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The American wine industry believes it has a problem: millennials.
More specifically, its the fact that aging baby boomers currently the prime market for wine are nearing retirement age, the time of life when consumerism typically declines.
Millennials, the generation that began to come of age after the turn of the century, have given no indication that they are poised to step in. They buy much less wine than boomers, and the wine industry has not done enough to entice them to become regular consumers.
In his annual State of the U.S. Wine Industry report, presented last month, Rob McMillan, an executive vice president of Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., and a longtime analyst of the American wine market, issued a forceful warning that a day of reckoning was coming.
The Wine Business Sees a Problem: Millennials Arent Drinking Enough https://nyti.ms/3J9aEyy
Apparently they prefer craft beer and cocktails. I guess one of my favorite phrases: 'Champagne for Everyone!' will go the way of the dodo!
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)RockRaven
(15,002 posts)economic system we imposed upon them by accident of birth" article/speech.
Maybe millennials genuinely, for no causal reason, randomly happen to prefer beer/spirits to wine. Well, if true, that is unfortunate for wine people...
Or maybe millennials' experience with wine is that it tends to be less accessible to them than beer/spirits, due to current or previous cost differences between the different product types. If so, are we supposed to cry about the fates of the wine mongers?
msongs
(67,442 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Or craft beer either. I love cocktails and mixed drinks though! Those are my go to.
DFW
(54,437 posts)I NEVER drink wine. Period. At all. I can't stand the taste of the stuff. Of course, that goes for beer and any other alcoholic drinks as well. I'm just too young.
When I was about seven years old, my parents were having some people over, and had out some bottles of stuff I wasn't familiar with. I asked, "what IS that stuff you're drinking, daddy?" It was bourbon, sherry, wine, champagne, whatever. He explained what it was, and let me try a sip of each. I was thoroughly revolted and fled back to my Seven-up and ginger ale. He said when I was old enough, I'd learn to like those strange drinks he and his friends were drinking. Well, I'm not old enough, because I still hate the taste of all of them.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)Also dont like the taste and I almost never drink calories except milk in coffee. When I was a little kid the neighbor lady was an alcoholic and watched soap operas and drank Schaffer beer all day. Her kids, my brother and I were in and out of each others houses all the time as kids did back then. She was always asking us if we wanted some of her beer and I would politely decline as my Dad told us that beer tastes like p*ss. She died of cirrhosis at 40. Pretty sure watching that put me off booze for life.
3catwoman3
(24,050 posts)about the taste of beer, IMO.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,367 posts)But if millenials prefer beer, who am I to criticize?
Cheers!
Freddie
(9,275 posts)Love those flavored seltzer beer-like beverages ( )
Low calorie and low carb.
snowybirdie
(5,239 posts)We isolating seniors are taking up the slack! LOL
Wicked Blue
(5,851 posts)because they are drowning in student loan debt.
Time to bring back Ripple?
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)That generation is why we can't have nice things...
Emile
(22,924 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)The kids of today have no idea what we Baby Boomers had to go through! Pretty soon MJ is going to be legal everywhere. Well maybe not everywhere, but all the best places will legalize it.