The Direct to Consumer Symposium is the wine industry's premiere summit on direct marketing and sales. The inaugural event last May attracted a standing room only crowd of more than 250 attendees, a sold-out trade show, as well as guests and speakers from across the United States.

The second annual Direct to Consumer Symposium drew an even larger group of vintners, winery associations and suppliers willing to share strategies and tactics that will help wineries grow their businesses. The symposium is presented by Coalition for Free Trade and Free the Grapes! two organizations that have worked with industry lobbyists to increase the market for legal direct-to-consumer wine shipments.

About Free The Grapes!
Free the Grapes! is a national, grassroots coalition of thousands of wineries and 300,000 wine consumers 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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