Small Wine Producers Are Being Shut Out of Restaurant Sales

The restaurant industry has had it rough in the last year, and in turn so have restaurant wine sales. In 2016 Technomic projected wine sales in restaurants at just 2% growth, and expects the actual number to be even lower due to the further drop in same-store sales and traffic, per Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) State of the Industry report.Looking at the decline in restaurant wine sales from the consumer perspective, SVB's Rob McMillan claims that for millennials, it's simply