Video of the 2012 Keynote Address presented by David Blum, Managing Director of Ozone Online:

Thank you for a great event this year! Please check back in the summer of 2012 for information on the 2013 event.

The Direct to Consumer Wine Symposium is the wine industry's premier summit on direct wine marketing and sales.

Past symposia have attracted a standing room only crowd of more than 400 attendees, a sold-out trade show, as well as guests and speakers from across the United States. This Symposium draws an ever larger group of vintners, winery associations and suppliers willing to share strategies and tactics that help wineries grow their businesses. The fifth annual event was held on January 18 and 19, 2012 in San Francisco.

Why Attend? This is the national wine industry’s only annual conference on direct marketing and sales -- a must-attend event for every level in the company, and the only summit organized by vintners, for vintners.

Why Return? The Steering Committee constantly reinvents the Program. Thought-provoking Keynote speeches, relevant workshops providing useful ideas, and legislative updates on H.R. 5034 and state priorities are all in store.

The symposium is presented by and a fundraiser for Free the Grapes! and Coalition for Free Trade. These two organizations have worked with industry representatives and winery associations to increase the market for winery-to-consumer shipping from 17 to 37 states since 1997.

About Free The Grapes!
Free the Grapes! is a national movement of wineries, consumers and retailers whose goal is to augment, not replace, the three-tier system with legal, regulated direct shipments.

About Coalition For Free Trade
Founded in 1997, the Coalition for Free Trade is a 501(c)3 non-profit legal foundation whose goal is to legalize direct-to-consumer shipments of wine from out-of-state wineries and retailers in those states where it is currently prohibited.

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