The U.S. wine industry continues to experience a meteoric rise in direct-to-consumer sales, with Oregon wineries seeing the sharpest increase of all in 2017. That’s according to an annual report by Wines & Vines magazine and Sovos, a company that makes tax compliance and…

Americans drank $28 million of canned wine in 2017, nearly twice what they drank in 2016, with one third of that being made in Portland, Oregon.  And canned wine is quite affordable, when compared to its bottle counterpart.  It surely seems that canned wine…

The U.S. wine market is substantial, with sales in 2016 reaching $34.1 billion.  Historically, these dollars would all have gone toward wine in bottles.  But recently, entrepreneurs have been capitalizing on a new, growing trend—wine in a can—with sales steadily growing.  Additionally, men are…

Subscription-based monthly wine clubs, which debuted in the 1970s, created a mail-order wine model that persists still today.  But the crowd-sourced feedback systems of today’s wine drinkers are causing a significant shift in wine markets.  Today’s wine connoisseurs follow a different kind of expert,…

The Knotty Brothers were recently featured in a Captial Press article highlighting the exciting debut of their first wine—Twenty 16 Vintage Pinot Gris.  The wine, packaged in a can instead of a bottle, promises to be easy to serve in restaurants, and offers built-in…

Bottles have historically been the dominant package chosen by craft brewers, but cans are making consistent gains against bottles as the package of choice.  Bart Watson of Brewers Association details the latest trends from studies and surveys, looking at factors such as consumer perception,…