![Springboard Wine Co., the pioneering women-owned wine distribution company born in Marin, is now picking up local liquor products for distribution. Changing their name to Springboard Wine and Spirits Co., the company now represents 10 different craft and local producers.Small-batch liquor producers will tell you that the two hardest things of starting out in the […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-0612-01.jpg?w=117 "Springboard Wine Co., the pioneering women-owned wine distribution company born in Marin, is now picking up local liquor products for distribution. Changing their name to Springboard Wine and Spirits Co., the company now represents 10 different craft and local producers.Small-batch liquor producers will tell you that the two hardest things of starting out in the […]")
Marin-born Springboard Wine expands to spirits
Springboard Wine Co., the pioneering women-owned wine distribution company born in Marin, is now picking up local liquor products for distribution. Changing their name to Springboard Wine and Spirits Co.,...
![Today is the last day of January. But more importantly, it is the last day of Dry January, a monthlong no-drinking tradition that has taken hold in the 21st century. And if you’ve made it this far, perhaps you can go a little farther. The nonalcoholic drink market alone now exceeds $11 billion a year. […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-0131-02-2.jpg?w=117 "Today is the last day of January. But more importantly, it is the last day of Dry January, a monthlong no-drinking tradition that has taken hold in the 21st century. And if you’ve made it this far, perhaps you can go a little farther. The nonalcoholic drink market alone now exceeds $11 billion a year. […]")
![“I feel very sad, because I’m actually an old beer guy,” says Dan Leese, president and chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co. “I started with Stroh’s brewery up in Detroit, back in 1981. I was sort of a beer industry junkie, a novice historian, and I always loved Anchor. So, I felt […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-0719-02.jpg?w=132 "“I feel very sad, because I’m actually an old beer guy,” says Dan Leese, president and chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co. “I started with Stroh’s brewery up in Detroit, back in 1981. I was sort of a beer industry junkie, a novice historian, and I always loved Anchor. So, I felt […]")
![The Elk Fence Distillery was conceived in West Marin. It’s run by two people who live there and its name is a reference to the Tomales Point “elk fence” bordering a field where they once grew barley. It’s about as West Marin as you can get, except for one thing: It’s in Santa Rosa. When […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-0412-01.jpeg?w=111 "The Elk Fence Distillery was conceived in West Marin. It’s run by two people who live there and its name is a reference to the Tomales Point “elk fence” bordering a field where they once grew barley. It’s about as West Marin as you can get, except for one thing: It’s in Santa Rosa. When […]")
![The ready-to-drink market segment is booming. According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, sales for ready-to-drink products nationwide increased by 42.3% in 2021, to the tune of a whopping $1.6 billion. And while the category remains loosely defined, 55% of those sales are in spirits-based products. But the other 45% is expanding, […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-1109-02.jpg?w=140 "The ready-to-drink market segment is booming. According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, sales for ready-to-drink products nationwide increased by 42.3% in 2021, to the tune of a whopping $1.6 billion. And while the category remains loosely defined, 55% of those sales are in spirits-based products. But the other 45% is expanding, […]")
![“When we were getting started, what we heard a lot was that people would walk into a store and look at a shelf of wines and have no idea how to make a decision that was right for them,” says Kendra Kawala, a co-founder of Novato’s Maker Wine. “As a proxy for quality, people often […]](https://www.siliconvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MIJ-L-BURKHART-COL-0202-02.jpg?w=132 "“When we were getting started, what we heard a lot was that people would walk into a store and look at a shelf of wines and have no idea how to make a decision that was right for them,” says Kendra Kawala, a co-founder of Novato’s Maker Wine. “As a proxy for quality, people often […]")