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NEWS FETCH – January 30, 2014

TOP NEWS Wine Grape Supply Solid Says Allied Grape Growers Treasury Wine Decline Could Force Calif Asset Sales (Scroll Down For More TWE links) Farm bill passes House Is China Really The Top Red Wine Drinker? VinTank: Now in your pocket Craft Distilleries Grow From Embryonic Stage [Sponsored Link] MORE FROM UNIFIED SYMPOSIUM U.S. Price […]

January 30, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Allied Grape Growers Looks At 2014’s Supply Side

Allied Grape Growers President Nat DiBuduo presented the supply side of the Unified Symposium’s “State of the Industry” on Wednesday. You can access his full Powerpoint presentation at this link. Nat’s presentation has all the details, but briefly, here are six of his 38 slides. (You can get a larger image of by clicking on […]

January 29, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – January 29, 2014

TOP NEWS Calif Drought Burns $5 Billion Hole Chinese become world’s top tipplers of red wine New Almond Disease Can Be Devastating Saralee Kunde Dies at 66 Craft Distilleries Grow From Embryonic Stage [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Bartenders In Gloves: Sanitation Overkill? Trinchero Family Estates aims to ‘get back in black’ in UK Warm weather […]

January 29, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – January 28, 2014

TOP NEWS Feds Can Legally Seize San Luis Reservoir Water During Drought China, New downgrade Behind Treasury Wine Estates halt Farm Bill almost here Wine & Grape Symposium Opens CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Drought Makes Santa Ynez Valley Lake Vanish Is water banking in SLO County’s future? North SLO County growers consider removing old grapevines amid drought […]

January 28, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – January 27, 2014

TOP NEWS Napa Lawsuits Snarl Chinese Tycoon’s Howell Mtn Land Buy Allied Grape Growers Places Its Bets On California 2014 13,000+ expected for Unified Wine Symposium 2014 SVB Wine Report: Webcast, Q&A Smoke taint costing Aussie wine industry millions 2013 China wine import stats show France versus everyone Winebow CEO Jon Moramarco To Depart Craft […]

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

Napa Lawsuits Snarl Chinese Tycoon’s Howell Mtn Land Buy

A Chinese tycoon with prominent global winery and vineyard holdings is still waiting to buy a substantial piece of Napa Valley’s Howell Mountain, thanks to a deal gone sour between Pacific Union College (PUC) and an Atlanta real estate developer. Court records indicate that the deal, in which the developer was to spin off part […]

January 27, 2014 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Allied Grape Growers Places Its Bets On California 2014

Among other news, Allied Grape Growers has handicapped the 2014 season in the latest issue of its newsletter. Direct excerpts from the newsletter, below: COASTAL REGION: THUMBS UP All things considered, we anticipate that coastal regions will experience a mostly stable market, based largely on an anticipated decrease in production due to water/weather challenges and […]

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

NEWS FETCH – January 24, 2014

TOP NEWS Argentine Peso Crash: Cheap(er) Malbec Tsunami On Way To US Shelves Calif warns that drought may affect water rights 2013 Direct Wine To Consumer Shipping Hits $1.57B No Modesto Water For San Francisco, for now Hot weather brings on Aussie grape harvest Protecting Intellectual Property in Your Brand [Sponsored Link] CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Unified […]

January 24, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

2013 Direct Wine To Consumer Shipping Hits $1.57B

News Release: January 23, 2013 (Boulder, COLORADO)—Winery-to-consumer direct shipments of wine grew to $1.57 Billion dollars in 2013 according to a report released today prepared by ShipCompliant and Wines & Vines. The new report, based on millions of transactions from calendar year 2013, also detected the first reduction in average price per bottle of wine […]

January 24, 2014 | Filed under News Briefs,Worth A Look | Read More

Argentine Peso Crash: Cheap(er) Could Flood US Shelves

If you thought that Malbec was cannibalizing your wine sales, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The Argentine Peso went off the rails this week — 16% in the last two days — and is going to make affordable Malbec and other Argentine wines even more affordable than ever. The chart below shows this week’s plunge. […]

January 23, 2014 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More