Greetings Friends! We would love to call your attention to a recent interview from Subkit at Go Solo, featuring our very own Trapeze Artist, Sariya Jarasviroj Brown. Subkit is a platform dedicated to giving voice to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Subkit “helps regular everyday people go solo and achieve work independence on their own […]
Circo Vino and the Wine Industry need your help! Dear Friends, Colleagues and Wine Lovers, The United States Trade Representative (USTR,) is once again threatening to impose tariffs on imported wine. These tariffs harm American businesses and threaten tens of thousands of American jobs. The tariffs could be put in place as early […]
Wine & Spirits colleagues and friends, amid the global Covid-19 pandemic and the United States’ epidemic of racism, we have not forgotten to keep our ears to the ground and our eyes on the prize when it comes to U.S. tariffs on imported wine. The 25% percent tariffs instituted in October 2019, still remain. […]
“Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away…no matter what they tell you.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton We are irrecoverably changed since the worldwide spread of COVID-19. While all of us at Circo Vino and our Winery Partners, both in the US and abroad remain physically safe, the specter of this […]
Harry Root, importer and distributor based in South Carolina, has taken it upon himself to lobby on behalf of the wine industry as a whole in Washington DC. His tireless efforts are not without cost, and he has set up a GoFundMe page where you can donate to help the cause. Circo Vino supports Harry’s efforts […]
Although news of an accord between France’s President Macron and U.S. President Trump hit the headlines today – this was in sole regards to halting a proposed 100% U.S. tariff on sparkling wine from France related to the Digital Service Tax. This is good news! Yet, the looming, proposed 100% U.S. tariff to all wines […]
Pictured Above: Sariya, with Damien Casten (left), owner of Candid Wines, our Distributor Partner in Illinois with winemaker Michael Malat (middle) of Austria. WE HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT E.S.T. TO HELP STOP 100% US TARIFFS ON WINE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION. This is now a personal appeal: My name is Sariya (rhymes with Maria). I am […]
THREE DAYS LEFT TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD – STOP THE TARIFFS! As of this morning, there are over 17,500 comments posted to the #USTR-2019-0003-2518 open docket regarding the proposed tariffs, up to 100 percent, on European wines. The majority of what we see is mobilization from food and beverage industry professionals. THANK YOU, KEEP THE […]
“But when from a long distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping […]
In days long past, the gathering of the harvest was a raucous occasion. Pan walked the earth, Dionysus frolicked in the forest with his Bacchanites, magic was afoot! With winter approaching and lacking the modern convenience of long-term food storage, erstwhile children of summer used feasting holidays following harvesting time to fatten up for many […]