Best Athlete: Bourcard Nesin on the RNDC Aftermath and the Great Convergence

Dear Client: The dramatic collapse of the second-largest wine and spirits distributor, RNDC, within the span of a year is definitely among the top 5 of stories we've ever covered in these pages -- maybe in the top 3 (after Inbev purchase of A-B and Molson / Coors merger). And while nobody enjoys a post-mortem, we believe it's important to investigate and discuss how this happened, and as an industry, perhaps look inward in an honest way. To that end,