{"id":5770,"date":"2014-03-09T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:29:24","slug":"the-wine-business-is-ripe-for-disruption-and-this-man-is-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5770","title":{"rendered":"The wine business is ripe for disruption, and this man is doing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/181978\/naked-wines-wine-is-ripe-for-disruption-and-this-man-is-doing-it\/\">Jason Karaian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are only two important people in the wine business\u2014the winemaker and the wine drinker. Right now, they\u2019re both getting screwed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Gormley doesn\u2019t mince words. The founder of Naked Wines, part venture capital firm and part wholesale buying club, has little time for the wine industry\u2019s traditional ways. This might be because he\u2019s an accountant by training. But his background belies a deep appreciation for wine, and a missionary\u2019s zeal for rewriting the rules of how the product gets from grape to glass. He thinks he can apply his financial background and some fresh thinking to shake up the established order in an old-fashioned, exclusive, and often incestuous industry. So far, it seems to be working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Karaian: \u201cThere are only two important people in the wine business\u2014the winemaker and the wine drinker. Right now, they\u2019re both getting screwed.\u201d Rowan Gormley doesn\u2019t mince words. The founder of Naked Wines, part venture capital firm and part wholesale buying club, has little time for the wine industry\u2019s traditional ways. This might be because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}