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Case Study · 01 Penfolds · 2018

The icon, unburied.

Repositioning a 175-year-old Australian icon as the luxury house it actually is — not the bottle next to the kangaroo.

Brief → Penfolds House & Best Dressed Somm
The Work

A fully integrated digital, experiential, and PR platform. A 3-day NYC mansion takeover. An Instagram competition that turned the trade into the campaign.

RFID-tracked tastings, intimate trade dinners, a Best Dressed Somm contest that flooded the feed with the right faces, and a sales blitz that turned attention into placements.

The story wasn't "Australian wine." The story was a 175-year-old house that had been quietly running the country's finest red wine program since before California had a wine industry.

Watch the campaign: Penfolds House recap →
115%
YoY sales lift
7.4M
Earned impressions
3
Day NYC mansion takeover
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Gold Reggie · Best digital
Recognition Gold Reggie · Beverage Dynamics' Best Digital Campaign · Featured in Wine & Spirits 2018 — 2019
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Case Study · 02 19 Crimes · 2017–2019

The label that talked back.

Turning a quirky $10 wine into the fastest-growing wine brand in America by giving its convicts a voice — literally.

Brief → Living Wine Labels AR launch
The Work

An augmented reality app that let every label come alive and tell its convict's story. The bottles became the campaign.

Strategy, brand voice, and launch architecture for the first AR-activated wine label in the U.S. market. Every label became a portal — point your phone at it and the convict on the bottle started telling you their crime.

Within 24 months, 19 Crimes was the fastest-growing wine brand in America by dollar volume.

500%
Brand awareness lift
#1
Fastest-growing wine brand · US
1M+
App downloads
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Effie + Shorty awards
Recognition Effie Gold · Shorty Award · Adweek Brand Genius · Drinks Business Innovator of the Year 2017 — 2019
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Case Study · 03 Beaulieu Vineyard · 2019

A $1,500 magnum that sold out.

Repositioning Napa's first great cabernet house — and proving the luxury tier still had room at the top.

Brief → Georges de Latour reserve launch
The Work

A reserve-tier launch built on the founder's actual story — the man who kept BV alive through prohibition by selling sacramental wine to the Catholic Church.

Editorial-grade brand book, intimate on-premise dinners in six markets, and a magnum allocation released to the trade before the public. No paid media. No discount play. The bottle did the work.

Six months after launch, the entire allocation had sold and BV Georges de Latour landed on Wine Spectator's Top 100 — back in the conversation it had been quietly absent from for a decade.

Watch the campaign: Georges de Latour 80th →
$1.5k
Per magnum, retail
6mo
To sell out allocation
Top 100
Wine Spectator listing
0
Dollars of paid media
Recognition Wine & Spirits "Top 100 Wineries" · Robb Report Best of the Best · Decanter cover feature 2019
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Case Study · 04 Bhang · Cannabis

From fairly enjoyable to ridiculously fun.

A legacy cannabis brand going stale after a decade. We re-excavated the essence, rebuilt the system around it, and put a "Bhite Me" voice on the bottle.

Brief → Bhang · repositioning & brand voice
The Work

Refined the brand essence to "transform the fairly enjoyable into the ridiculously fun." New packaging, new social voice, and a "Bh" wordplay that turned the legacy name into a handle.

Interviewed accounts and consumers to find the truth underneath the marketing. The category had drifted into wellness language — earnest, beige, indistinguishable. Bhang's actual customers wanted permission to enjoy themselves.

So we gave the brand its mouth back. Repositioned around fun, not function. Built the packaging, the trade pitch, and the social voice around it. Month one in market: 48% volume lift, 25% account growth.

48%
Month-1 volume lift
25%
Month-1 account growth
10+
Years legacy brand
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Repositioning, no relaunch
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A partial list of brands and houses across two decades.
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19 Crimes
Beaulieu Vineyard
Mission Hill Family Estate
Cîroc
Captain Morgan
Matua
Diageo
Treasury Wine Estates
The Mark Anthony Group
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