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Hmmm…..so why is business so tough out there in the Post-COVID market? Overstocked distributors, a resurgence in the popularity of spirits, continued weakness in the restaurant sector as well as legal marijuana in some markets and neo-prohibitionism are ALL weighing on sales. I speak to producers, importers and retailers all day long and few (if any) are experiencing any growth in sales at all. Staying even is considered a hard won success. Those BMO numbers show solid increases….sorry to say that I’m not seeing them.

Good news is more important than ever in the doldrum recesses of the naysayer mind.... 🤓 But the issue is that this news really isn't new, as you can see in the graph. So why the disconnect? Why is everything so disjointed & overwhelming in the wine supply chain? As we know, there's a LOT of moving parts in this picture & the one that we still haven't reconciled (think an imbalanced checkbook) is the temporary pain of: "US Wine Oversupply generated by a single year flood of 50,000,000 more gallons than the U.S. wine market could handle after the 'smoke' rejection of 325,000 tons of grapes in 2020 (simultaneous to the 27% price drop of international wines when the world shut down). It really is quite simple in one sense. Math matters. Consider first, the 700,000+/- tons on unharvested grapes in 2023. Thank GOODNESS those grapes didn't hit the market!! The simple math is 50,000,000 gallons of oversupply from imports shipped in one year ('21-'22) divided by 170 gallons per ton divided by 6+ tons to the acre and........well, there you have it! Have what!??? 50,000 acres of California grapes being recommended to pull out to rebalance. That # has now increased to a 70,000 acre recommendation but it is more like 100,000 acres in reality. Why? Because there's no slowing the additional importation of wines. Don't get me wrong. I'm not here to say good or bad or right or wrong. We're just trying to get to accuracy of reporting, accuracy of the mechanisms causing supply strains, & accuracy of reporting whether or not current policies for wine trade are either healthy or unhealthy for the U.S. wine trade overall. We know that reduced cost imported products are supplying better value to U.S. wine consumers. 'But'....who really wins when 90+% of the supplier side loses? Can a weak domestic U.S. supplier wine industry make for strong international wine trade partnerships? Who is actually out there counting the costs. "But the good new Nick!!!" YES! We have so much good news but the negativity is causing a national nausea, in-turn stifling the creative wine mind from creating great strategic wine plans. Australia has 20x the strategic thinking than the U.S. wine trade...& they're fighting to do better. (yes Dan Eggleton and Emanuel Skorpos?) So am I for the importation of excellent wine at great pricing? Absolutely! In fact, I'm importing!! The U.S. wine trade is in much better condition than the downtrodden media & low-grade data pundits are portraying. While we clean up the mediocre grape quality & equally mediocre wine branding, we should simultaneously leverage the facts of these numbers & prepare for the largest increase in wine consumption that the U.S. has ever witnessed. Mark my words. Buy me a drink if I'm right.....& we'll smile all the way to the bank BECAUSE we responded to our market challenges with purpose & imagination. #winevision #winefuture #internationaltrade #tradepolicy #wheretradematters #techtalk4wine