If you're selling wine, be sure to have a storage area, and know a zinfandel from a merlot.
Over the same period Yellow Tail, though still the biggest-selling wine brand in the U.S., lost market share in dollar terms and was flat in volume.
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The runaway vintage is quite a feat for the Casella winery, founded by two Italian immigrants in 1969, which only recently was selling wine to the company that's now its main competitor, Southcorp, the Sydney-based giant.
When rival producers in California, like Gallo and Italian Swiss Colony, began selling wine under their own national brands, Sands created Richards, concocting it not from the Vitis vinifera grapes used in France and California but the generic grapes grown in upstate New York.
Mr. Spingarn told me that his top-selling German wine today isn't a Riesling at all, but a Pinot Noir.
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Southcorp, which owns the two biggest-selling Australian wine brands in America, has seen its share price increase by over 50% this year.
At the trial today, Cortes told a smooth narrative about what happened next: Greenberg announced that he was selling some wine to fund a company he was starting, and because he had more than he could drink.
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To address the lines and crowding, organizers have overhauled the layout, spread out food tents, boosted the number of cashiers to three per restaurant tent, and upgraded the system for selling beer and wine.
During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.
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He also says Morton's is trying to create more values as the economy sags, in part by negotiating prices on large allotments of a particular wine, then selling it by the glass.
These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.
On at least one occasion in recent years, he has personally run short on funds as chronicled in the Wall Street Journal when he was selling off his yachts, planes and wine collection.
William Koch took the witness stand in the second week of a civil trial in which he accuses one-time billionaire Eric Greenberg of fraudulently selling him two dozen bottles of phony vintage wine in 2005.
The sweet, carbonated, soda-like wine was an instant domestic hit, selling hundreds of thousands of cases for major producers such as Villa Maria.
Five years ago he noticed that a company called Nanjing Fenshilan Ice Wine Co. had popped up, selling what it maintains is Vineland Estates icewine, complete with photos of Schmidt's winery adorning its claim that it was the sole agent of Vineland in the Asia-Pacific region.
The duo was fortunate in having good local vineyards to draw on, notably those planted by the Rochioli family, who had been selling their grapes to Korbel for use in its sparkling wine.
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Other statistics included one stall alone selling five tons of cheese, 6, 500 glasses of mulled wine being dispensed, 7, 000 bratwurst sausages eaten and more than 1, 000 musicians and singers helping to provide entertainment.
His first venture was selling medical equipment, before switching to trading precious metals, as well as wine, when demand for that commodity boomed in China.
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User-friendly wine brands, including a couple of these, represented nine of the ten top-selling new table wines introduced last year, says Information Resources Inc.
Earlier this year, the Enchantment started putting a couple of full-sized bottles of local wine and chocolate-covered grapes atop a cabinet next to the television, a move toward "suggestive selling" says Kelly Dunagan-Johnson, the hotel's retail director.
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