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Ep. 38: Zero Sugar, 90 Points, 1 Smash Hit: The Story Behind Sunny With a Chance of Flowers
What can dog food teach you about the wine market? Heidi Scheid was walking through the supermarket in 2019 when she noticed that there...
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Ep 37: How Rod Micallef Turned Lemons into 3.5M Bottles of Gold
It’s the midnight idea that launched a sensation — Zoncello, the “it” drink of summer 2023 that’s now an established classic. Micallef, a former...
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Ep 36: Nicholas Crampton on Selling 16.8 Million Bottles a Year Without Owning Vineyards
Nicholas Crampton has pulled off what many in wine say can’t be done: turning a small redundancy pay out into a multi-million dollar wine...
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Ep 35: How Bonterra Built a New 50,000 Case Brand by Thinking Like CPG
Kate Herbert used to sell cereal and pet food at General Mills and J.M. Smucker. Now she’s in wine, where the budgets are smaller,...
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Ep 34: How Los Cuernos Canned Wine Transformed the On-Trade With Just $1.4M
How did US wine lose the plot — and a whole generation of new consumers? Cory Assink and Zeke Blattler, co-founders of Los Cuernos,...
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Ep 33: CEO John Sutton on Why The Wine Group Is Betting Big on the Future of Wine
There’s a wine downturn going on, and yet The Wine Group, America’s second-largest wine company, is snapping up brands like the market is expanding....