FREE! Subscribe to News Fetch, THE daily wine industry briefing - Click Here


Sponsored by:
Banner_Xpur_160x600---Wine-Industry-Insight[63]
InnoVint_WII_ad_portrait
Home » Entries posted by Lewis Perdue (Page 381)
Stories written by Lewis Perdue
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

No Winegrape Shortage: Citi Report Based On Bad, Incomplete Data

Citi’s recent analyst report on Treasury Wine Estates (TWE.AX) is inaccurate and its recommendations in doubt because its foundation data was sloppy and incomplete. What’s more, the best data available indicates that California could reach over-supply conditions by 2017. As Fearmongering In The Vineyard stated, the Citi study’s shrill, apocalyptic vision of impending doom from […]

Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 15, 2013

TOP NEWS Chumash Want Houses On 1,400 Acres Of Santa Ynez Vineyard & Forest Crimson Wine Revenues Up 25%, Net Income Soars U.S. Wine Exports: Value Up, Volume Down Drought Continues To Stress West CALIFORNIA BRIEFS Beckstoffer challenges Napa County wine ordinance use When “A Pope Valley Winery” Isn’t Pope Valley Winery Heffernan Insurance named […]

Read More

Crimson Wine Revenues Up 25%, Net Income Soars

Crimson Wine Group revenues for the past six months have increased 25.18% over the same period in 2013, producing a net income of $2.212 million versus a loss of just over half a million dollars last year. According to the company’s quarterly 10-Q statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, this resulted in six-month […]

Read More

When “A Pope Valley Winery” Isn’t Pope Valley Winery

A few months ago, we had letters because people were confused by the sale of a winery in the Mayacamas Mountains … thinking it was Mayacamas Winery (which was later sold) And the confusion continues as illustrated by the following email from Diana Hawkins, General Manager of Pope Valley Winery: “This in regards to the […]

Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 14, 2013

TOP NEWS Kurniawan: Change Of Lawyer Leads To Delay In Trial Would You Drink Franken-Wine To Avert A Vineyard Apocalypse? Research Shows Why Restaurants Utilize Local Wines French Paradox Confirmed by Another Major Study Farm groups rally support for reform of immigration law Central Valley farmers win initial skirmish with fish Number of Mid-Sized Crop […]

Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 13, 2013

TOP NEWS High-End Wines Face New Challenges In China California raisin grape production up 25.5%, table olives lower Pesky Phthalates Plague Producers Could Sparkling Torrontes Be the Next Big Thing? Push to Reverse Farm Bankruptcy Court Ruling Water the commodity gold of 21st century? HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY LangeTwins kicks off 2013 Lodi harvest Super-Early […]

Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 12, 2013

TOP NEWS Cleavage Creek sold for China exports Optimism In Wine Sales Growth Numbers? Forecasting Wine’s Future Winery Sues Distributor Over Use of Vampire-Related Wine González Byass Acquires Chicago’s Vin Divino July restaurant sales fall $A puts fizz in Australian sparkling wine India’s Growing Taste For Wine Family Farms Get Bigger HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY […]

Read More

González Byass Acquires Chicago’s Vin Divino

González Byass Acquires Chicago’s Vin Divino Previously reported two weeks ago in Wine Industry Insight: Spanish Firm Reportedly Buys IL Distro

Read More

NEWS FETCH – August 9, 2013

TOP NEWS Survey Finds Consumers Continuing Recessionary Buying habits Is The Master Sommelier Diploma Exam A Scam? Moss-Adams Wine Financial Benchmarking Survey Extended Wineries make economic economic use of oil field technology HARVEST 2013/GLOBAL WINE SUPPLY Champagne Yield Up 56% In Bumper Crop Year Hail hits southern Alsace vineyards Napa Valley Growers Expect Ideal Harvest […]

Read More

Wine Industry Financial Benchmarking Survey Extended To Aug 15

From Moss-Adams The largest wine industry survey in the industry in three years, launched earlier this summer, has extended its deadline for responders until August 15. The 2013 Moss Adams Wine Industry Financial Benchmarking Survey is aimed at gathering market, operational and financial data from wineries, vineyards and negociants to determine and evaluate current wine […]

Read More