Wine Enthusiast Companies Launches Production Division and Premieres New Episodic Series on Prime Video

VALHALLA, N.Y., Jan. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Wine Enthusiast Companies, New York based publisher of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, is celebrating the launch of its production division; Wine Enthusiast Media, with the premier of It Starts With Wine on Prime Video on January 4th.

"By launching our production division, we've taken a big step to stay ahead of the curve in content creation and audience relevance," explains Executive Producer and Wine Enthusiast SVP Jay Spaleta.

The division's initial production, It Starts With Wine, is an episodic series that travels the globe following top winemakers, growers, producers and personalities, along with prominent chefs and celebrities, offering viewers an inside look at the people, locations, cuisines and cultures that surround the wine lifestyle.

Wine Enthusiast has not yet officially announced what other projects may be in the works, only saying that additional episodes and concepts are currently in-development.

"Wine Enthusiast Companies' two greatest strengths have been a willingness to innovate and having a broad reach in two complementary business verticals," Spaleta continued to explain. "The foresight of Adam and Sybil Strum when they founded the company forty-years ago was prescient. The symbiotic nature of content driving wine accessory sales and wine accessory sales driving reader engagement has been a pillar of our long-term success." 

"Engagement has been our secret sauce, the key to five straight years of record revenue for our print division. We've watched our audience evolve, increasingly they find us in new places like search and social media."

"A key to Wine Enthusiast's continued growth and leadership in wine and lifestyle content is understanding that evolution and creating and distributing engaging content in the channels where our audience is spending their viewing time."

Wine Enthusiast Media is simultaneously releasing episodes I, II and III of It Starts With Wine for viewers binge-watching pleasure. The series is now available on Amazon Prime Video in North America and the UK, and Vimeo's On Demand premium video service globally.

About Wine Enthusiast:

Wine Enthusiast Media creates innovative long and short-format content in the wine, spirits, travel and lifestyle categories. Wine Enthusiast Media is the production division of Wine Enthusiast Companies founded in 1979, and publisher of Wine Enthusiast magazine. 

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