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How Restaurant Wine Buyers Make Their Selections (or Should) I was a restaurant wine buyer for years before focusing exclusively on wine education.
I also discuss the struggles and success of many of my friends who work in that capacity and to those who sell wholesale to them. From all of this I thought I had seen it all. That was until I was invited to the wine team’s monthly tasting at Hakkasan Restaurant in San Francisco recently. Some restaurant wine buyers taste sample wines with the vendors for hours every day. Others limit it to 1-2 days per week. I usually limited wine vendor appointments to 1-2 days a week for about 2 hours each day.
What I experienced at Hakkasan was far better than anything I have done as far as keeping the staff involved, encouraging the vendors to bring the most appropriate wines and ensure that there are great wines and great food pairings for the guests. Two of my graduates, Ronald Plunkett and Cassandra Brown, are on the team of 5 sommeliers at Hakkasan. WineBid.com - Fine wine for the privileged many. Munich Wine Company - Online and Live Wine Auctions for high quality wines, champagnes, spirits. On Premise Matrix.
Motivating a sales force and ensuring they are working their sales area to its fullest potential is difficult but vital for ongoing growth in the excessively tight on premise wine market.
Categorising customers into similar groups which distinguish customer or consumer needs is a powerful method of optimising sales potential, especially when tied to a suitable budget. The Wine Rep created this On Premise Matrix a couple of years ago to help improve the on premise sales of a wine distributor, linking venue categories to a ranging budget irrespective of actual sales (sales will follow ranging). This page contains a simple description of the matrix, while the downloadable pdf (at bottom of page) contains further information and an in depth description of the powerful On Premise Matrix Points Budget. Winery Exchange - Private Brand Wine. In 2011, the wine market in the United States experienced its 18th consecutive year of positive growth in case volume, increasing 2.5% to 311 million cases.
Dollar sales increased even faster (+2.9% to $28 billion) as consumers moved towards higher-end purchases. Private brand wine is continuing to show extremely positive growth. Winery Exchange has been producing award-winning private brand wines for over 10 years. These wines receive accolades and awards both domestically and internationally with over 428 medals awarded in 2012.
Arrow Creek Pinot Grigio was awarded a Double Gold Medal at the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Espuela del Gaucho Torrontes won Best of Class at the Jerry D. Meet SevenFifty, The Beverage Industry's Next Big Thing - The Culintro Blog. Buying wine, beer and spirits can be an overwhelming task for even the most established beverage directors or sommeliers.
That’s why Aaron Sherman, a beverage program veteran, invented SevenFifty, a new platform to easily connect distributors and buyers around New York. We spoke to Sherman about how the program works and why it’s revolutionizing the beverage buying industry today. Can you briefly explain how SevenFifty works for those who haven’t heard of it? We work with well over 100 wine, spirits, and beer distributors across New York and New Jersey (with additional states coming soon) to offer their full wholesale product portfolios for search and browsing online. Though still growing, this already comprises the largest collection of distributor portfolios available online and covers well over 40,000 products.
What are some of the specific ways buyers can search for beverages? Most importantly, all these attributes can be combined as needed. Wine-Searcher. Find and Price Wines. Vinogusto : Wine guide with user reviews. SevenFifty. SevenFifty drags the wine industry into the 21st century Dr Vino's wine blog. Picture yourself at a wine trade tasting: there are hundreds of wines to taste but you have to juggle a bulky tasting notebook, a pen, and a wine glass while swirling, spitting and dodging fellow tasters who may be heading to the spit bucket.
Wouldn’t it be so much easier if you could see the tasting book on your smart phone, sort by style or wine region, and take notes in a profile? That’s what I did yesterday at a tasting of the NYC distributor Verity Wine Partners. It was my first tasting without using a pen and, having done it, I can’t imagine doing it any other way. Not only was it so much more convenient during the tasting, but when I got back to my desk, I could access my tasting notes and star ratings online. There was no booklet to throw out or clutter my office and no scribbling that was indecipherable the next day. Such an approach is now possible thanks to an innovative company called SevenFifty, a startup that is quietly dragging the wine industry into the 21st century. Buy Wine Online - Wine Gifts, Ratings and Recommendations.