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How Constellation Brands is Embracing Consumer Trends February 08, 2021 Robert Hanson is Constellation’s executive vice president and president Wine + Spirits Division, reporting to president and CEO Bill Newlands. Hanson joined the company in June 2019. He previously served as a member of Constellation's Board of Directors from 2013-2019. Prior to assuming his position with the Wine + Spirits Division at Constellation, he was CEO at John Hardy Global Limited, the global luxury jewelry brand. Hanson spoke with WBM last month for WBM’s 2020 Outlook and Trends report but excer...

Bill Davies’ new wines Bill Davies, drawing on his family history as part of the Schramsberg winery, has launched a new line of wines. Davies, the son of Jack and Jamie Davies who founded Schramsberg in the mid-1960s, makes Billy D, and Ramble wines sourced from Northern California vineyards at a custom-crush facility. Billy D wines include Mountain Barbera, French Colombard and Daydreamer Rosé. The logo, a billy goat, invokes Davies’s dedication to bucking old trends while creating new ones. Ramble features lower-alcohol offerings with certified organic fruit from 70-100-year-ol...

Alpha Omega Hires Winemaker Andy Erickson as Consultant Posted on January 31, 2021 RUTHERFORD, Calif. – Alpha Omega, a family-owned winery in the legendary Rutherford appellation of Napa Valley, is pleased to announce celebrated winemaker Andy Erickson as its new consulting winemaker. Erickson will work with one of Alpha Omega’s founding winemakers, Henrik Poulsen, who helped put Alpha Omega wines on the Napa Valley map. Alpha Omega Vintners Robin and Michelle Baggett have been friends with Erickson and his wife, Annie Favia, both vintners, for more than decade. “My relationship with An...

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illustration: Danielle Grinberg Screaming Eagle famously makes some of the most well-regarded, limited, and absolutely jaw-droppingly expensive wine in all of America. Owned today by billionaire Stan Kroenke, Screaming Eagle’s Sauvignon Blanc sells for over $5,000 a bottle on average, and currently has a waiting list that reportedly takes over a decade to ascend to the top of, simply to be allowed to purchase bottles from the mere 400 to 750 cases released per year. This remains such an achievement to would-be buyers that it’s the third most prominent link on the winery’s website. That�...