Small Fortune Podcast

Global Wine Partners

Our podcast is about the wine business, how difficult it is to be successful and why. It’s also about the strategies that various participants in the industry have used to overcome the challenges inherent in making and selling wine. And it is simply about telling the stories of the wine business.

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Small Fortune Podcast

Episodes (86)

Tuesday Ep 81: Supporting America’s Grape Growers for the Long Haul with Stuart Spencer
Jul 21st Ep 80: Martha Barra on Mendocino and Organic Wine
Jul 7th Ep 79: Stephen Brauer: Route to Market is More Than Distributor Alignment

Small Fortune Podcast

Aug 4, 2026
40½ minutes
45 MB

As today’s guest Stuart Spencer - grape grower, winemaker, and Executive Director of the Lodi Winegrape Commission – puts it in today’s interview, the US is the only major wine producing country in the world that allows its national wine designation to include foreign-source wine. Carol and Stuart discuss the recent failure of a California law, AB 1585. With American grapes going unsold and growers in severe economic distress, California growers and many others in the industry joined together to eliminate this Federal labelling loophole. The industry is working on new ideas to accomplish this goal, and in her introd...

Small Fortune Podcast

Ep 81: Supporting America’s Grape Growers for the Long Haul with Stuart Spencer

Global Wine Partners

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