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The 21st Century Wine Business: Where Farming Meets Facebook

Lenny Stein, Jackson Family Enterprises

Date: 11/03/2008
Duration: 1:04
Description:
As American interest in and knowledge of fine wine grows, the wine industry undergoes tremendous change. Consumers trading
up and down, supplier and wholesaler tiers consolidating, family wine
companies selling out, private equity buying in, new global wine regions
emerging, and the environment taking central stage are just some of the changes occurring. Efforts to undo the
U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2005 victory for consumers gain speed and
traction. As the internet transforms how people discover, discuss, and
buy wine, a future of enormous potential collides with an antiquated
patchwork of prohibition era legislation. In short, fertile ground for
lawyers. Lenny Stein makes a breakneck tour of the business and legal
vineyard that is today’s rapidly changing wine industry.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law and Business and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology