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The Ensh*ttification of the Wine Industry

Tincknell — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:18:53 +0000

by Paul Tincknell, Partner The Great Wine Depression The wine industry is in a depression. Not a downturn, not a…

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The Wine Industry is Often Its Own Worst Enemy

Tincknell — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:59:50 +0000

When the going gets tough the industry circles the wagons and shoots inward Anyone in the wine industry knows that…

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Price and Value

Paul Tincknell — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:53:17 +0000

Recently the topic of wine pricing keeps popping up as a media topic, with some writers all waxing on how wine is priced arbitrarily and without any connection to quality. This post explores their arguments and describes what value is.

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Addressing the Dangers of our Industry

Paul Tincknell — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 03:17:36 +0000

This past weekend a brilliant, talented, optimistic young man from our small town was killed by a drunk driver. If there is to be any sense out of this young man’s death, it must begin with an examination of our souls of us who work in the alcohol beverage industry, and acknowledge the role our products play in countless injuries and deaths each year. If we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that we don’t do enough to protect our customers.

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Getting Wine Pricing Right

Paul Tincknell — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:19:56 +0000

Over the years Tincknell & Tincknell have helped hundreds of clients wrestle with product pricing. Surprisingly, most domestic wineries do not know how pricing works in the three-tier sales channel, much less foreign wineries. It is not a simple or linear equation.

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10.11.01 – Ecommerce Dead?

Paul Tincknell — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 03:38:43 +0000

A reoccurring question this Clarkesian year of 2001 asked by clients and wine industry acquaintances alike has been: "Is ecommerce dead?" The cratering of Wine.com and WineShopper.com, the relatively modest performance of other wine dot-coms to-date, and the collapse of the NASDAQ and business-to-consumer ecommerce ventures throughout 2000 and 2001 certainly give warrant to such a question. However, Tincknell & Tincknell’s answer has staunchly been and is: "NO!"

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