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Lewis Perdue is an entrepreneur, technologist, scientist, professor, author, publisher, journalist, and outdoorsman. Click here for more on Lew. Email Lew at: lewis[dot]perdue[at]wineindustryinsight[dot]com

NEWS FETCH – April 4, 2014

TOP NEWS Silverado Premium Properties & Winegrowers Sold To TIAA-CREF Pew Survey: Wine More Dangerous than Cocaine, LSD, Pot Uneven economic recovery challenges restaurants Gallo, Trinchero, Ste. Michelle Get Technomic Awards What To Cover When You Meet Your Distributor? [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS County planners approve Rombauer expansion Local, long-term drought relief may get state […]

April 4, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Silverado Premium Properties & Winegrowers Sold To TIAA-CREF

Only the best of corporate transitions can go so smoothly that no one notices. That seems to have happened with the sale of Silverado Premium Properties LLC and Silverado Winegrowers Holdings LLC: the biggest wine industry sale that almost everyone missed. Almost everyone, except for Michael Fritz of Farmland Letter who, on May 24, 2012, […]

April 4, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – April 3, 2014

TOP NEWS West Coast port strike threat imperils wine shipments Wine pricing confused by poor reporting Earthquake in Chile Spares Wine Regions Farm Bureau Blasts EPA Water Proposal Wall-E Has vine time with Oregon wine China not the El Dorado Aussies Thought What To Cover When You Meet Your Distributor? [Sponsored Link] HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE […]

April 3, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – April 2, 2014

TOP NEWS American AgCredit loans grow in 2013 Dampened customer traffic continues to affect restaurants Why no wine online in Mass.? A year of falls for the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Are Alcohol Ads Targeting Kids? Century Council Gets New Name What To Cover When You Meet Your Distributor? [Sponsored Link] HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY […]

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NEWS FETCH – April 1, 2014

TOP NEWS Judge slashes damages for billionaire Koch in fake wine case Change of venue sought for Paso Robles groundwater lawsuit Foreigners Holding U.S. Ag Acreage Due to Report Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link] MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Foley Buys Four Graces, Black Family Esates & Doe Ridge […]

April 1, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 31, 2014

TOP NEWS Your Winery Could Be Worth Less Than You Think Bordeaux to invest €20m in wooing trade and consumers Santa Barbara, Bordeaux, Bourgogne/Chablis Sign Place Name Pact Farm Credit Assns Pledge $100K For Cal Drought Hunger Relief Jailed after buying water in AlcoSting, Student sues Va for $40m Are You Really Ready To Pitch […]

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NEWS FETCH – March 28, 2014

TOP NEWS Australia’s Drought: Lessons for California Chumash May Triple Size Of Santa Ynez Resort Support builds for huge reservoir near Lake County Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link] HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Argentina winemakers facing difficult 2014 vintage “Grape Disaster” Declared For Finger Lakes Wine Region CALIFORNIA […]

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NEWS FETCH – March 27, 2014

TOP NEWS Tied House Laws: Alive and Kicking 2014 Trends for the US Wine Industry EPA To Clarify Limits of Water Oversight; Provide Ag Exemptions Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Lake County 2013 Winegrape Harvest Bucks State Trend A Who’s Who List on the California […]

March 27, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 26, 2014

TOP NEWS Global wine industry gambles on North America and China NY Liquor Board Closes, Fines Eataly $500K (Lesson: Don’t Make Wine) Judge halts pumping, exporting Tulare groundwater Calif hopes emergency barriers in Delta will protect against salinity Are You Really Ready To Pitch A Distributor: Here’s Your Checklist [Sponsored Link] HARVEST 2014/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY […]

March 26, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Finally! A Use For Politicians In The Vineyard

This link — Grape growers turn attention to wind machines –made me realize that all that climate-change-causing hot air from politicians could finally be put to good use. Since water is in short supply for vineyard frost protection and wind machines are expensive to buy and operate (all that electricity or propane), why not put […]

March 26, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More