Banfi Talks Overcoming Challenges with Fresh Ideas

At around $150 million in sales, 2016 was a challenging year for Banfi Vintners, and co-ceo Cristina Mariani-May makes no excuses for it. "I'd love to sit here and say It's all been roses. Well, it hasn't," she tells WSD. But the company "is working overtime, just like most people" to maintain stable numbers for 2017, and jumpstart growth going forward.Right now, the focus is supporting the brands that brought it to the dance--Castello Banfi and Riunite Lambrusco--but infusing some