Every year at the Wine Financial Symposium Robert Smiley, PhD, the director of wine studies at UC Davis, releases the results of a survey given to the ceos of leading wine and distribution companies to take their temperature on the state of the industry. This year, some of the participants included: Brian Vos from The Wine Group, Corey Beck from Francis Ford Coppola, Rick Tigner from Kendall Jackson, and Mel Dick from Southern Wine & Spirits, among many others.