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NEWS FETCH – August 23, 2013

TOP NEWS Treasury: Future Is Building Brands, Not Discounting On-premise beer, wine and spirits off to ugly Q3 OR vineyard land rush shows confidence in the US economy NY Owes Wine Consumers A Place At The Legal Table Calif to lead wine education in China NZ: Caution on wine supply and demand urged CALIFORNIA BRIEFS […]

August 23, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 22, 2013

TOP NEWS Glut Gives Treasury Wine An Earnings Hangover New Paso Website Launched For Winery Investors & Sellers Google Exec Joins Vintners’ Alliance Board California Labor Union Bill Clears Hurdle Jadot Buys Oregon Pinot Noir Vineyard NakedWines.com Puts $10 Mil Into Global Expansion Will Next 10 Years BelongTo Chinese Wines? HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Calif […]

August 22, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Google Exec Joins Vintners’ Alliance Board

NEWS RELEASE Aug. 22, 2013 Contact ahin@vintnersalliance.com – 707-812-1733 Technology combined with with behavioral targeting will transform online wine sales says Vintners’ Alliance  SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Ahin Thomas, president of Vintners’ Alliance (VA) announced today that Jeff Montgomery has joined their board of directors. Montgomery is currently the head of retail at Google, a post […]

August 22, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 21, 2013

TOP NEWS WineDirect Acquires Napa software firm Vintage Wine Estates Buys Clos Pegase NZ: Not Crying Over Spilt Wine Calif Growers Doubt Record Raisin Crop Prediction HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Spain’s Bumper Harvest Eastern U.S. Needs a Sunny September Port Institute raises yield for 2013 CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Sonoma State Launches Wine eCommerce Course Beckstoffer Right, […]

August 21, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Vintage Wine Estates Buys Clos Pegase Winery

Vintage Wine Estates of Santa Rosa has bought Calistoga’s Clos Pegase Winery and Vineyards from founder Jan Shrem. The winery’s Calistoga vineyards and a lease of the Los Carneros  vineyards totaling 450 acres. Vintage Wine Estates said it is planning to expand the distribution network and invest in the facilities.

August 20, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 20, 2013

TOP NEWS Jackson Family Wines buys Oregon winery Arkansas Winery Swept Away by Flood Southern to buy Phoenix Wine & Spirits The next US “big thing” in alcohol may be Chinese Are French Really Wineries Being Used for Money Laundering? Wolf Blass blasts small Aussie producers as ‘parasites’ £300k of wine driven away in UK […]

August 20, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 19, 2013

TOP NEWS Roll Global Buys Vintage Nursery Could liquor stores go the way of bookstores? Sparkling wine to drive Aussie growth HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Grape harvest looms across the Pacific Northwest WA: Champoux Vineyard to start harvesting new wine grape variety Monday Life as a winemaker sure ain’t easy CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Paso vineyard owners […]

August 19, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Roll Global Buys Vintage Nurseries

NEWS RELEASE Received by Wine Industry Insight at 8:50 a.m.today Wasco-Based Producer of Grafted Grapevine Rootstocks Joins Company’s Wine Portfolio Los Angeles, August 16, 2013 – Roll Global, LLC, today announced the acquisition of Vintage Nurseries, LLC, a Wasco, California-based producer of grafted grapevine rootstocks for the wine grape, table grape and raisin markets. “Roll […]

August 16, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 16, 2013

TOP NEWS No Winegrape Shortage: Citi Report Sloppy, Based On Bad Data NZ: Marlborough shaken by 6.6 quake Consumers more brand loyal in recession Bulk wine hits the brakes RIP, two great men of wine HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Central Coast Pinot Noir crop looks big First Harvest for SAfrica KZN wine project TX: Wineries […]

August 16, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Analyst Or Reporter: It’s All About Reliable Data

Whether you’re a journalist or a brokerage analyst, you’re only as good as your sources. And sources are only as good as their data. It pays to have experience and knowledge of the topics you’re covering and some history with sources because those allow you to BS detect statements and to know who has the […]

August 16, 2013 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More