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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

NEWS FETCH – May 21, 2013

TOP NEWS Serve a Minor, Lose Your Winery in One Sale New wine group eyes global growth Winegrowers Face Pesticide Danger Winery Gains & Losses As Consumers Trade Down Restaurant sales at all-time highs Aussie Wine Sales to UK Top Billion Pounds Ag Land Prices Plateauing? What Will The Affordable Care Act Mean To Agriculture? […]

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NEWS FETCH – May 20, 2013

TOP NEWS St. Louis Fed Finds Q1 Farm Income Higher Than Expected The Price/Label Stigma Of “Organic” Is Your Tasting Room Successful? Missouri Senate Nixes Franchise Bill Vote Specialty Crops: Momentum in House Ag Committee Farm Bill Caymus Bold Pinot Bet Pays Off MANAGEMENT When Success Means Being Turned Down by the Bank Days of […]

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Subscription Inflation From Wine Advocate — All It Seems, And Less

$199 subscriptions for the trade? This piece from Dr Vino got me thinking: The Wine Advocate introduces new terms for the trade The more expensive subscription does come with something valuable: a specific license for a specific number of words to use on a shelf talker, web site or brochure: See the T&C for more.  […]

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NEWS FETCH – May 17, 2013

TOP NEWS Spirit Sales Outpace Wine and Beer Restaurant sales up in April Environmentalists Slam New Fed Fracking Rules Study says Gen Y shoppers hiding in plain sight Another UK £4.5m wine fraud China Buyers snapping-up one French chateau per month Why a PE firm is playing in the Willamette Valley wine grab Northwest Acquisitions […]

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NEWS FETCH – May 16, 2013

TOP NEWS Bill Hambrecht: Billionaire’s Cash Flow Issues Have Broad Impacts Kosher Wine Company Victimized by Charity Extortion Plot TTB Says Social Media Must Comply With All Regulatory Ad Requirements Napa’s Goosecross Cellars Bought By Colo Firm House Ag Committee Passes 2013 Farm Bill Senate Passes Water Resources Development Act Parker slams concept of ‘Parkerisation’ […]

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Bill Hambrecht: Billionaire’s Cash Flow Issues Have Broad Impacts

Billionaire financier and vintner William Hambrecht’s recent pattern of behavior toward financial obligations  seems to demonstrate an unwillingness or inability to stand behind personal guarantees of loans or even to make mortgage payments on one of his prized vineyard properties that was almost sold at a foreclosure auction and still remains in jeopardy. The un-met obligations […]

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NEWS FETCH – May 15, 2013

TOP NEWS Truett-Hurst IPO Struggles With Wary Investors, Pricing, Delays The CDC Goes To War Against Wine IRI: Successful Brands Must Fulfill “Good for You” Promise Biggest ever crop for SAfrica WINERY, VINEYARD TRANSACTIONS Bacchus Invests in Pacific NW OR Winery’s 400-acre land grab protects turf Precept Wine buys Yamhela vineyard in Oregon Three Bordeaux […]

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Truett-Hurst IPO Struggles With Wary Investors, Pricing, Delays

The Truett-Hurst IPO continues to struggle for traction in the public markets almost six weeks after the OpenIPO auction-style offering from W. R. Hambrecht commenced. (See Truett-Hurst, Inc. Announces Commencement Of Initial Public Offering). In the past, OpenIPO auctions have taken about two weeks and there was eager anticipation that this one would fall into […]

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NEWS FETCH – May 14, 2013

TOP NEWS House Bill to Cap Farm Payments Joins Senate Version Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Buys LA Vineyard Debate over amnesty looms over efforts to reform immigration laws Wine shortage good for struggling wineries Why cheap wine will never be profitable Consumers to drive transparency in wine Wine skeptic takes on climate change report The […]

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Mea Culpa, Willamette Valley OREGON

Yep, I was in too much of a hurry when I wrote this header for the May 13 issue of News Fetch: As the headline in the body clearly stated – Jackson Family Wines buys another Willamette Valley vineyard – the vineyard was in Oregon, not Washington. Having had a son at the University of Oregon […]

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