Archive for month: December, 2019

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Your top four key takeaways from 2019

As we count down the days to a new decade, looking back and looking forward is inevitable. Looking back at the most read stories from Wine Intelligence Weekly in 2019, two key themes emerge – ‘who are our future drinkers?’ and ‘how…
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The Reflective Twenties?

Our annual predictions for the first year of the next decade enter the stage to sombre mood music, reflecting the challenges our industry faces over the next 12 months Wine is a risky business. It remains an agricultural product, dependent…
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The plural drinker

The biggest threat to the wine industry in the next decade may be coming from regular wine drinkers substituting wine for other drinks at certain occasions, such as hard seltzer and cannabis wine Until recently, wine has managed to navigate…
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The slow ascent of cannabis wine

A number of drinks businesses are betting on success over the next few years by removing alcohol from wine and adding cannabis in some form, targeting the same younger, premium-oriented consumers that are currently driving value growth in the…
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Will gin drink wine under the table?

As wine consumption in the UK declines, gin consumption has been steadily increasing. Are these trends connected? It is not news that wine consumption in the UK has been on the decline over the past few years. Since 2014, the volume of nine…
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2019 predictions: The results are in

How did our resident futurologist’s five predictions for this year perform? Timing is everything in the prediction industry. Too early and you look like a fool for a while, and only justified much later; slightly too late and you are stating…