In this week’s roundup, VineSpring gives craft producers the tools they need to fuse their website and eCommerce store into one seamless experience for customers. US wineries begin opening their doors and adjusting to the new normal for tasting room operations. Free the Grapes! celebrates the fifteen-year anniversary of Granholm v. Heald and how that decision helped shape today’s DTC landscape. Alcohol sales hit the strongest growth week since the beginning of the lockdown. Pre-mixed cocktails have become more popular with stay-at-home orders. Industry members contemplate how the coronavirus will affect luxury wine.

Tools to Customize Your eCommerce Store

One challenge for craft producers is that their websites and eCommerce stores often live on two different platforms. Learn how you can rely on VineSpring to create a seamless experience that brings your tasting room to life online.

US Wineries Cautiously Begin Reopening Phase

Across the country, wineries are starting to see restrictions lift on their tasting room operations. The new normal is full of uncertainties and challenges and the rules vary from state to state. How the wineries approach these challenges will create a roadmap for other vintners in the upcoming weeks and months.

Fifteen Years After Winery DTC Shipping’s Milestone Day

In 2004, only twenty-seven states allowed direct-to-consumer (DTC) wine shipping. Fifteen years later, thanks to the United States Supreme Court decision in Granholm v. Heald, we now have forty-five states open to DTC with Kentucky set to be the forty-sixth later this summer.

Alcohol Sales Sees Strongest One Week Growth Since First Week of Pandemic Lockdown

Warmer weather paired with Cinco de Mayo purchasing and indoor-fatigue encouraged consumers to make the week ending on May 2nd to be the strongest growth rate for alcohol since the peak week of March 21st. People are eager to celebrate and break up the monotony.

Ready-to-Drink Booze Is Winning the Stay-at-Home Drinking Game

It’s all over the news—people are drinking more at home since the lockdown. Ready-to-drink beverages are on the rise. While hard seltzers and canned wine have been enjoying life in the limelight for a while now, pre-mixed cocktails have been a hit in homes around the country.

Will the Coronavirus Make Luxury Napa Valley Wine Less Relevant?

Many believe that the coronavirus will intensify the wine industry’s preexisting conditions. Will the overstock of 2019 carry over into 2020? And, will the industry finally figure out how to connect with millennials or further alienate itself and reduce luxury wine to irrelevance?