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NEWS FETCH – March 11, 2013

TOP NEWS Regulators scrap Napa, Sonoma vineyard runoff waivers Talk of big Calif investment talk heats up Oregon wine biz China’s soaring wine consumption slows Wineries pour it on to lure Millennials Well-organised Aussie wine gang’s $500K haul 2013 Consumer Wine Price Hikes Unlikely Winery Excise Tax Refund Claim Against the U.S. Can Proceed Senate, […]

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NEWS FETCH – March 8, 2013

TOP NEWS Cal Wine Tops 200M US Cases, Retailers, Suppliers Wary On Pricing Irrational Exhuberance And The Resveratrol Trap Record Dry Months, Endangered Smelt Build Concerns For Cal Water Mendo Judge Slaps Down Russian River frost protection rules Reducing costs, risks in wine grape replanting The Chinese are coming … to a winery near you […]

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Irrational Exuberance And The Resveratrol Trap

Today’s headlines say it all … From the rational (#1) to the irrational (#3): Scientists shed light on how resveratrol works Health Benefits of Resveratrol in Red Wine Scientists develop red wine “wonder pill” I hate to be a buzzkill, but all of the research confirms two things: People who consume moderate amounts of alcohol […]

March 8, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 7, 2013

TOP NEWS Restaurant sales notably down in Feb Wine Leaders Urge US Funding of EGVM Eradication Aussie Wine’s New Effort To Diversify, Move Upscale Single vote rescues Tenn grocery store wine bill New Family Medical Leave Act Posting Required Mar. 8 Strong dollar, private labels continue to squeeze Aussie winemakers Miguel Torres on Parker, Cava […]

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NEWS FETCH – March 6, 2013

TOP NEWS Trinchero Revamps Sutter Home Brand Italian vineyard may hold clues in Eni bribery probe Senator urges USDA to nix wine-tasting ‘getaways’ amid sequester Farmers watch to gauge impact of sequestration Williams Selyem 9-L bottle sells for $205,000 How Wine Criticism Is Changing Wineries Experiment With Crowd Sourcing HEALTH Study investigates whether red wine […]

March 6, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 5, 2013

TOP NEWS Carneros Vintners Buys Facility From Entertainment Properties Trust Bota Box Globalization Tribidrag: Calif’s Signature Wine? UCLA Prof Says Mediterranean Diet Study Flawed Chinese Are Really Enjoying Their Wine: Treasury CEO Calif wineries Get Guidance on Water Agreements Farmers lose water appeal CBO Finds Farm Bill Wouldn’t Save As Much Predicted INVESTING & AUCTIONS […]

March 5, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Carneros Vintners Buys Its Facility From Entertainment Properties Trust

Carneros Vintners has purchased its million-gallon custom crush facility in southern Sonoma County which it has been leasing from Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE:EPR). Carneros Vintners, Inc. is a division of The Vintners Group of Lodi founded by Dennis Rippey. The sale/leaseback venture is one of the few wine-related ventures that hasn’t turned into a financial […]

March 5, 2013 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 4, 2013

TOP NEWS Nimble Sonoma wine company zips into the fast lane Snow survey confirms driest Calif Jan.-Feb. on record Restaurant operators upbeat on sales, economy Wine Tourism Has Alternate Views Stable, cautious outlook for California wine grapes Aussie Wineries prepared to export for no profit Immigration reform brings warnings from Calif ag The future of […]

March 4, 2013 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Online Content, Prostitution & Disclosure

The following piece from today’s San Francisco Chronicle,  (“Snowcial – social media’s peak networking“) touches on a potentially unsound and possibly illegal practice if done incorrectly: “David Armano, managing director, Edelman Digital: ‘Journalists and newspapers are now doing paid content. The days are over for separation of church and state, editorial and advertising. The lines […]

March 3, 2013 | Filed under Effective Advertising,News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

NEWS FETCH – March 1, 2013

TOP NEWS Wineries pour efforts into targeting younger drinkers Chinese Investors Buy Brentwood Winery UC Davis conference on Ag climate-change threats Argentine wine to be bottled in Pennsylvania 300 bottles of Palmer stolen from château UK sells French wine to pay its bills Californians see economy as being in bad times Diet study cracks open […]

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