Readers Respond: Summer a Mixed Bag

Dear Client:Summer is pretty much over leaving some in the wine and spirits biz with the summertime blues – and we don’t mean the kind associated with back to school. Instead, summer was a mixed bag for the industry with a large group reporting moderate to dismal sales, while others reported flat sales (which is the new “up”), or slight growth. We got a huge response from our readers in our latest “Gauging the Industry” survey which tells us that