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NEWS FETCH – November 4, 2013

TOP NEWS Fake wine now accounts for 20% of global wine sales Bronco, Vino Farms, Gallo Lead List Of Top 25 Grape Growers Beringer & The Morgan Stanley Report Arbor Mist: First Wine Brand To Get 1 Million Fans Consumers to dine out less in 2014 CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Charles Bacigalupi, influential grape grower and dentist […]

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NEWS FETCH – November 1, 2013

TOP NEWS 4 HONEST Charts That Debunk The Shortage Hype California 2013 Vintage Set To Equal 2012 Abundance Restaurants Gloomy After Rocky Sept French winemaker fined for smuggling illegal pesticides Wine Industry Leaders Confident About Global Economy U.S. Wines Grow 6% Off-Premise in October A happy reader writes: “The community is abuzz about this book:” […]

November 1, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

iAm iVery iSorry for iMy iLate iReplies – Thanks Apple (NOT!)

To each of you who has sent me one of the 113 (as of right now) emails waiting to be returned, or news that needs to be included in News Fetch: iAm iVery iSorry for iMy iLate iReplies I have had serious computer problems since I upgraded my 2012 MacBookPro to the new Mavericks operating […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – October 31, 2013

TOP NEWS BofA Throws Beringer Under Bus, Urges Treasury To Divest ASAP Wine “Shortage” Is Bull: Here’s Why After years of delay, House and Senate negotiators meet on farm bill How China Became An Unlikely Wine Superpower HARVEST 2013 Washington’s record harvest nearly complete Napa Harvest: Tricks and Treats Idaho Grape Harvest Near End Etna […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

BofA/Merrill Lynch’s Love Affair With Treasury Wine Australia

While Bank of America/Merrill Lynch can’t wait to see Beringer vanish beyond the distant horizon of a planet in another solar system, the Australian operation has found favor at the center of the banker’s heart. (See related article: BofA Throws Beringer Under Bus, Urges Treasury To Divest ASAP No Global Wine Shortages: The Real Data […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

BofA Throws Beringer Under Bus, Urges Treasury To Divest ASAP

Throwing a company under the bus seems like an odd way to kick off an asset sale, but that’s what Bank of America./Merrill Lynch seems to be doing with the U.S. assets of Treasury Wine Estates. On the other hand, it could work well especially if you have two other major brokerages — Citi and […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Wine “Shortage” Is Bull: Here’s Why

The widely touted global wine “shortage” arises from naivety among Citi and Morgan Stanley analysts and their failure to assess the global industry as a whole — especially the agriculture and vineyard aspects (Reality Check: Global Wine Supply & Gullible Brokerage Analysts). Analysts may also have been fed partial information by their sources as part […]

October 31, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – October 30, 2013

TOP NEWS Amazon selling wine in China CA Gov Vetoes: “Serve a Minor” Felony Penalty Bill NY Issues Survey re Proposed “At Rest” Legislation Tough Job Ahead For Farm Bill Conferees HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY NZ wine exports on rise after record harvest World Wine Shortage? NOT! Pay for your own wine? Then your best […]

October 30, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – October 29, 2013

TOP NEWS World Wine Production Seen at 7-Year High Reality Check: Global Wine Supply & Gullible Brokerage Analysts Italian vintners look abroad as home sales slump Four new AVAs approved in California Farm Bill Isn’t Only Ag Policy Focus This Winter HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY World’s Vineyard Shrinks But Production Shows Rise German Wine Output […]

October 29, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Reality Check: Global Wine Supply & Gullible Brokerage Analysts

Here we have it again: the latest “shortage” jeremiad  among the big brokerage analysts: First it was Citi (No Winegrape Shortage: Citi Report Sloppy, Based On Bad Data) and now Morgan Stanley (Global wine production decreases, says Morgan Stanley). And derivative stuff like this: A global wine shortage could soon be upon us. It’s what […]

October 29, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More