With about 42% of the “off premise” wine (as opposed to on-premise restaurant purchases) in the US being bought at supermarkets, every consumer should take a hard look at how limited their options really are. They can back up a trailer to a warehouse and load in pallets of “different wines” with different labels from all across the globe and then take that trailer right to the major grocery chains. To the best of my knowledge, General Mills and Unilever are not in the wine business….yet.įor the sake of efficiency (and profits) these large distributors tend to focus on the big clients in their portfolios–the Constellations and the Gallos. This is not just because our archaic three-tier distribution system severely limits consumers’ access to wine but also because of the wave of consolidations among large wine distributors. Yet the average wine drinker is only ever going to see a fraction of a percent of these wines–especially those of us in the US. It’s important for consumers to be aware of just how artificially limited their choices really are–especially because consumers should have choices when there are over 4000 wineries in California, over 700 each in Washington and Oregon and tens of thousands more across the globe. As I described in my post The Facade of Choice, when you walk the wine department of your typical grocery store the vast majority of the wines you see are going to be made by the same handful of companies. One of the most glaring features of the report is how often you see the names Constellation Brands, E & J Gallo, The Wine Group and more appear in the rankings with their multitude of different brands.
It’s also regularly updated and is a fantastic resource that is worth bookmarking.īeverage Dynamics released their report this month of The Fastest Growing Wine Brands and Top Trends of 2017. But I’d like to direct folks interested in this info to Elizabeth Schneider’s way more user-friendly and searchable list on her Wine For Normal People blog.
#Cooper and thief wine constellation update#
Sept 2018 update: If I come across new connections that haven’t been widely publish I will update this page. April 2019 update: A lot of brand movement following the huge deal between Constellation Brands and E & J Gallo.
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