The Wine Tech Insiders

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Winc bankruptcy https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/12/online-wine-membership-club-winc-files-for-bankruptcy/ Chat GPT https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Please steal these ideas!! The insiders brainstorm on the next ideas in the Wine Tech space.

And the debate continues… https://www.unfilteredwine.co/p/lose-100m Naked cuts 6% of workforce https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/10/naked-wines-cuts-6-of-its-workforce/ https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/WINE/operational-and-financial-update/15679747 How much are wine brands worth? https://vinepair.com/articles/what-happens-when-winemakers-sell-their-names/ Sound and wine: What is your favourite song to drink wine to? https://www.winemag.com/2022/10/19/sound-and-wine/?utm_source=AfternoonBrief&utm_medium=newsletter

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Seb / Troly / troly.io With Special Guest Santiago from Packamama.com

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Algorithms may not be the answer https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/wine-tech-algorithms-17410496.php Wine Reviews are crooked? https://www.everydaydrinking.com/p/wine-media-is-broken-a-case-study Wine Investment funds https://www.winespectator.com/articles/wine-as-liquid-asset-do-wine-investment-funds-deliver?utm_source=AfternoonBrief&utm_medium=newsletter

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Pix lays off staff https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/Napa-wine-tech-17393476.php Do Vivino rating suck? https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/vivino-app-top-wines-17408037.php Treasury victory in China https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/companies/victory-for-treasury-wines-in-chinese-court-over-alleged-copycat-brand-20220810-p5b8ny.html?utm_source=AfternoonBrief&utm_medium=newsletter

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Special Guest Simon Farr Chairman Cru World Wine Champagne with NFT sells for 2.5 M. https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/07/worlds-most-expensive-champagne-sells-for-record-us2-5-million/

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Australia’s leading wine authority to close office in China as exports plunge https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/australias-leading-wine-authority-to-close-office-in-china-as-exports-plunge.html Flat pack plastic bottles https://www.goodfood.com.au/drinks/wine/its-hip-to-be-square-with-your-wine-as-flatpack-eco-bottle-launches-nationally-20220630-h24ry4 Bordeaux château fraud https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/07/owner-of-bordeaux-chateau-arrested-in-huge-fake-bordeaux-supermarket-fraud/ Should we give up on pairing apps? https://www.everydaydrinking.com/p/food-and-drink-pairings-are-ridiculous https://www.vinography.com/2020/04/food_and_wine_pairing_is_junk https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814621024730 Wine searches serge in Google https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/06/searches-for-wine-see-huge-acceleration-on-google/

Global wine consumption increased by 4 percent in volume, and by 16 percent in value to $36.15 billion last year https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2022/05/wines-supply-crisis-opportunity-in-disguise "Materials like cobalt, copper, and nickel are all constrained right now, and all are used in colored glass manufacturing," she says. "Less supply and continued high demand means higher pricing." https://www.eatthis.com/news-wine-prices-going-up/ Glass 80% higher over the past year. https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/bottle-shortages-threaten-indies-glass-prices Wine capsules are going away https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/05/26/wine-bottle-foil-going-away/

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Tim Atkin and the personalities of the wine trade https://timatkin.com/wine-trade-blues/ Wine certification - are they still relevant? https://vinepair.com/articles/does-anyone-still-care-about-wine-certifications/

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Death of the glass Bottle https://www.foodandwine.com/news/glass-wine-bottle-costs-rise Antitrust Suit from Provi Leaves Big Distributors Sweating https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2022/04/antitrust-suit-leaves-big-distributors-sweating?rss=Y&utm_source=AfternoonBrief&utm_medium=newsletter Commerce7 adds VineSpring https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/04/04/commerce7-acquires-vinespring-propelling-customer-centric-technology-solutions-in-the-wine-industry Answer to Wine Fraud? https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/wine-fraud-in-spain-could-be-ancient-history-with-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-tech.html https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/utrecht-university-and-bruker-to-develop-methods-for-studying-protein-structure-and-interactions-by-mass-spectrometry.html

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Wine detectives at Barry Brothers Berry Bros & Rudd https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2022/feb/27/wine-crime-is-soaring-but-a-new-generation-of-tech-savvy-detectives-is-on-the-case 8,000 bottles of counterfeit Penfolds worth over RMB 10 million (US$1.6 million) https://vino-joy.com/2022/03/16/over-8000-fake-penfolds-busted-in-mega-fake-wine-operation/amp/ 12 bottles of fake Yellow Tail wine – the latest Birmingham store to be caught out https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/birmingham/2022/03/17/birmingham-shops-licence-revoked-after-fake-wine-discovery/

