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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 – February 5, 2014

TOP NEWS Calif drought: More foreign wine imports, higher bulk wine prices Farm Bill: What’s In It For Wine? Russian Vodka Billionaire Aims to Beat Diageo Destructive cork tax could cost NY wine growth UN Says Alcohol & sugar laws needed to stem cancer tidal wave A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? […]

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NEWS FETCH – February 4, 2014

TOP NEWS Restaurant sales, traffic dip in December Satellites show ‘total’ California water storage at near-decade low Ag Groups Put Pressure On Immigration Issue A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Southern Wine & Spirits opens Calif Supply Center San Joaquin River restoration flow stopped early to save water […]

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

Comcast Sandbags News Fetch Again: iPhone/Verizon Save The Day

Comcast crapped out this morning … again! The benchmark screen captures below tell the sad, chronic story. I needed to do today’s entire News Fetch issue using my iPhone/Verizon Personal Hotspot. Scroll down to the next screen caps to see that the bandwidth from the iPhone blows Comcast out of the water despite the fact […]

February 4, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Nor Any Drop To Drink …Looking Outside Our Bubble

You’ll notice that starting today, News Fetch features a number of books (and one DVD just for fun) on water. You will disagree with many of them. Or parts. But, as with the news articles I find and curate, I don’t select them to be pleasing. I select them because they convey useful information AND/OR […]

February 4, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

A Journalist’s View Of Those Slick Emailer Services

You know them as Vertical Response, Mail Chimp, Constant Contact and more. They may be a good way to send chatty newsletters to your wine club or other mailing list, but they hurt you in a lot of ways and they really don’t work for getting news to journalists. Put The Important Items First First […]

February 3, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – February 3, 2014

TOP NEWS Cal State Water Project Cuts Allocation To Zero Wineries More Optimistic Moss Adams Tells Unified Symposium Treasury Wine, Asian Stocks Continue Decline Mendoza And Tuscany Are Top Spots In Vineyard Prices A Stellar Sales Pitch Starts With Only One Thing? [Sponsored Link] DROUGHT/WATER Up to 2 feet of snow expected to fall atop […]

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

Wineries More Optimistic Moss Adams Tells Unified Symposium

In their first full survey since 2009, accounting firm Moss Adams LLP has, over the past month, laid out the significant impacts it has found on growers and vintners. In a presentation at the Unified Symposium last week, the accounting firm said that, while 45% of respondents reported pricing pressures, they were less concerned about […]

February 3, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Hotel WiFi: Bad, Expensive & Rarely Adequate

We work in digitally connected worlds. When the “connected” part meets hotel WiFi, business frequently uffers. And more often than not, it suffers badly whether you pay for faster service or not. This is on my mind having just attended the  Unified Symposium. (Remember, also, that the vast majority of free WiFi hotspots are insecure. […]

February 2, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – January 31, 2014

TOP NEWS Punch-drunk Treasury a prime takeover target Hispanics Top Believers In The American Dream Feds Say They Won’t Steal San Luis Ag Water, Millerton Still Threatened Unified Wine & Grape Symposium Hits New Attendance Record California’s economy should see faster growth Craft Distilleries Grow From Embryonic Stage [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Beer helps drought-stricken […]

January 31, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Good Gawd Almighty! Get To The Point

This is supposed to be a NEWS release about NEW people. Instead, it wanders all around Hell and gone with non-sequiturs and touchy-feely, sorta-visionary-like things that maybe are supposed to give some context of some sort. But all it does is bury the real news and deprive the people involved of respect and the day […]

January 30, 2014 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More