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NEWS FETCH – October 2, 2013

TOP NEWS Top 5 Ways To Use A Wine Shut Down To Your Advantage (scroll down for more wine shutdown links) The Wine & Health Hot Button No One Wants To Touch HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Most Ore. wine grapes survived record rain Harvest 2013: “Slownoma Coast” Finish Line in Sight Heavy rain in Douro […]

October 2, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

The Wine & Health Hot Button No One Wants To Touch

Add these up: Are You A Drunk? And Don’t Know it? + Smaller Wine Glass Key to Curbing Consumption + French Paradox = Too Hot To Handle! Really? The French Paradox  confuses people. In a sentence, decades of studies have continually confirmed that moderate consumers of alcohol of all types (not just wine) live longer, […]

October 2, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – October 1, 2013

TOP NEWS China’s growing interest in Californian wine Why The French Wine Pesticides DO Matter Restauranteurs pessimistic on sales, economy Can you bank on Asia’s investment in fine wine? USDA Reports Foreign Ownership Up By 1 Million Acres Shutdown Issues Hold Farm Bill Hostage Cornell Specialty Crops Research Gets USDA Funding HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY […]

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

Why The French Wine Pesticides DO Matter

My friend, Dan Berger, has written his latest column on why the pesticide levels recently found in French wines really don’t matter (So-called ‘toxic wine’). Dan’s point is that the levels of the chemicals found in wine are so small, they couldn’t even be measured a few years ago. And for that reason, they’re not […]

October 1, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – September 30, 2013

TOP NEWS No Wine Among Most Valuable Beverage Brands Wine Inventory Up, Grape Prices Down Bordeaux Exports: China Down But U.S. On The Rise American AgCredit grows by lending to farms Farm Bill Slips Away…For Now HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Organic Wine Growers Fear Grape Glut After Rain, NW winemakers, grape growers must wait Southern […]

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

NEWS FETCH – September 27, 2013

TOP NEWS Treasury Wine Is Shopping Beringer & Everybody Wants It (And Maybe All Of TWE As Well) US – Wine consumption continues to gain strength French Govt NeoDrys Mull Repressive Wine Regs Cal Vineyard Expansion May Be Stymied By Lack Of Water HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY – Scroll to bottom for video (Beaujolais) Showers […]

September 27, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Treasury Wine Is Shopping Beringer & Everybody Wants It (And Maybe All Of TWE As Well)

The question is not who wants to buy Beringer — the prime mover in Treasury Wine Estates’ U.S. operation — but who doesn’t. While hints of a Beringer sale have been drifting in the wind for months (some sources say, years) a frenzy of current emails has swamped Wine Industry Insight’s email inbox and indicates […]

September 27, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – September 26, 2013

TOP NEWS Constellation Spending $20 Mil To Boost Calif Capacity Southern Loses in Missouri Treasury Debacle Proof That Screwing Consumers Won’t Work US Wine Battles Beer And Spirits For Throat Share Can Ag Do Better than Crop Insurance? French Wine Test Finds Pesticides in Each of 92 Bottles Analyzed HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY – Scroll […]

September 26, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NASCAR Good Ole Boys Far More Hip To Social Media Than Wine Biz

All the exclusive vintners and their uber-stylish cult wines can’t hold a social media candle to the good ole boys (and Danica) of NASCAR. Bottom line, NASCAR racing teams see social media conversations as ways to better connect them — and their sponsors. And that means better viewership for races and for sponsors  … and […]

September 25, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – September 25, 2013

TOP NEWS Truett-Hurst Shows Small Loss On Soaring Sales SLO County investigating illegal vineyards Ousted Treasury CEO Paid $2.4Mil For Lousy Job Rabobank: U.S. farmland value increases to slow Proposed new Paso Robles AVAs an object lesson The Great Recession: shopping trips down, spend per trip up Crop Insurance and the Agricultural Safety Net HARVEST […]

September 25, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More