I’ve been getting some inquires privately suggesting that I should be talking about the recently-released State of the Wine Industry 2024 report by Silicon Valley Bank. But I don’t want to talk about it. It’s been covered in almost breaking news style across the wine biz since its release, and going into detail about it…
Category: wine news
Not Dead Yet (Thoughts on 1WD Radio Silence)
Greetings, and apologies from 1WD central. Normally, I’d use an introductory paragraph such as this one to opine that my lateness in updating this website is due to the fact that I have a toddler, but in this case that actually wouldn’t be honest. Well, I do honestly have a toddler, but it’s not her…
Pix’s Troubles Are Yet Another Warning to the U.S. Wine Industry
It’s been big news within the (admittedly internecine) world of the U.S. wine business that Napa Valley startup Pix recently had to lay off most of its staff. This has been an especially bitter pill for me to swallow, because 1) I truly believe that Pix (still in Beta) represents the future of how wine…
Gonna Take a Newwwwwws Break (Follow 1WineDude on the New App!)
So… I went and did a thing. I’ve partnered up with news app News Break to provide some (hopefully!) fun and informative wine content. I’ll be steadily ramping up articles on their platform over the next few months (1WineDude.com isn’t going anywhere, by the way; this is an additional venture that I took on, in…