D2 Wine Business WSET Flashcards
What factors that are influence the price of a bottle of wine?
- Cost of growing grapes
- producing the wine
- getting it to the end to consumer
And also price impact by supply and demand.
As well as an agricultural product - wine production level - subject to weather
What is supply and demand?
Supply - is amount of good or service (wine) available for sale
Demand - willingness of consumer to buy a (wine) good or service
Demand for wine affected by?
- social
- economic
- legislative
- political factors
What is disposable income?
amount of money a person has after paying tax
Loi Evin is what?
France 1991 introduced law that prohibit advertising of alcoholic drinks
Supply of wine affected by?
- production
- legislation
Prices that affect the price of a bottle of wine - costs through the supply chain? (8)
- Grape growing costs
- Winemaking costs
- Transportation costs
- Importation costs
- Sales costs
- Marketing costs
- The impact of legislation on the cost of wine
- The impact of fluctuations in currency on the cost of wine
What is supply chain?
Supply chain is a network of organisations and activities involved from the creation of a product through to its distribution and sale to the final consumer.
First stage of supply chain?
grape growing
Cost of growing the grapes can be broken down to?
Capital cost
Operating cost
What is capital cost?
money spent in acquiring, improving or maintaining long-term assets such as land, buildings and equipment.
What is operating cost ?
day-to-day costs relating to producing and packaging wine.
What is depreciation?
the reduction of value of assets over time based on their useful life
Grape growing cost affect the price of a bottle?
How?
- Vineyard establishment
Capital costs, inculde:
1.1. surveying the land
1.2. Site clearance (removing vegetation, large rocks)
1.3. building access roads
1.4. buying and planting vines
1.5. buying stakes and wires for trellising
1.6. if site badly draining - installation of draiange system
1.7. In dry areas - establishing irrigation
1.8. Protection against weather hazards (windbreaks, frost)
1.9. Protection against animal pests (fences, netting)
1.10. Buying machinery and equipment - Vineyard management
Costs are:
2.1. Labour
2.2. Machinery and fuel
2.3. Supplies (materials for trellising, pruning)
2.4. Vineyard treatments
2.5. water
2.6. Electricity
2.7. Insurance and depreciation
Winemaking cost affect the price of a bottle of wine?
This also can be broken in capital cost and operating costs.
1. Winery establishment
2. Winemaking cost
1.1. Land
1.2 Building the winery
1.3. Fitting it with equipment (press, tanks, pipes, pumps, refrigeration, maturation vessels, bottling line)
2.1. Grape growing cost (see above)
2.2. Labour
2.3. Machinery and equipment running cost (fuel, electricity, amintenance)
2.4. winery materials - sugar for enrichment, cultured yeast, acid for acidification etc)
2.5. water (for cleaning)
2.6. Electricity (refrigeration, ventilation etc)
2.7 Maturation (storage space, vessels, labour, lost of cashflow)
2.8. Packaging (own bottling line, bottles, closures, lavels, cartons, pallets, labout, etc)
2.9. Depreciation - company may budget for the replacement costs of equipment
Transportation cost?
- Transportation in the bottle
- Bulk transportation
- Insurance
Importation cost?
Labelling law in different countries (alcohol level, health warning etc)
or producer can employ distributor (make it easier for him) to deal with foreign market
Sales cost? (6)
- Property cost (rent or buy retail shop, bar or restaurant)
- Labour
- Equipment & materials
- Storage cost
- Delivery cost
- margin at the point of sale
Marketing cost?
- Labour
- Design and production of bottles and labels
- Marketing campaign
How to mitigate the currency effect?
- Options
- Fixing the price in the currency of the importer at the date of ordering
- Buying currency to cover specific orders
- Entering a contract to fix the exchange rate
- Trading in USD/EUR
- Opening a foreign currency account in a local bank
- Opening account in overseas bank
What are plus and minus of ladder brand?
plus - ladder brand intended to give consumers easy-to-understand ‘rungs’ to help them trade up to a higher-priced and better-quality expression of the brand. The whole range benefits from the identity of the most prestigious expression of the brand.
minus - it work less well with by low-involvement consumers. This is because, only few people will know about most prestigious wine. In the worst case situation, the image of the entire ladder is based on the accessible wine (and aspiration wine will be look like an overpriced).
Plus and minus of soft brand?
A term used to describe any cue by a consumer when choosing to buy one product in preference to another.
In the wine industry this could be a country (Australia), region (Rioja), GI (Pouilly Fume), grape name (Merlot) or even style of wine (oaked chardonnay).
Plus - many GI is being created largely for marketing purposes (AVA in USA). Like Pouilly Fume - small producers can not have brand name to be well-known so they can use “Pouilly Fume” name (can benefit from Pouilly Fume reputation).
2. Building trust and consumer perception (which need well planning).
Minus - some marketing professionals dont consider them as brand.
How to describe brand type (or aspects of branding) in wine industry?
- Brand position (price point)
- Private label (supermarkets or restaurants, ex. Marks and Spencer)
- Ladder brand (accessible, stretch, aspiration)
- Soft brand (GI, region, grape, wine style)
- Luxury brand (super-premium)
Wine intelligence US portraits 2018 (6)?
- Engaged explorers
- Premium brand suburbans
- Contented treaters
- Social newbies
- Senior bargain hunters
- Kitchen casuals
Engaged explorers
younger drinkers, part of their lifestyle and social life, shops wineries
Premium brand suburbans
very knowledgable, often bulk to get value
Contented treaters
infrequent but high spending drinkers, liquor store or wine shops
Social newbies
newest segment, social, so many wine buying channels)
Senior Bargain Hunter
very rare segment, supermarket, value driven, not good knowledge
Kitchen casuals
very rare drinking, dont understand much about wine, price-conscious, supermarket.
Impact of legislation costs various types tax, duties, trade barriers, subsidies, minimum pricing, labelling laws?
Some countries have “bonded warehouse” - they only release wine only when it sold, and pay duty - cashflow situation.
Some countries have trade agreement - better pricing, example Chile and South Africa with EU.
So meaning that USA wine can not compete with Chile and SA for price, so better not to list in the EU market.
Estate advantages and disadvantages?
Estate producers - produces wine exclusively from their own vineyards.
Adv:
1. Maintain control over entire process
2. profit from production belongs to estate
3. marketing benefit (estate bottled etc)
Disadvantages:
1. cost of managing the vineyard, winery
2. Difficult vintage (small volume of wine)