. Working with almost 4K wine brands with our software we hav...

03/20/2012

Global wine shortage forecast http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/03/global-wine-shortage-forecast/

A Californian wine shortage is creating increasing concern over a tightening of global wine supply, writes Andrew Catchpole.

03/19/2012

Should Equity-Based Crowd Funding Be Legal? Would this help wine entrepreneurship? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577265512766009938.html?KEYWORDS=equity+based+crowd+funding

Yes, says Dave Lavinsky, because businesses would get access to many more potential investors with a strong motivation to become loyal customers. No, says John M. Torrens, because it would create complications for people on both sides of the transaction, and there are better ways to get capital to e...