Jon Fredrikson Quotes (10 Quotes)

Middle age is when you drink wine.... That combined with the health message means that you get a lot of aging baby boomers with coins in their pockets that are out to buy better quality wine.

If we continue to grow at just 3 percent through the end of the decade, we will be the largest wine consumer nation in the world.

The most likely buyer is someone who wants to have a luxury place in the Napa Valley and a prestigious wine label to go with it.

They've just become so much less intimidating and more approachable, especially to people who don't drink wine.

Wine is enjoying this wonderful moment of very favorable attitudes.

From the perspective of 3 decades in the wine industry, I can assure you right now that things have never been better in this market and the future looks outstanding.

We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.

Constellation continues to be so far ahead of everybody else in terms of keen financial expertise in acquiring entities after all of these years. It's such a contrast to the other big success, Gallo, which never purchased anything until the last five years, and its acquisitions have been relatively small, building organically.

My guess is that it's a private person, not a wine company looking to expand its portfolio.

We have so much folderol in the business that it does turn off a lot of potential consumers.