Your Insiders are: Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io UKRAINE Wine for weapons http://www.the-buyer.net/insight/ukrainian-wineries-molotov-cocktails/ Taking a stand https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/russia-ukraine-a-statement-from-the-dwwa-475994/?cx_testId=2&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&cx_experienceId=EXGVMI4LCRYF#cxrecs_s https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/03/01/royal-wine-takes-a-stand-in-support-of-ukraine https://www.retail-insight-network.com/news/plcb-ukraine-invasion/ Wines of Ukraine https://ukr.wine/wineries.html Ukraine as a market for wine https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanabortolot/2022/02/27/ukraine-is-a-small-but-mighty-market-for-wine/?sh=6d95158b690d History of Wine in the Ukraine https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanabortolot/2022/02/26/raise-a-glass-to-ukraines-wine-history/?sh=4ce7a54d2730 Going to ProWein https://magazine.wein.plus/news/ukrainian-vintners-want-to-come-to-prowein-despite-the-war-wines-of-ukraine-sticks-to-participation-in-duesseldorf CANA Drinks Printer Cana revealed to the world Cana CEO Matt Mahar on launching a "Replicator for beverages" & turning a product into a platform

Your Insiders are Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io What is sustainable wine? https://www.wellandgood.com/what-is-sustainable-wine/ Wine under threat from Climate change. Model for other industries? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/what-can-the-wine-industry-teach-us-about-sustainability/ Paper Bottles https://biomarketinsights.com/hp-acquires-choose-packaging/ Sustainability is also becoming the latest mark of luxury. https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/29903/Soapbox:_Why_sustainability_makes_perfect_business_sense.html Sustainable over organic https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomaspellechia/2019/06/26/survey-of-wine-consumers-says-sustainability-takes-precedence-over-organic/?sh=6da494157bd8

Your Insiders are Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io The insiders dive into the technology they use to make their own companies run better. Some of the technology we talk about: Text expander https://textexpander.com/ Drift https://www.drift.com/ Clickup https://clickup.com/ Asana https://app.asana.com/ Slack https://slack.com/ One Password https://1password.com/ Google Docs https://www.google.com/docs/about/ Intercom https://www.intercom.com/ HubSpot https://www.hubspot.com/ Active campaign https://www.activecampaign.com/

Wine from Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajzLwGAntI&t=3115s David Friedberg on Cana This week in Startups with Jason Calacanasis Sevenfifty and Provi https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/01/25/provi-sevenfifty-join-forces-expand-b2b-marketplace

Your Insiders are Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Omicron wipes out Chile and New Zealand tasting.. more to likely follow https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/29752/Chile_tasting_postponed_as_other_physical_January_trade_events_hang_in_the_balance.html A Sober January? https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/drinks/300490669/a-sobering-start-to-the-year-drinking-better-wine-means-we-need-to-be-better-drinkers How to drink wine https://uk.news.yahoo.com/three-fourths-people-believe-rules-155700343.html

Your Insiders are Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Nick / Wine Owners / business.wineowners.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Our predictions for 2022 on: Events Supply Chain Regulation Climate change and Social concerns E-commerce Wine Tech and VC funding https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-key-macro-factors-driving-global-wine-industry-/?trackingId=ZPL6EmD2sbtom6C1%2FKnn7g%3D%3D https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/29673/IWSR_report:_E-commerce_to_grow_[…]=e-mail&utm_campaign=Harpers%252Bnewsletter%252BIssue%252B1264 https://news.crunchbase.com/news/vc-funding-online-alcohol-sales-startups-wine-craft-cocktails/

Your Insiders are Laurie / Oushinery / outshinery.com Jonathan / Bottlebooks / bottlebooks.me Seb / Troly / troly.io Shipping crisis explained in detail http://www.the-buyer.net/insight/global-shipping-crisis-hillebrand/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillbarth/2021/11/03/material-shortages-and-supply-chain-challenges-impact-the-wine-industry/?sh=e18261667269 Wine Heist in Spain https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/major-wine-heist-in-spain-restaurant-owner-issues-plea-to-thieves-467989/ Greatest Wine Heists https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/the-5-greatest-wine-heists-of-all-time 5 of the Most Bizarre Wine Heists in Recent Years https://www.winemag.com/2018/03/19/wine-heists/